38 honored with Dean’s Distinction
Harvard may attract its fair share of 4.0 students, but a 4.0 employee is harder to come by. That fact wasn’t lost on Nathan Fry, associate director of athletics, when he read the evaluations submitted by student athletes of James Frazier, director of strength and conditioning for Harvard’s 35 sports teams. Every player on Harvard’s basketball teams had rated their experience with Frazier, who develops and oversees more than 1,000 athletes’ conditioning and strength training, a perfect 4.0. His score among the 110-member football team was an impressive 3.94. “You don’t see that with our best coaches, and I bet you don’t see that with professors on campus,” Fry said of Frazier’s evaluations. “I thought, ‘Holy cow, this guy is doing something really special for our department.’ ” But it wasn’t just the raw numbers that inspired Fry to nominate Frazier for Dean’s Distinction, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) award honoring...