The Harvard mens soccer team will be suspended for the rest of its season after an investigation found the team continually made vulgar and sexual comments about members of the womens soccer team.The Harvard Crimson student newspaper?first reported the schools decision.Athletic director Robert L. Scalise wrote in an email to Harvard student-athletes that he decided to cancel the rest of the teams season because the practice, in which women were rated on their perceived sexual appeal and physical appearance, appeared to be more widespread across the team and has continued beyond 2012, including in 2016.As a direct result of what Harvard Athletics has learned, we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 mens soccer season, Scalise wrote. The team will forfeit its remaining games and will decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year.On Friday, the mens soccer team issued an apology in The Harvard Crimson.We accept responsibility for the mistakes and serious lapses in judgment that have led us here, and, in addition to accepting the sanctions from the Athletic Department, are shifting our focus toward the concrete actions we can take to address the fundamental issue of sexism in our community, the team said in its apology.The school had been investigating a document that was circulated by the 2012 mens soccer team. The document, which comprised sexual comments about members of the womens soccer team, was uncovered last week by The Harvard Crimson.University president Drew Faust said in a statement that she was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 mens soccer team were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few individuals.The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvards view that both the teams behavior and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community, Faust wrote.Rakesh Khurana, the dean of Harvard, released a statement Thursday evening saying he was saddened and disappointed to learn that the extremely offensive scouting report produced by the 2012 mens soccer team continued through the current season.The document rated the attractiveness of recruits on the womens team and included lewd comments about them. Members of the mens team called it their scouting report and circulated it online.Faust said the review is separate from any action by the schools Title IX office, which investigates complaints of sexual assault and harassment.Earlier this week, members of the womens team wrote a letter in the Crimson criticizing the document, saying they were appalled?that female athletes who are told to feel empowered and proud of their abilities are so regularly reduced to a physical appearance. The letter also expressed hope that the report would lead to productive conversation and action on Harvards campus, within collegiate athletic teams across the country, and into the locker room that is our world.The mens team is in first place in the Ivy League. It will forfeit its remaining games and decline any opportunity for postseason play.?A win against Columbia on Saturday would have clinched an automatic NCAA bid for Harvard.?The Associated Press contributed to this report. 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Shes the real deal.***Every bone in 13-year-old Khalia Laniers body threatened to snap. Before practice for her club team in Scottsdale, Arizona -- a team that seemed allergic to winning -- Laniers teammate, smiling and giggling, bragged about a hair bow she made in school earlier that day.I cant believe that we have not won ONE game, Lanier exploded. And youre talking about a BOW that you made in school!Her coach blew the whistle. Khalia, get out.We go home, and I said, Thats not your job. Thats what the coach says, said Laniers mother, Rose Lanier, who made her daughter apologize to the team.Shell do everything she can to win, Rose said. Shell figure it out.Lanier, the 2016 Gatorade national volleyball player of the year, a two-time club national champion and a one-time high school state champion, couldnt have predicted USC would barely squeak into the NCAA tournament. Nobody could have.The Trojans (18-13), who finished in a tie for seventh in the Pac-12, will face Hawaii (22-5) in the first round Friday.As the replacement for All-American Samantha Bricio, Lanier had been tabbed to help the team forget its shocking 2015 loss to Kansas in the regional final as the No. 1 seed. Without a seed this year, the Trojans enter the tournament in a far different place.Lanier, the only freshman to rank among the top 10 in the Pac-12 in kills (4.01) and points per set (4.44), has taken each loss personally -- USC closed the season with three consecutive defeats.When weve had some Come to Jesus meetings, Haley said, shes not been afraid to stand up and identify what she thinks is a problem and how we might solve it, and thats garnered a lot of respect from a lot of the older players.But even as Lanier has racked up 15 double-doubles, including a career-high 27 kills and 12 digs against Washington State last week, she often feels shes not contributing enough.She can have 25 kills in a game, freshman opposite Daley Krage said, but then be like, Wow. Those three errors I made really hurt the team. I cant make those again. Nobody is as tough on Lanier as she is on herself.My coaches try to tell me, Khalia, youre just a freshman and youre doing so well, said Lanier, who requests scouting reports not just on opponents, but on herself, and Im the one thats always pushing myself to achieve more.This is the part of Lanier that builds her up and brings her down -- and only she knows how to harness that power.***The 18-year-old Lanier has always had big shoes to fill, because before Samantha Bricio there was Bob Lanier. Her father, the former Detroit Piston, the NBA Hall of Famer.As expectations stuck to her like Velcro, Lanier dominated all-boys basketball leagues. Once, 11-year-old Lanier begged her father to rebound for her so she could watch the ball swim through the net.All you want to do is shoot. Thats not what basketballs about. Its about drills, saiid Bob, eye to eye with his daughter, who had sprouted to 6 feet.dddddddddddd Do you really want this?Knowing she didnt have that deep-down love for hoops -- the kind that tugs at you at night -- she softened the moment: You know what? I think I want to be a cheerleader.What she really wanted was to make a name for herself -- out of the spotlight. She excelled at gymnastics but was told she was too tall. She had great coordination in soccer but didnt pursue it. She liked softball, but it was too slow.Following her sister, she fell in love with volleyball, but the microscope remained. Even as a seventh-grader, when Haley first saw her, she commanded attention. When she jumped? She just kept going up, Haley said.By 13, Lanier joined Arizona Storm VBC under coach Terri Spann, a team that trained 10 hours a week. Struggling with push-ups and once benched for forgetting sneakers, Lanier wanted to quit.But she kept coming back, surpassing each challenge. Once, Spanns brother-in-law, former NFL player Toby Wright, asked Lanier to push his blue and white Hummer across the parking lot while he sat inside.She could push that Hummer all on her own, Spann said. Khalia wanted to be the best.But when she felt she was falling short of that goal, she berated herself. The fear followed her to the classroom, convinced shed fail despite earning straight As.Lanier morphed into the nations No. 1 recruit but sometimes suffered mental breakdowns and struggled shaking off mistakes.It was such a roller coaster, trying to overcome the people who are on the other side of the net, as well as the thoughts that were in my head, Lanier said, just constantly feeding myself negative feelings about giving up was just so unhealthy.Rose, who had driven enough miles to practices and games to understand her daughters silence as a language of its own, sensed something was wrong one day.I dont want to play anymore, Khalia said. Im done.She was tired of being depended on for the epic kill or the right words in huddles, exhausted from club, high school and international commitments. She wanted to be a normal kid.The next day, Lanier asked her mom for her bag.For what? Rose asked.I have practice, Khalia said, smiling. Im OK.Khalias not one to give up, Rose said. She goes through a lot, but she wont give up on anything.***A light crept under Laniers bedroom around 3 a.m., the morning of a state semifinal against Horizon, a team Laniers Xavier College Preparatory squad hadnt beaten the previous four meetings.Khalia, what are you doing? Rose asked.Im watching film. Ive figured it out, Mom.Lanier, then a sophomore, dominated and led her team to victory in four. Moving on to the finals against Hamilton, she posted 10 kills in the fifth set to give her team the win.She took over, Xavier coach Lamar-Renee Bryant said. I think she got it: OK, I can lead, no matter what. I can lead with my play. I can lead with my voice. I can lead with my mind. Now at USC, counted on to lead more than ever, Lanier has learned to befriend the harsh voice inside her head -- to use it as an ally, a secret power.Against Stanford in October, facing a block of two players taller than 6-6 for the first time, she felt herself falling short. I had a mental breakdown, said Lanier, who had 11 kills and five digs. She devoured the game film for hours.Putting her team on her back, Lanier rose to the physicality of the blocks in the next meeting against the Cardinal in November, posting 18 kills and 12 digs.I didnt play perfect, but I played better than I did the first time, Lanier said. As Ive gotten older I think Ive tried to not put as much pressure on myself for messing up. You just have to move onto the next play. ' ' '