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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah—As the final seconds ticked down in the Olympic women’s hockey gold medal game last Thursday, the puck came to Harvard’s Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03, whose Canadian team led the fan-favorite Americans...
...needed only to clear the puck to preserve the victory, but her shot deflected off a U.S. defenseman, bouncing right back to her as time ran out. Lost for the moment, Botterill rid herself of the suddenly irrelevant puck, raised her stick in the air and rushed towards the Canadian net to pile on goaltender Kim St. Pierre...
...Botterill and former Harvard linemate Tammy Shewchuk ’00-’01, the Canadian victory was ecstasy. For their former Harvard teammates from America, Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 and A.J. Mleczko ’97-’99, it was agony...
Botterill and Shewchuk received their gold medals in succession to the tune of John Williams’ Call of the Champions. And when the Canadian national anthem was played, they both sang along...
Canada won the game largely due to the timeliness of its scoring. Canadian forward Cherie Piper, the last player added to the team and a Dartmouth recruit, made the play that set up the first Canadian goal in the game’s first two minutes. Jayna Hefford scored Canada’s third goal on a breakaway with just a second left in the second period...