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...Olympic athletes with Harvard ties, two of them—Canadian women’s hockey player Tammy Lee Shewchuk ’00-’01 and U.S. women’s hockey player Julie Chu ’06—were entering their first Olympics. Both were overwhelmed by the country-by-county parade of athletes...
Shewchuk, who took a one-year leave from Harvard to try out for the 1998 Canadian Olympic Team, had to live for four years with the dissatisfaction of being one of the final cuts. But she continued to be a consistent contributor to the Canadian National Team in the years following the Olympics, and on Friday, she finally got her chance to march...
Both the United States and Canadian Olympic women’s hockey teams are stocked with Harvard players: forwards Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03 and Tammy Shewchuk ’00-’01 on Team Canada, and forward Julie Chu ’06 and defensemen A.J. Mleczko ’97-’99 and Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 on Team USA. Just three years ago, Ruggiero, Mleczko, Shewchuk and Botterill all teamed up to lead Harvard to a national title...
Before the United State’s eight-game winning streak began in October, the majority of prognosticators favored the Canadians. After all, this is the same Canadian team that has won all but two major international championships throughout its history, the two exceptions being the 1997 Three Nations Cup and the 1998 Olympics. Canada has won all seven International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships...
...most recent of those championships in April of 2001, goals from two familiar Harvard faces—Shewchuk and Botterill—lifted a Canadian team that had been practicing together for just two weeks to a 3-2 victory over a U.S. team that had been training together in Lake Placid for seven months. Botterill was named World Championship MVP after leading the tournament with eight goals scored...