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Down 4-3 with time running out in the NCAA Championship game, the Crimson was desperate for an answer. In fitting fashion, Corriero had one last shot to keep Harvard’s title hope alive. With four seconds remaining, she received the puck at center ice, turned to her left, and fired a shot from the blue line—only to see it blocked by Minnesota defenseman Lyndsay Wall...
...clock was winding down I took that shot and I knew it had only a one-in-a-million chance of it actually hitting the net, let alone going in,” Corriero recalls. “And I actually fell after that shot and thought, ‘Oh my gosh, not again.’ It’s heart wrenching—extremely sad and really emotional. But you’ve got to just get back...
Though she admits a national championship has been her ultimate goal for the past four years, Corriero doesn’t wonder “what if.” Instead, she’s ready to walk away from the game...
...when junior tri-captain Julie Chu forced home the game-winner with 7:32 left in the third extra session it came on the kind of picturesque 2-on-1 breakaway the nervous crowd had hoped for. Freshman Sarah Vaillancourt slotted a pass ahead to tri-captain Nicole Corriero, who had scored all four of the Crimson’s goals to that point. Charging up the right side, Corriero dished at the last possible second to Chu, who buried the puck top shelf to end the longest game in NCAA tournament history...
...conditioning came in as a factor,” Corriero said. “And Julie was able to find that bit of energy and make a sick move...