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...junior guard from Hamilton, N.Y., had once been set on attending Princeton, where she was guaranteed a spot on the team. Murphy had offers from other schools, but when she came on an unofficial visit to Harvard the summer before her senior year of high school, Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was not encouraging...
...basically were very honest with her,” Delaney-Smith said. “I was carrying 14 [players] at the time, and I didn’t want 15. I didn’t want 14. I said, ‘As much as I love your game, as much as I think you can have a career here, your first year, I’m not going to carry 15 players on varsity. I just don’t want to coach...
Even without Delaney-Smith’s endorsement, Harvard admitted her as a student. She came back to Cambridge to check out the school even though basketball wasn’t a sure thing...
...freshman fall, Murphy played through preseason, with Delaney-Smith maintaining that she would be on junior varsity for the year. Although Delaney-Smith did not want her to try out for varsity, Murphy did anyway...
...lack of a uniform wasn’t the only thing that stood out. Murphy needed only one tryout to convince Delaney-Smith to take another guard onto her loaded team...