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...honest, there turned out to be plenty to be genuinely happy about. There were records forged, reached and almost broken. Maasdorp nearly broke the school record for points in a season, and junior Jen McDavitt became the all-time leader in assists. Gannon, the calm captain, broke the previous record, and stayed just one behind McDavitt’s mark. Harvard became Ivy League champion—breaking a historic, dominant Princeton streak—and made the NCAA Tournament. Even in this game the effort was unflagging and worthwhile...
...have a lot of pride at the way that we did that,” Gannon said of her teammates’ effort. “There wasn’t a second of that game that we weren’t trying and that we weren’t going for it, and that takes a lot of character...
...Mina Pell ’04), their all-time record-holder for shutouts (Katie Zacarian ’04), and Harvard’s first-ever first-team All-American, the best defensive player in school history (Jen Ahn ’04). And in their collective place stood Gannon and Maasdorp, together with forward Tiffany Egnaczyk, netminder Aliaa Remtilla, and back-up goalie Anne Haig. A group largely undistinguished before this year...
...such losses again would hurt, Caples told us. Yes, because of points and defense, but also because of leadership. Because she would lose people she cared for in Gannon and Maasdorp and the rest of the seniors, certainly, as well. All of them, Caples must have realized—because she had been through this process so many times before—were people who might stop playing the sport of field hockey altogether as soon as their time at Harvard was through.Yet as the sun kept shining, in a symbolic, oddly cinematic sort of way, it turned out that...
When the interview was over and it was time for the trek home, maybe Gannon and Maasdorp did start crying, at least a little bit. Harvard still lost. They and the other seniors were done with their collegiate and probably post-collegiate athletic careers in one fell swoop. Few things, if any, could change that reality. The snow would still be on the ground when they went outside. Life would progress, whether they were athletes...