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This is the word used by Harvard women's hockey Coach Katey Stone when asked to describe how Allison "A.J." Mleczko '99 felt after winning the gold medal in this year's installment of the Olympic Winter Games...
Mleczko was one of a trio of major competitors in Nagano, Japan this February, all of whom are either Harvard alumni or current students. Sandra Whyte '92 accompanied Mleczko on the United States' gold medal-winning hockey team in the 1998 games, also playing a key role for the squad...
...gold medal game, it was Sandra Whyte's time to shine. Whyte closed out the U.S. team's flawless march by assisting on the first two goals, then sealing the golden bid on an empty-net goal with eight seconds remaining in the game...
...Mleczko, the road to Nagano was not paved with gold. Mleczko took a two-year absence from school to hone her talent, getting bigger and physically stronger for the international game...
...those medals hang about the necks of Whyte and Mleczko, the hockey pair has shown that they possess plenty of backbone to support them. We are the ones who should truly be "crazed" for these young women who refused to give up on the pursuit that struck gold...