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To see the frustration on Kate Martin's face after the Harvard women's lacrosse squad dropped a heartbreaking 7-6 loss in this year's NCAA quarterfinals was to see the culmination of four of the hardest, yet happiest, years of her athletic life.
After all, this was the Harvard star who had given possibly more of herself than any other Crimson athlete. In the 12 athletic seasons Martin spent in Cambridge, she spent 10 of them on the Crimson playing fields. And after enduring seemingly endless losing seasons in field hockey and basketball...
"Winning in lacrosse was a pleasant change," says Martin, who took to the lacrosse fields for the first time ever in her junior year. "That last loss was pretty disappointing."
The past two years, however, Martin moved from the indoor basketball confines to the green grass of lacrosse. "Carole [Kleinfelder] had asked me to come out a few times," Martin says of her former basketball coach and current lacrosse coach. "It seemed like a fast game and a lot of...
In the two years she was a member of the Crimson lacrosse squad, Martin anchored a steady defense that became one of the nation's finest. And don't let her tell you--as she so modestly will--that it was others who were chiefly responsible. Coaches and players say...