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...second floor of the Beren Tennis Center—one of the few warm places across the river on that day—the sun trickled through the glass and onto the faces of seniors Kate Gannon and Shelley Maasdorp. They sat in a room designed for a press conference. Three people joined them: their coach, Sue Caples; my roommate and fellow reporter from The Crimson, Pat Coyne; and me. We were sitting at the front of the room talking about the NCAA Tournament field hockey game that had just ended, steps away at Jordan Field...
Gannon and Maasdorp, impressively, didn’t show it. No tears were explicitly shed. In their place, most people might have cried. At one point, I even thought that I might have if I was in their shoes. Not out of total despair, mind you; far, far from it. Instead, just like graduation, just like the end of one part of your life, this game was the end of a significant chapter in a story...
...very happy to have played such a good team,” Maasdorp said. “Just to have made the tournament, and then play against such a good team, I’m very happy. The toughest part was that the score was so high, but I wasn’t trying to pay attention...
...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...
...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...