Word: mleczko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mleczko has been playing hockey since she was six years old, when she approached her hockey-coach father and asked to play. During her elementary school career, when "it wasn't normal for girls to play hockey," male teammates and opponents would give her a hard time for playing on boys' teams...
...fall of 1993, Mleczko started as a Harvard first-year and new member of the women's hockey team--a relatively new, struggling program. Her first few years on the team were a struggle for the program as a whole, she says...
...lost a lot of games by one goal," says Mleczko. "We didn't have a lot of personnel...We didn't have stamina really...
...Mleczko, who played on the women's national team for the first time during her junior year, left Harvard in September 1996, at the beginning of her senior year, to focus on hockey full time...
...much of the thrill of our two weeks over in Nagano was because of the buildup" of the tour, Mleczko says. The Olympic experience--from marching in the opening ceremonies, to eating in the dining hall among famous Olympians, to winning the first-ever women's hockey gold medal--was amazing, according to Mleczko...