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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...
MARCH 27, 1999 The Harvard women's hockey team defeated UNH 6-5 in overtime in the AWCHA national championship game. Co-captain A.J. Mleczko '99 assisted Jennifer L. Botterill '02 with the game-winner at 8:01 of the sudden-death period...
That was Botterill's fourth goal of the weekend and earned her the AWCHA Tournament MVP Award. And all four goals by the ECAC Rookie of the Year came on assists from Mleczko--the ECAC Player of the Year...
...Mleczko did everything she physically could to make the championship-winning goal possible--skate and use her stick. That was because she had crashed into the boards with 30 seconds left in the second period, partially separating her shoulder and tearing several shoulder muscles...
...Mleczko's assist was the culmination of a very successful week that began when she won the Patty Kazmaier Award as the national player of the year. With the Kazmaier Award, the national championship, and the Harvard career scoring record with 257 points, The Crimson's Athlete of the Week will graduate with the title of the greatest player in Harvard women's hockey history...