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Though the Mleczko doll bears her name, it’s debatable as to whether it is a better resembles to her likeness than the Barbie. USA Hockey did little to distinguish the anatomy of the female bobbleheads from the male ones...
...Mleczko wasn’t the only Harvard name to earn a shout out at Wednesday night’s festivities. Harvard crew coach Harry Parker earned an emotional thank you from rowing legend Anita DeFrantz towards the end of her acceptance speech for the New England Women’s Fund’s 2002 Billie Jean King Pioneer Award...
BOSTON—Harvard alum Allison Jaime (A.J.) Mleczko ’97-’99 is no stranger to honors—with two Olympic medals, a national championship, a wedding ring and a USA Hockey bobblehead doll already to her name. Yet her induction into the New England Women’s Sports Hall of Fame Tuesday night was a unique achievement in its own right...
...allure of the event held at the Sheraton Boston, besides its fundraising goals for women in sports through the New England Women’s Fund, was its bringing together of influential female athletes ranging from 1940s professional baseball players to the Olympic medalists of today. Mleczko said she was amazed to be in presence of such pioneers, yet no one from the Harvard ice hockey camp would be shy to classify her as a trail blazer herself...
...When Mleczko entered Harvard almost a decade ago—her family name already a legacy in field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse—there was no Olympic women’s ice hockey, no NCAA women’s ice hockey and no Level I funding from the Harvard athletic department. Mleczko’s amazement at the rapid growth in her sport was the theme of her induction speech...