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DeFrantz’s international rowing career began with the 1976 Olympics, the first year women’s rowing was offered. Parker was the coach who selected DeFrantz for that team.
Her lengthiest anecdote described her speaking arrangements at elementary schools and how her reception changed between the 1998 and 2002 Olympics. After her Olympic debut, little boys would question she would choose to play ice hockey as a young girl. Four years later, the commonly asked question became, â?...
Because of the high visibility of the sport’s debut in the 1998 Olympics, her membership on the U.S. gold medal team that year naturally leads off her resume. Her return to Harvard to win a national championship the following year, though not as widely publicized as Olympics...
Mleczko decided to take two years off from Harvard in 1997 and 1998 to try out for the Olympics. Harvard coach Katey Stone, who earned position prior to Mleczko’s second season, was encouraging to her top player. Stone promised that regardless of whether she made the team...
Stone did not disappoint, bringing in strong classes highlighted by future Canadian Olympian Tammy Shewchuk ’00-’01 in 1996 and Angie Francisco ’01 in 1997, each of whom cracked Mleczko’s single-season Harvard scoring records in their freshman...