Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's hockey team and No. 2 UNH were tied 5-5 after 8:01 of overtime in the AWCHA national championship game when Mleczko, the Crimson's co-captain, won the puck in the left corner. She then raced along the goal line and deftly slid the puck across the crease to freshman winger Jen Botterill, who slammed home the title-winning goal...
...remember the injury pretty clearly," Mleczkosaid. "I was coming into the zone with a full headof steam going around a UNH defenseman and shetook my feet out from under me. I was trying toget the puck out and my arm was underneath me in afunny position when I fell, so my shoulder waspretty exposed when I hit the boards. I rememberthinking that I had to get my head out of the wayand that I had to move or it would have lookedterrible to my parents...
...Puck chose pediatric infectious diseases as her specialty, but the growth of the AIDS epidemic drove her to genetic research. An associate professorship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine led to her current post. And Puck says she's happy with where she's been...
...Puck says in the medical research field, an Ivy League education carries far less weight than the quality of a researcher's work...
Though the Harvard name or network may not have greased the wheels for Puck, she says her college education led her to a job she loves--even if she didn't take the straightest path to get there...