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With 100 points this season, Harvard's shortest skater is second only to the 5'11 Mleczko among the nation's leading scorers. Shewchuk admits that her official height of 5'4 is "generous," but she makes up for her lack of size with her quickness and her ability to light the lamp at a frightening pace...
...never think of size as a disadvantage because women's hockey is still a very open, fluid game," Shewchuk says. "I played full-contact a couple of years ago with boys in Montreal who were 6'2 or bigger, so size doesn't intimidate me. When you're short you have to be fast, and I like to think of my smallness as sneakiness. I can slip behind people a little easier than taller players. In some ways I have to take two strides when everyone else only needs one, but you learn to get past that and I haven...
...Shewchuk can also get past any defenseman in the country, except maybe a few of her teammates. Once she gets the puck in the offensive zone, it's usually a matter of seconds before she has walked around her defender into the seam and let fly a shot on goal...
...like starting off at the halfboards regardless of which side of the ice I'm on because I like having room," Shewchuk says. "Other people on the team are better shooting on net from outside but I'm better suited to work around the zone and walking the seam allows me to do that. By walking the seam I can keep my eyes on the other side so I can see my teammates at the point...
...some talented teammates to work with. Harvard leads the ECAC in scoring, and most of that scoring comes form a first line that can do whatever it wants on the ice. Mleczko, Shewchuk and Botterill are the top three scorers in the country and all three can create scoring opportunities or finish what their line-mates started...