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After years of long practices and difficult sacrifices, Shewchuk has now found the attention she craved earlier. But she did not think it would come so quickly...
...freshman year at Harvard, Shewchuk led the women's hockey team in practically every offensive category. She amassed 38 goals, breaking the school's previous single season record of 34 held by A.J. Mleczko '97. Her end of the year point total of 53 surpassed another of Mleczko's single season records (51), which was shared with Charlotte Joslin...
...Shewchuk topped the Crimson's scoring list with six power play goals, five short-handed goals, four hat tricks, ten multiple-goals games, and was tied for the lead with three game winning tallies. Even with this impressive list of accomplishments, Shewchuk still considers the season disappointing...
...offense, though, that has allowed Shewchuk to play at the top levels of hockey. Because of her knack for find the back of the net, Shewchuk routinely found her way onto previously all-male teams. She was the first women hockey player to be signed as a reserve for a Midget AAA Canadian team. This Midget league is a feeder for many Junior Canadian team and, to varying degree, the NHL. Learning to play with and against physically larger and faster males has afforded Shewchuk an advantage over most other girls, who played in all-female leagues...
This advantage has not come without costs. She spent her youth playing hockey seven days a week with only boys. Although she made many great friends, and got to play against future NHLers, Shewchuk still was the only girl in the boys club, and was often treated as such...