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Kirkland House teams have dominated intramural play this year, and like its unbeaten football squad, K-House's hockey team has a number of good to excellent players. But McNealy insists that Wood is as talented as many of them. "For a power play she would come off the ice for some better players," he says. Yet, for the most part; Wood was worth far more to the team than her only near score--a goal-post deflection she obtained in a recent match against Win-throp--would indicate...
...last few games," Wood says. "They've been passing to me much more. I think its because I've been able to switch directions more frequently." Wood credits her skating ability to ten years of pre-college figure work. "I sure wish I could use my figure skates now," she says...
...Wood says she didn't brandish the stick for any cause. "I wasn't out there to prove anything." She says, however, that she is "hoping that more girls would play. I would like to play on a girls' line or maybe a girls' team." There are lots of girls teams now, she adds, noting that Dartmouth, Boston College and Boston University all have their own women's squads...
...anything is surprising about Wood it's the dearth of recognition she gets off and on the ice. Asked about Wood's singularity on a team of men, teammate Chuck Cook never went beyond an assessment of her skating ability except to say, "It's not a big issue. It didn't nother...
About her anonymity, Wood says. "I didn't think a lot of people thought I was a girl." A lot of her opponents didn't go after her in the same way as others, she says. But she attributes the hands-off policy to her towering linemates. "I was well protected by a lot of big guys," she says...