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W is for Wookie: Two freshmen on the team--Valerie Nellen and Julie Hopkins--are knows as The Wookies to their teammates. These are two to watch for the future.
Several times this year one Wookie has set up the other for a goal. It happened three times in a 20-6 victory by the Harvard B-team over Brown's B-team.
Like so many New Englanders, Harvard women's water polo Coach Chris Hafferty has trouble saying the letter "r" ("I pahked my cah"). So whenever he says the word "rookie," it comes out "wookie."
"Leean is our `Wookie Mom,'" says Hopkins, a native of Palo Alto, Cal. "When we get out of the pool after scoring a goal, she looks like a proud mother."
"Without them," Nellen says, "there'd be dead lumps of Wookie on the bottom of the pool."