"Overall, in my first two years at Lehigh, I really felt that I gained something," she says, "but I needed a change. I was getting stale."

"I know that for some people it doesn't work out here (at Harvard), but all I could think about were the resources and the diversity. I wanted it academically as well as athletically."

Harvard has been everything that Laurie Gregg expected, and her experience on the women's soccer team has been especially satisfying. The team's record as they head into the semi-finals of the Easterns tomorrow stands at 11-4. Laurie has been a big part of that 11-4 record, with nine goals, six assists and all-around excellent play.

"It's been good because it's an opportunity that was never there. The team's treated with respect here, it's a lot of fun and the people are really great," she says.

Laurie was a two-year varsity player in both basketball and lacrosse at Lehigh and is hoping to continue at Harvard in those sports as well. That's a heavy load, with two lab courses, two reading courses, and having to cook your own meals in an off-campus apartment.

And there are other interests besides academics and athletics. Laurie will take a ceramics course second semester at the Radcliffe Pottery Studios, an option that she didn't have at Lehigh, which has no arts program. She did ceramics all through high school, but had to stop when she went to college. She also does a lot of photography, when she's got the time. And writing.

"I like to write poetry and prose," she says. "I would sort of like to write a book."

So where does Laurie Gregg go from here? Her current dream is to go to Colorado next week for the first-ever women's intercollegiate soccer national tournament. Her future interests lie in sports medicine, possibly orthopedics; but before that, there will be some more soccer, maybe in Europe, or, as she hopes, on the not-yet-formed U.S. national team.

"Soccer is great. I love soccer. I love to work at it--and I could work at it all the time."