In addition to the all-afternoon studio labs of her Visual Environmental Studies concentration, she has worked in the dorm crew office for four years. She considers it a welcome break from the grind of the hockey schedule.

"I need the people I meet randomly--through dorm crew--to balance my life," she says. "I like having both halves."

Stickles refuses to think of herself as a Harvard jock.

"I'm not typical. I don't go to the D.U. I don't go to finals clubs," she says.

"Stick"--a nickname given during her freshman year--laughs off and denies her reputation as the team's morale builder.

However, Stickles concedes that she and Whyte push the team hard.

"During practice I expect other people to play at their best. I try to keep everyone skating," she says.

Hockey won't end for Stickles with her diploma. She is currently looking for a teaching position at a preparatory school in which she can teach art and coach hockey and soccer.

Stickles, who helped to bring home the Ivy League championship during her freshman year, concedes that "the men's team is better, and draws larger crowds, and they deserve it."

But Stickles is keeping up her defense for women's hockey as she finally steps off the Crimson rink.

"Women's hockey is a varsity sport and should be treated as such. With respect."