"When I came back, I got sick for weeks, and missed a few tournaments, and had trouble getting back into squash," she said.

Fortunately for the Crimson, Fraiberg recovered from these set-backs to lead her team to its second consecutive national championship and Howe Cup. But Fraiberg was unable to completely regain her form from the year before, losing the individual national competition to an old nemesis and childhood friend, Margot Greene, in the semifinals.

Fraiberg's final defeat last spring to her cherished friend and opponents set the stage for what has been perhaps Fraiberg's sweetest year to date in her squash career.

In classic form, Fraiberg reasserted herself at the apex of collegiate women's squash this spring while leading the Crimson to its third consecutive national championship. Fraiberg put a glorious exclamation point on her fabulous career with a rewarding triumph over Greene in the individual national championship final.

"I was playing a friend--well, rival--in the championship," Fraiberg said. "It was a great all-around experience for me."

Now that Fraiberg has finalized her Harvard squash career and accomplished everything in the collegiate sport that there has been to accomplish, you'd think that she would hang up her raquet.

But alas, you would be mistaken. Fraiberg is currently training as hard as ever for the National Tournament of Champions, an April open invitational tournament sponsored by Reebok, and she is now entertaining thoughts of playing on the professional tour.

"Squash has been such an important part of my life," she said. "I just don't know if I want to let go of it yet."