"They've been great role models," says Gudeman, also of the lacrosse team. "I'll definitely remember them always."

In the fall, it was also time for field hockey. Usually that means it is time for Colligan and Winters to pick up the sticks.

But in 1994 only one of them would be wearing the white jerseys and only one would be the captain. Winters, in a surprising move, decided not to play.

"I wanted a little non-athletic time to myself," Winters says.

Of course, that didn't mean that Winters rode off into the sunset. She still came to games and cheered on the team, even though she wasn't part of the team.

"I would have been upset if she hadn't come around a lot," junior captain-elect Jessica Milhollin says. "but she was great. She was honored to be [chosen as] captain, and if she couldn't give 100 percent she knew that she shouldn't do it."

This left Colligan as the lone captain and senior on the team. The Crimson was coming off a 4-8-3 year and had lost many form the Class of 1994, not to mention Winters. Things would be tough.

"Sarah and I are the exact same way as [Megan and Chelius]," Colligan says. "Sarah is the more soft-type person, and I'm more tough--that's what we lost when she left."

Especially in the early going. In the first couple of games, Harvard's youth showed, as it lost second-half leads against UNH and Providence.

Slowly, however, the team began to gel, Over the last six games, the Crimson beat Yale, Brown and No. 8 Northeastern, while playing well in losses to Ivy champ Princeton, Ivy runner-up Dartmouth and B.C.

Harvard finished 6-9. But it is a team filled with freshmen and sophomores, and that youth means a promising future.

"Megan was the only senior on a young team," says sophomore Mary Eileen Duffy, also of the lacrosse team. "She was patient--a lot of our success came at the end of the season.

"It's a huge loss losing Megan, but we're definitely going to be really good next year."

Morgan's sign now hangs in their room.

"I thought that it would be funny to do," she says. "They're my roommates--it's not something I had many reasons to do."