Jen Botterill and Angela Ruggiero do not have a simple relationship.
For one, they play on arch-rival national hockey squads, and not just any arch-rivals: Botterill skates for Canada and Ruggiero for the United States.
When they are not opposing each other at the Winter Olympics or the World Championships, the two skate together on the starting line-up of Harvard's national champion hockey team, one of the most dominant squads in women's collegiate hockey history.
To top it off, they form two-thirds of a cramped Leverett triple.
Surprisingly, they get along all of the time.
"We never really fight," Botterill said one recent evening in the Leverett dining hall. "We just seem to agree on so much."
Ruggiero sees a great commonality in their life-long pursuits.
"We both want the same things, and we both go out every day and try to get those things," Ruggiero said. "When I'm not working hard and I see Jen out there on the ice, I want to go out there and hustle because she's giving it up. We feed off each other."
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