Her athletic talent is much appreciated at Harvard. But Schutt doesn't pay much attention to formal accolades. Does she remember receiving her All-Ivy lacrosse award?

"I have no clue," Schutt says.

Schutt returned to the building of the women's ice hockey powerhouse. In her first year back with the team, the Crimson posted 14 wins and sneaked into the ECAC quarterfinals, losing to eventual champion UNH 2-1 in overtime.

Schutt was also honored with All-Ivy distinction in lacrosse. However, she also returned to find her eligibility slipping away. She had only one full year left to play.

That is why she now travels across the ice in shoes, rather than in skates.

"It is weird being on the other side," says Schutt.

However, she enjoys having the opportunity to be with such a talented group of athletes.

"I began to cry after their first game because they are just so great," Schutt says. "Harvard women's hockey is finally getting credit for what it has been doing all along. It makes me smile.

Schutt saw the team's development from the start. Her official duties as a volunteer assistant include helping with the strength and conditioning phase of the fall, along with her regular practice attendance.

"I continue to be blown away by not only the accomplishments of the team, but how much they sacrifice for it all," Schutt says. "They play with such heart."

Schutt also carries a full academic load along with her coaching duties. Her schedule is filled with all sorts of courses from poetry to sculpture.

"I am on a way different path than most people at Harvard," Schutt says.

She enjoys that she can pursue many different things at Harvard, but from talking to her, one can tell that she wants more.

"I need for my life to have a balance. I cannot just do only one thing," Schutt says.

This year, along with assistant coaching, she is also writing her honors English thesis on improvisation and the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.

She also performs gigs throughout Boston and Cambridge. She had one at Harvard this fall in Loker Commons, which she advertised in Lowell Lecture Hall at the beginning of Afro-American Studies 10, "Introduction to Afro-American Studies," taught by Fletcher University Professor Cornel West '74.

Schutt stood up with guitar in hand, introduced herself, then her music. When she began Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing," Lowell erupted--everyone was cheering and dancing--including West, who was jamming along to Schutt's beat.

She explains that her role for the women's hockey team is also the entertainer.

"For the team, I am the joker, the goon, the one who keeps everyone laughing," Schutt says.

Tomorrow night, Schutt may be the one entertained--by a national championship.