Zotter likely also helped her draft position with her play at the week-long WUSA combine preceding the draft.

"It was up-and-down, but I finished on a really good note," Zotter said. "We lost our game 6-1, but I scored our only goal."

Between graduation and the combine, Zotter spent time traveling abroad before returning home.

"I spent a couple of months in Malaysia and Australia," Zotter said. "I brought my cleats with me and played pick-up games in Malaysia every day with the indigenous people. Then I came home on Halloween and trained hard."

Neither Larson, the former Harvard sweeper, nor 2000 Harvard volunteer assistant coach Carrie Moore were among the 65 players picked yesterday in the first eight rounds of the draft. They will eagerly await the remaining seven rounds of the draft, which resumes at 8 a.m. today.

"I'm confident Jessie will be drafted tomorrow," Zotter said. "There's no way to predict who's going to be selected when. There were players projected in the first and second rounds who still haven't been picked yet."

Before today's draft, each of the eight WUSA rosters included three players from the initial U.S. National Team player allocations and two players selected from the foreign draft held a month ago.