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Female Rookie of the Year: Hana Peljto

By the final weeks of the season, Peljto was starting again.

In Harvard's final game-a battle for second-place against Dartmouth-Peljto was given the privilege of starting alongside the four departing Crimson seniors.

Peljto scored 25 points that night to provide the seniors with the best gift they could possibly ask for-a sweep of Dartmouth in their final season. They had split with Dartmouth each of the previous three years, including the famed 1998 season in which they upset top-seeded Stanford.

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Peljto's second-half, 18-point surge made the Crimson lead wide enough for all of the seniors to re-enter in the game's final minutes.

"Look how young my team is, so I'm proud," Delaney-Smith said. "There's a great future for us."

While Peljto showed signs of dominance this season, no one would doubt that her best basketball is yet to come. With already-contributing freshmen Tricia Tubridy and Jennifer Lee alongside Peljto for the next three years, the future has seemingly limitless potential.

"I'm definitely looking forward to my next three years of basketball here," Lee said.

Those 5,000 Crimson fans could not agree more.

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