“[Pell] has a lot of speed, so I could play her on any wing,” ice hockey coach Katey Stone says. “Defensively, she’s smart. She keeps it real simple…she understands her role, she understands what she’s good at and she knows what her limitations are. So, she does exactly what you ask her to do. She plays a sort of dot-to-dot hockey, and that’s what we do.”

Pell brings more to the team than her direct style.

“She brings an intensity to the game, locker room and practice that everyone around her feeds off of,” junior teammate Kat Sweet says.

Sweet adds that Pell’s level of commitment is tremendous, as she chooses not to take the time off between seasons that is offered to dual-sport athletes.

“That’s just a testament to her dedication,” Sweet says.

“I think it’s hard for a player to play a fall sport and miss the better part of the conditioning that we focus on in the fall, but she’s done it all four years,” Ruggiero says. “She is an athlete. If you give her the ball, she’s going to take it. If you put her out on the ice, she’s going to do everything she can.”

As her field hockey career draws to a close and the women’s hockey season nears, Pell is excited about the possibility of playing in two NCAA tournaments to end the final chapter in her Harvard athletic career.

“The NCAAs are always interesting,” she says.