Everyone, it seems, has his or her own memories.
“I don’t know if you’ll ever see a harder player than Katie Hodel stepping up and winning balls, someone as determined as Lauren Cozzolino, as quick as Spanky [Sato],” Wheaton said. “And Bobby—Caitlin Fisher—playing hurt all year, athletic as anything and then Katie Westfall, she’s one of the best players ever. She’s just really technical, works hard.”
But the class of 2004 didn’t just distinguish itself on the field.
“As a group, they’ve been our leaders,” Wheaton said. “They just work like crazy, have a great attitude—like, ‘We want to enjoy this, but we want to enjoy it by working really hard.’ And they set that example for anybody.
“I know it sounds a little cliché, but they leave a stamp on us and if we can follow their lead, if we can adopt that attitude and maintain it in the future, then our program is going in just the right direction.”
—Staff writer Alan G. Ginsberg can be reached at aginsber@fas.harvard.edu.