“I have an amazing bunch of kids and they are the hardest workers I have ever seen,” Shewchuk said. “At the end of the day, that is all you can really ask of your team.”

What does Shewchuk’s former college coach think of Shewchuk the coach? Stone said it would take some time to find out, but she was able to identify Shewchuk’s strengths.

“She’s a pretty intense kid, so I’m sure she’ll bring out the most competitiveness in everybody else,” Stone said.

Botterill also showed confidence in Shewchuk’s coaching abilities.

“I think she’ll be a great coach,” Botterill said. “She knows a lot about the game, she’s an easy person to get along with, she knows how to teach young kids and she’ll be a great influence on them.”

Though Shewchuk may be missing this year’s World Championships, her playing career is not over. She competed alongside Botterill in a national program camp in January.

But while she’s off the ice for now, Shewchuk will continue pulling for Botterill to continue shattering records and leading Harvard in its bid for a second national championship.

“She is an amazing player and a good friend,” Shewchuk said. “I think what she has done is awesome.”

—Staff writer David R. De Remer can be reached at remer@fas.harvard.edu.