“He always made sure I was a well-rounded kid,” Marissa says. “He always reminded me that, yeah, I’m a hockey player, but I’m primarily a student and I want to be a good person.”

“We didn’t really talk much about how you’re supposed to be or how you’re supposed to act,” Rich adds. “She just took it from people around her...She was there when I was talking to the boys, and she’s the one that sucked it all in.”

The lessons Marissa absorbed certainly have had a positive impact for her on the ice as well. The freshman earned two assists in her first collegiate game last Friday night against Yale, and at Harvard the Framingham-native gets to play in the same city in which her dad was beloved for so many years.

“I think she’s where she wanted to be, and that’s really what’s kind of cool because not many people get that chance,” Rich remarks.

As she has grown older, Marissa says that she has developed a newfound respect for her father’s career and the team he played for.

“I consider myself a Red Sox fan,” she says. “Now I know what it means, how hard he worked for it.”

And as Marissa’s pride in her father has grown, so has Rich’s for his daughter.

“She’s well-rounded as a person,” he says. “She knows where athletics fit; she knows where academics fit. She’s driven to be the best she can be at whatever she’s doing.”

As one might say, like father, like daughter.

—Staff writer Scott A. Sherman can be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu.