While Dukes will return next season, the Crimson will lose four seniors: Kennifer, Purcell, Lizzie Abbott, and Monica Zdrojewski.
“I think we, as a [senior] class and as [a team], have been building toward this point for a while,” Purcell says. “We have grown a lot in the past year, and we have been building on our improvements from previous years.”
Until this year, the Crimson had not boasted a winning record in back-to-back years since the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
“We brought the program further than any other year during my time here at Harvard,” Kennifer says. “And I think we left the program with great momentum going into the following years.”
“We have four seniors who have done a lot for the team and the program,” Minnis said after the final game of the season. “This will go down in my mind as one of the best teams of all time.”
—Staff writer Emily Rutter can be reached at erutter@college.harvard.edu.