With the end of the conference schedule in sight, the Crimson looks towards its ultimate goal of the season: a national championship. The only previous national title for the program was back in 1999, when the Crimson won the AWCHA national championship. The AWCHA structure was replaced by the current NCAA tournament in 2001. Since then, Harvard has gone on to appear in the NCAA finals three times, the last of which was in 2005, but has never come home with a victory.
“It’s definitely in the back of our minds to go for a national championship,” Bellamy said. “That’s our main goal. But we know that until then, we just have to take it one game at a time. Coming up here we have some big games against some conference opponents.”
But even as the Crimson amasses more wins and bolsters its national ranking, the team’s ultimate weapon—its mentality—is unchanged.
“The biggest thing is that we keep our humility about us,” Fry said. “We talked about this today, we don’t let what anybody else says, or blogs, or any of that kind of crap get to our heads. This is about us.”
“We’ve promised ourselves our focus will be on our next game,” Bellamy said. “Our biggest game is our next game, and that’s RPI tomorrow.”
--Staff writer Brenna R. Nelsen can be reached at brennanelsen@college.harvard.edu