Also competing for Harvard were sophomore Lita Guo, captain Christine Lin, and junior Anne Cheng.
Comprising the remainder of the field was No. 48 LSU, No. 30 North Carolina State, No. 44 Augusta, North Florida, Denver, New Mexico, Wichita State, and Fairleigh Dickinson.
“Next season we’re just going to follow the same process and try to keep bettering ourselves throughout the season,” Zhou said. “We have a lot of confidence and hopefully that can take us a bit further next year.”
Harvard will be returning most of its team next season with two seniors graduating this spring.
“To be losing our team captain in Christine and also losing Courtney are huge losses for us,” Rhoads said. “They’ve played key roles on our team for the last four years and had a ton of success so they’re really irreplaceable.”
—Staff writer Jed Rothstein can be reached at jrothstein@college.harvard.edu.