“She’s always been a leader, but she’s going to be in charge of things like team synergy, reaching out to everyone—players that play and players that don’t play,” Delaney-Smith notes. “We’re only going to be as strong as our weakest link.”

Berry’s style of play speaks as loudly as anything she could say with words, cementing her role as a leader and teammate. She crafts her game so that her strengths augment those of her teammates.

“Brogan is a scorer so she attracts a lot of attention,” junior Victoria Lippert observes. “But with her drives, she always has her head up looking for kicks.”

Berry will need to up both her leadership and her on-the-court play to achieve the one goal that has evaded the star throughout here four years: winning the Ivy League title.

“The irony is, I think it’s amazing with how talented she is, has become, and was when she came here … that she doesn’t have a title yet,” Delaney-Smith explains. “We’re on a mission to get that title.”

Berry has no qualms with setting the bar high, after finishing last year second place in Ivy play.

“Our main goal is always to win an Ivy League championship,” she says.

But while this season begins with unfinished business, the highly decorated point guard speaks with contentment about her Crimson basketball career.

“Just being at Harvard—the best school in the country—and being able to play basketball at the same time has just been so much fun,” Berry says. “And I’ve learned a great deal from my experiences with basketball. The lessons that I’ve learned at Harvard have been invaluable, and I don’t think I could have learned them anywhere else.”