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That's an understatement. The senior squash player led her team to a first-place finish at the prestigious Howe Cup on February 19, to the regular season national championship with a 7-2 win over Yale on February 23 and then garnered a national championship herself at the Intercollegiate Squash Association's individual championships March...
Apparently, her teammates didn't seem to mind them, either. For despite the change in balls, they picked up right where they left off last season, dominating regular-season play and winning the prestigious Howe Cup in the process...
...after that, it was pretty much smooth sailing, as the team blanked Dartmouth and Amherst, 9-0, took first place at the Howe Cup on February 18, and then captured the regular-season national championship at Yale with a 7-2 win over the Bulldogs...
...champions, though, second place isn't good enough. Harvard and Fraiberg proved this cliche to be true the following year when both won their respective championships over their respective nemeses, Princeton and Belknap. The Crimson also captured the coveted Howe Cup from Yale that year to make it a clean sweep across the title board, all thanks to the leadership and inspired play of Fraiberg...
Fortunately for the Crimson, Fraiberg recovered from these set-backs to lead her team to its second consecutive national championship and Howe Cup. But Fraiberg was unable to completely regain her form from the year before, losing the individual national competition to an old nemesis and childhood friend, Margot Greene, in the semifinals...