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With her heart set on competing in the Olympics for the second time, Hughes returned home to New York to train with her long-time coach Bonni Retzkin. She practiced intensively throughout the summer and the fall semester.
“I think that a lot of people questioned it, but I never did,” Hughes says. “I’ve always seen myself going to college, so that was never an option. Harvard is just a great place, so trying to balance...
During her freshman and sophomore years, Hughes scheduled her classes in the morning or afternoon to make time for training sessions at a rink in Acton, Mass. and the Skating Club of Boston. Hughes skated a few hours each day, worked regularly with a trainer, and exercised multiple days a...
But Hughes could not let the possibility of participating in the 2010 Winter Olympics slip past her. Blockmate Claire M Wheeler ’11 remembers sitting with Hughes on their futon in Mather at 3:30 in the morning last March, when the skater was deciding whether she should...
“I missed pretty much two years of competing while being here [at Harvard] and had to get back to where I was before,” Hughes says. “I spent a lot more time on the ice than I have in the past.?...