Kerster a Finalist for Student-Athlete of Year
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Senior forward Kirsten Kester of the
seventh-ranked Harvard women's hockey team has been named one of
three finalists for the ECAC Hockey Student-Athlete of the Year
Award, the conference announced Wednesday evening.
Each of the finalists for the award had to have at least a 3.50
grade-point average, participate in at least 50 percent of the
team's games and demonstrate leadership on and off the ice. The
winner of the award will be selected during the week of March
3.
Kester, a co-captain of the Crimson, has appeared in all 29 games
this season and has two points on a goal and an assist. A two-time
All-ECAC Hockey Academic choice, she is a biology concentrator and
has amassed a cumulative 3.81 grade-point average through the fall
semester. Kester has been rewarded for her laboratory research with
a series of grants and awards, including Harvard's Museum of
Comparative Zoology Grant-in-Aid of Undergraduate Research, the
Harvard College Research Program Grant and Harvard's Microbial
Sciences Initiative Fellowship.
A native of Concord, Mass., she helped found the Harvard Undergraduates Bioethics Society, exploring issues brought forth by advances in science and medicine. Kester also coached at team at the Chowder Cup in Foxborough, Mass., last summer which raised money for cancer research.
