Stone Precious to Harvard, Hockey
The following article featuring Harvard head coach Katey Stone appeared in the October 4 issue of the Boston Globe.
By Amalie Benjamin
Globe Staff
They stood a little apart, on the outskirts of a football huddle, listening. They felt what their father was saying, absorbed it, understood it, taking in the words and the tone, and the messages. Katey Stone and her brother would spend practices messing around, playing with blocking dummies, having fun. But at the end, when the team would assemble into the huddle, they would stop. They would listen.
She was 5 years old. Six, maybe.
Stone grew up on her father’s football fields and baseball diamonds, sitting next to him on the bench in the dugout, keeping stats, listening in. She saw the discipline and the respect, the demands and the motivation, the way to build her future.
Complete article can be accessed via the Globe Web site by clicking here.
