When 18-year-old Caroline Harvey showed up to the U.S. women's national team selection camp in June, she was the youngest player there. And she had no idea what her next few months would look like.
If Harvey didn't make the national hockey team, she was set to enroll for her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin the following week. She already had an English 100 class picked out.
And if she made the roster? Harvey would defer, joining her much older teammates for the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship in Calgary, a months-long residency program in Minnesota, and ultimately the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.