Episode 10 – Going Great with UW Women’s Hockey star Caroline “KK” Harvey

On the latest “Going Great Across UW Women’s Athletics” host Brian Posick sits down with Wisconsin Hockey defenseman Caroline “KK” Harvey.

Episode Transcript

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I was just, honestly, wastrying to be a sponge and that was
what I was told by I thinkDecker as my former U eighteen coach.
She had been there for many years. I think maybe it was her second
or third Olympics. Deef like third, but she has so much experience and
I trusted her, and she's like, honestly, like, just be a
sponge this time. Like take itin, Like this won't always be the
case, but you know, likethis is a great opportunity to learn and
watch other players and like know whatyou'll do in the off season and how

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you'll up your game. So itat the time, I wanted our team
to win and I wanted us toIt sucks again losing to Canada, but
I learned a lot from that opportunity. Definitely still not playing much. Welcome
to Going Great across UWD Women's Athletics, presented by Great Clips. Great Clips.
It's going to be great, Goinggreat across uw Women's Athletics. Here's

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a showcase on the great thing studentathletes are accomplishing on the field, in
the classroom and beyond. Now here'syour host, Ryan Posick. Hello and
welcome to the iHeartRadio podcast Going GreatAcross UW Women's Athletics, presented by Great
clips On Brian Posik, the fatherof a former UWD women's hockey player and
an NCAA Polevall qualifier, the brotherof an All American basketball and soccer player,

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and the husband of an iron man. In this podcast, we'll talk
with a guest or guests who havemade or are making an impact on UW
women's athletics, and our guest todayon January eleventh, twenty twenty four,
is sophomore defenseman KK Harvey of theWisconsin women's hockey team. Twenty twenty three
was quite a year for Caroline KKHarvey. She was named the wcaj Freshman

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of the Year. She earned AllAmerica honors from the American Hockey Coaches Association.
She scored the game winning goal inovertime of Wisconsin's NCAA semi final victory
over Minnesota, then won a nationaltitle two days later when the Badgeries beat
Ohio State in Duluth, and thenKK won a World championship with Team USA.
About a year after winning a silvermedal at the twenty twenty two Winter

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Olympics in Beijing. Happy to haveKK Harvey with us year on our podcast
today. Boy, that's quite arun. Twenty twenty three was good to
you, wasn't it. Thank you? Yeah, thanks for having appreciate it.
It was quite a fun journey,and I was grateful for all those
opportunities. Definitely. KK was bornin Pelham, New Hampshire, right,
I was born and conquered Mass Concord, Mass. Yes, okay, And
what's your hometown? Salem, NewHampshire. Now they haven't marked under Pelam,

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so that might be confusing. Okay, But I grew up in Mass
for eleven years and then I've bouncedaround a bit. Now I'm in New
Hampshire. Okay, you like itthere? I do. Yeah. I
love Salem. Salem is what onthe Spickett River? Is that? Right?
Does that sound familiar? It soundsfamiliar. I haven't been home a
lot, souse. I'm at prepschool at here, so, but I
love Salem. They got a lotof fun stuff to do there. Sure.

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Let's let's talk about your you know, growing up with your your mom,
I mean mom and dad. You'reyou're in the middle of three kids
to Martha and David Harvey. Yourdad got you involved in hockey when you
were what three years old? Isthat right? Yeah? I was around
three watching my older brother. Yes, okay, And then you had a
stick in hand pretty close after that, didn't you. Yeah. So I
learned how to skate first, actuallystarted figure skating, and then after that,

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once I a skating foundation, Iput a stick in my hands,
and then I started playing hockey.Figure skater. Yeah, very a bit.
It was probably, honestly actually likesix or six months or a year,
So I honestly first learned how toskate first, and then after that
he my dad was all about thefundamentals, and then he added a puck
and I was able to pick itup from there. Were you a good
figure skater because you're a heck ofa hockey skater? Oh? Thank you.

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I I enjoyed it. I'm I'mhappy I had that opportunity of skating
first and learning that great like goodtechnique first. But yeah, I enjoyed
it. It was it was afun opportunity. Did you do any competitions?
No, no, no, Idid not get that far. Oh
okay, all right, just wondering, just wondering. So you your older
brother, Nolan, he had aninfluence on your hockey career. Tell us

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about that he did. Yeah,so he was playing, and I remember
my dad at the time was astay at home father. Mom was at
work, so he was forced toobviously like bring me to the rink,
and I'm I'm I love it.I loved it at the time, and
I'm glad he did because I'd behe turned the stroller around, I'll be
watching him, and then as earlyas I could speak, I'd be so
fascinated. And then when I spokeup, I'm like, I want to
play like and I kept pushing onhim to put me in skates, and

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then shortly after he did, whichwas great. That's awesome. So I
do you remember your first hockey gameor thereabouts, you know, I think
so. Yeah, I was playingEast Coast Wizards maybe or ass of It
girls hockey. I remember I rememberbeing very little and playing. It was
so fun. I played every positionhonestly. Really. Yeah, okay,

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so it's crazy you haven't always beena defenseman. No, I love goalie
for extended period of time. Yeah, I was back there, and I
don't know if my dad thought Iwas going to be and he was like,
oh, I think at the time, he was like, I wasted
all that money in those scanning lessons. And then I think he's glad I
because I got bored. I'm like, I want to come out of the
net. Okay, but that wasfun for a little bit. Were you
good? I think so, yeah, I love just like honestly, I

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think a core memory is my dadalways tells me, is one of the
plays. I actually came all theway up to the blue langue. I
defended it like a defender show.At that point, he was like,
okay, I can tell you wantto get out of the net. And
I kept saying on bored and hewas like, yeah, let's put you
on d now or forward or whatever. Kay. Harvey's with us. Her
organized hockey in Salem was that gunhockey. Is that right? Oh,
top Gun? Yeah, that's thatwas my first boys team. Really.

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Okay, so you played with boysquite a bit I did. Yes,
Yeah, that's fun. Yeah,it was good. It was good for
development, definitely the guys. SarahBaller telling me that the first Patty Kasm
Award winner here she grew up inCanada and she played with the boys.
Yeah it helped her. Yeah,definitely. How does it help you.
It's just like the guys obviously,like for like even when you're younger,

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and I know, you know whenthey hit puberty, like they shoot up,
they grow, they get bigger.But like even just at a young
age, they're they're very even competitivetoo. They have more of an edge,
I feel like, and they're alittle bit faster, a little bit
stronger. So when you play withboys your age, it's always like you're
getting pushed, so especially as ad when they are coming down on you,
it's like you're forced to keep up. So I feel like that was
a lot a big part of likethe development part of it. Sure you

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played street hockey with your brother too, right, I did, Yeah,
I played off with that him onthat Yeah. It sounded like he never
let you win. No, hewas always so hard on me. I
remember I was she hockey goalie too, and I remember for a long period
of time he would just fire slapshotson me and like I would be like
coming inside crying, but I likeloved it. And his best friend would

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beat him up for me, andI was like mom like and like she's
like come on, wait a minute. Yeah, you had a bounty out
on your brother because of street hockey. Yeah, he would just like shoot
like rip shots at me and wouldbe like get the goal, like you
made me get the goal. Yeah, that's funny. You've got a younger
sister too. She's older. Actuallyi'm the youngest. You're the youngest.
You're not the middle kid. No, no, because I thought you were

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special like me. I'm a middlekid. No. No, okay,
so wait, so so when youwere your name is Caroline, And we've
told this story a zillion times,but she couldn't pronounce your Yeah. How
old was she when you were born? She she's fourteen months older than me.
It's a bit confusing though, likea lot of people do think she's
younger. It was just like atthe time, it came out as KK
and it sucks. So now it'sjust my nickname for everyone. Yeah,

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but you introduced yourself to me asCaroline. Yeah, like I guess for
formal things, i'll say Caroline,but I'll tell people you can call me
KK. Two. Oh all right, So did your sister play hockey?
She did it. She played soccerand basketball. She's pretty good. Yeah,
she enjoyed it a lot. Yeah. Yeah, I mean growing up
playing sports, I mean that that'sI don't think there's anything better. I
know it's the best. You knowin New Hampshire. Tell me about New

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Hampshire. I was born in Meriden, Connecticut. I love New England.
Special about Salem, New Hampshire,honestly. Like yeah, So, like
I moved away from from like ingeneral, like home, pretty early age
and at the time we had movedto New Hampshire, so I wasn't there
for much of it, Like Iwent to prep school in eighth grade,
But I love coming back to NewHampshire, like the seasons especially. Yeah,

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and just where I'm living at it'sright on the border in your Mass
so, like I'll train right inmass like right over the border. It's
pretty convenient. Like there's a lotof Boston's only forty minutes and like just
in my city itself, there's alot of food place, there's a lot
of shopping, like a lot todo, so it's a lot of fun.
Yeah, you mentioned you played atprep school. Was that North American
Hockey Academy that was prior? Yeah, so I played there my senior year,

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but four years, like eighth gradethrough junior year, I played at
Selex Academy in Rochester, New York. Okay, wow, yeah, so
bounced around a little bit. Whatwas it like, I mean, you're
in eighth grade and you're moving awayfrom home. Yeah it was. It
was hard at first, not gonnalie, Yeah it was. I was
pretty homesick, but I'm glad Imade the transition and it helped a lot
with development too, Like every dayand you're not setting where everyone has the

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same mindset. Yeah, So howdo you know in eighth grade that hockey
is what you want to do?I mean, was I when I was
in eighth grade? You know,I wanted to be a baseball player,
So I suppose I can understand whereyou're coming from. Yeah. I remember
at the time, like I don'tknow if it was end of seventh grade,
but it was my last year boysand we're playing at Holy Cross and
at the time, I think theymight have still been D three. My

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dad mentioned me, oh, like, there's colleges in the future, and
at the time I thought he's crazy. I was like, oh, like,
what do you mean, Like I'llfigure that out down the road.
But then it really came into mymind, like, oh, yeah,
I do want to play college hockey. I know it's a thing, like
there's girls like Sarah Nurse, likeHillary Knight who went through like in like
the girls that are there right now. Like at the time, I think
it was Clark and like Happy Rockprobably, but I was like, yeah,
like I definitely want to do that. But I didn't know if I

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was up for like if a schoollike Wisconsin want me. I didn't know
where my development was at. ButI just kept working hard and then lucky,
luckily, opportunities came my waye SoI was happy about that. KK
Harvey is with us. You werehighly recruited. What colleges showed interest in
you or maybe maybe it would bebetter which ones didn't. Honestly, I
would have maybe considered staying back home, but not a ton of back home.

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The only one that really did wasNortheastern. But I really liked Providence
at the time. I think Providencein Wisconsin were my top like a little
bit back home, and a lotof it was the coaching and then I
loved the coaches here too, Sojust with all the facilities and what there
is here to offer, it wonme over. Obviously you couldn't say no
to Wisconsin, but yeah, definitelythose were my tops, like back home

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in here. Sure do you rememberyour first contact with Wisconsin? My yeah,
like talking to them, Yeah,I just remember. I'm trying to
think it might have been like afterlike a Stony Creek tournament in Canada or
two Nations we always play in Canada, right over the Word in Toronto,
being in Rochester. But I thinkbefore the game, my dad must have
been there, but I had noidea they were there. There's always just
a bunch of you know, scouts, And after the game he was saying

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like, oh, there's a bunchof coaches here, like the naming the
schools. I'm like, oh,that's awesome, Like hopefully they're interested or
liked my play. And then luckily, a couple days later, I think
my coach notified me. He's like, oh, yeah, like they're interested,
and then they set up a calland I was super excited for like
chatting with them and they're interested.Sure. Sure do you remember your first
contact with Mark Johnson? It wasn'tI think Dan. I was in contact

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with Dan and Jackie they were doingtheir recruiting, but with Mark it was
definitely more my official or when Icame out for camp, and that was
cool. I was I had Yeah, I was like nervous, but I
was excited to meet him, Like, oh my god, Mark Johnson.
Yeah, he's the closer. Yes, by the way, right, yeah,
he closes the deal. If hewants you, he'll close. Yeah.
And it was cool to have thatformal meeting with him and be like
wow, like they mean business kindof thing. Yeah. I've spoken with

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a lot of former Badgers who didn'tknow who Mark Johnson was at the time
they were being recruited. But youknow of his playing girl Yeah, in
like the nineteen eighty Olympics obviously,and obviously he's a pretty big deal what
he did, and he's a prettyincredible player. So I was like,
oh, I think I do knowwho that is. Yeah. You can
still shoot the puck yet still flyout there. Yeah, oh yeah,

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yeah, I'll still jump and repssome practice iming. Huh he still got
it. KK Harvey's with us.So role models growing up. I know
Casey Bellamy is one of them.Yes, right, she played at uh
tell us why you kind of gravitatedto her? Yeah. I remember my
first senior camp. I don't knowif it was back in what year,

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it was maybe it was twenty twentyyear, but I remember she was there,
and I remember super nervous, andshe's pretty intense individual and like Carris
herself really well on and off theice, and she's a very diligent like
work hard, good habits, andlike just watching her as a young little
girl at the time, I waslike wow, Like I was just trying
to stay in my place and likenot say much, but I was super

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nervous, but I knew looking upto her, I was like wow,
Like I want to be like herone day, and I want to carry
myself like that. I want tobe serious but have fun, and like
she just showed a lot of qualitieswhere I'm like, wow, I want
to be like her, and likejust obviously she's a phenomenal player. So
I'm like, okay, yeah,this is the real Dail. Yeah.
Casey Bellamy, a three time Olympiangold medalist in twenty nineteen, eight time
World champion stand out at New Hampshire, played pro hockey in Boston for seven

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years now retired. Yeah, doyou stay in contact with her or try
to? I think here and there, Yeah, And like I have her
on social media, so we'll reachout to each other. I'm like a
little bit here and there, butyeah, I always enjoy catching up with
her. She's a great human being. Sure. Yeah. KK has been
compared to Colorado Colorado's Cale mccarr.Have you heard that. I feel like

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someone said that that one time andI was like, Eh, pretty far
off from him. He's quite upthere for incredible good. Yeah, but
I mean that's a crazy comparison.I appreciate whoever said that, but I
don't know about all that. Well. Yeah, Cale was a Hobe Baker
winner at UMAs in twenty eighteen.So right down the street from you,

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number four. Why do you wearnumber four? Because I think of a
Boston icon, Bobby or Yeah,I've told them before. Yeah right.
Honestly though, it's not like whenI used to be three growing up for
the longest time because of my brotherand I think my dad. I don't
know if he was that number,but it was like a sports number we
all had. And I was atSelex and then I remember I was going
to Naha and this was prior toI was switching schools. It was a

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new start and my coach, TonyAiano, actually she played at BC.
She had said new chapter, likestart a new number, like this is
new beginning, because I remember she'ssaying that, and I actually am very
happy she made me switch because nowit stuck with me and I liked the
number better. And when I wentto my first senior camp for US say,
they gave me four two, andit was like I was meant to
be and now I've just been fourand I'm like okay. And then at

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Whisko actually too, Sophie Helgeson wasin the year before me because I was
deferring for my residency and they werelike, Coach was like, you could
either have three or four, andI'm like, I'll give it to her.
I'm sure she'll like she wants thatnumber. So it was good I
gave it up because everything aligned andnow I love the number four. Awesome,
Yeah, awesome, going great acrossyou. W Women's Athletics presented by
Great Clips. KK Harvey of theWisconsin Women's hockey team, is with us

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your first taste of USA hockey?When was that for playing just young?
Yeah? For USA hockey. Whenwhen all of a sudden, you know,
your baby or a development camp,Yeah, like a U fifteen.
It was back when I read myfirst U fifteen camp, I mean I
was fourteen fifteen. Actually no,it was regional camp. We were I
think all the girls from New Englandgo to like New York and it's more

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like the New England girls. It'slike a pre national camp. The next
year you're just too young to goto national camp, but you go to
a regional camp and then the followingyear's national camp. I remember that camp
and I got my taste, andI remember was is a bunch of great
talent for New England. It's goingand I was like, oh, it's
pretty eye opening to see other reallygood players from like, you know,

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New England. And I was like, wow, this is competitive. I'm
going to have to up my gameand keep working hard because I want to
keep making these like you know,camps teams. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Well in twenty nineteen, KK wona silver medal with you eighteen at
the World Championship in Japan, wona gold medal in Slovaki and twenty twenty
and then you made the US seniornational team. Were you eighteen at the
time, Yes, I was.Cow. Yeah, there's there's one where

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it got canceled because of COVID andthen we had to retry out. But
yeah, it was I think so, yeah, was was Casey Belmaby there?
Yeah, she was. That's howI remember my friend, Yeah,
Hillary Night, Brianna Decade. Imean, the stars are the stars.
My gosh. I was so likein awe, but like I have to
be cool because these are my teammatesright now. Like I was like,
oh my gosh. I was like, wow, yeah, I know you

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want a silver medal in twenty twentyone with USA Hockey at the World Championships,
Is that right, yes? InCalgary? Yeah, so that was
was that? I mean, thatwas your first real experience with playing that
yeah, senior national team. Yeahit was. I remember that. It
was. It was terrible like losingobviously because I was a pattern for a
while, but it was like thestrangest thing. I remember Pooling scored and

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we all thought it went in andwe kept playing. Don't know if you
remember watching it, and then thegoldhorn went off like ten seconds later,
and then they celebrated and then right, yeah, it was horrible, terrible,
but like a great experience. Butyou know, gate losing to Canada,
oh for sure, for sure.Then you made the US team for
the twenty twenty two Olympics in Beijing, and you were nineteen, the youngest
player on the roster. That's crazytoo. Yeah, I don't know.

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At the time, I was justgoing through it. I was like,
oh, I'm gonna keep taking theseopportunities, like I'm so grateful. Cool.
Yeah right, yeah, I was. You were supposed to be a
freshman here though. Yeah, sothat was not a tough decision. Should
I go to college now or shouldI play in the Olympics potentially? Right,
Yeah, so I just took theyear off. It was like the
residence you had for a couple ofmonths, So you either have to if
you get invited to it, youtake it off, and then you hope

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to make the team. It's acouple month try out, you hope for
the best, and then yeah,it's very fortunate. It's amazing to think
about it. You play in theOlympics before you play college hockey. That's
amazing. That's amazing. Take kHarvey's here per usual. The US played
Canada for the gold medal in Beijingin Canada one. You didn't play a
ton there, But what did youlearn from that experience? Yeah, I
mean, definitely a different role andI hadn't really been in that position before.

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But it was so many new thingsthat once, you know, going
to the Olympics, like all theceremonies, like it was so much but
so crazy and amazing. Like Ican't even explain it to you, just
like have to kind of you know, like be there and like in the
moment like it was. I justhonestly was trying to be a sponge and
that was what I was told byI think Decker, as my former U
eighteen coach. She had been therefor many years. I think maybe it

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was her second or third Olympics.Definitely like third, but she has so
much experience and I trusted her andshe's like, honestly, like just be
a sponge this time. Like takeit in like this won't always be the
case, but you know, likethis is a great opportunity to learn and
watch other players and like know whatyou'll do in the off season and how
you'll up your game. So itat the time, I wanted our team
to win and I wanted us toIt sucked again losing to Canada, but

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I learned a lot from that opportunity. Definitely still not playing much sure.
KK Harvey with US enrolled at Wisconsinthe summer after the Olympics. The Badgers
fantastic, Fantastic freshman season led theWCCHA rookies with thirty nine points, and
at least Sis Paulson scored more pointsas a freshman defenseman in uw history.
KK was named the WCHA Rookie ofthe Year, second Team All American,
First All American it Wisconsin Sin's MeganHunter in two thousand and one, you

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get to go to the NCAA Frozenfour and luth you meet Minnesota in the
semis and you got to learn whatthe Gophers Badgers rivalry it was all about.
Then you score the game winner inovertime to go to the championship game.
And I still remember watching that play. You were kind of sneaking and
hanging out on the right side andeverybody had flushed to the left, and
then all of a sudden boom andyou had the puck take us through that
play and kind of what you rememberand even the celebration afterwards. Yeah,

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I definitely blacked out after it wentin, But all I remember was there
was like three minutes left to ot and we're all so tired, and
like it was just one play awayfrom either team winning, and I remember
it was very back and forth,but we had a zone entry. It
went into the corner like lost possession, but Britta had a very good four
check. She sealed the wall offand then the pucks like popped out to

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Jesse, very aware and like shejust saw me in the soft spot,
sent it and Layla Laila says shewas gonna catch it, but she's like,
I felt you behind me, whichwas super smart too, if you
think about it, like to knowthat in awareness when you're tired, right
at the end of an OT andthen I remember I was like, all
right, I think this puck iscoming to me. I just need to
expect it. I can't if Imiss it, They're gone, Like you

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know, I'm the last man back. I just got to like capitalize right
now. And all I was thinkingabout was getting my puck, myself around
the puck, picking a corner,and luckily, like I was able to
go in and the goalie was offher angle, and then from there we
just I don't know, I don'tremember. I remember sprinting and I was
like, ah, like it's over. Like finally, Like I was just
hap your team moved on and we'rein the game the next day Championship and

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then he beat Ohio State. Yeah, that was crazy, what a thrill.
I'm not a fan of Ohio State. No, I don't think any
of us are, even the Gophers. No. No. About a month
after the Badgers won their seventh tenSA title, Caroline KK was back with
USA Hockey won a golden medal atthe World Championship in Canada. She scored
the game time goal late in thethird period of the title game against the

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Canadians before the Americans beat Canada.Yes, KK had four goals, fourteen
points plus fourteen and that World championshipwas awarded the Bob Allen Women's Hockey Player
of the Year by USA Hockey.That's a that's quite an honor. And
I know Hillary Knight was asked aboutyou and she said, quote, her
potential is just incredible. It's offthe charts. It's scary to see what

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she can be in a few yearsbecause she's already there. Now, I
mean, that's quite a compliment.Yeah, maybe the greatest player we've ever
seen. I just gave me Chelise. I'm not gonna lie, that means
a lot coming from our captain,especially just like being through a lot like
of adversity, you know, injuriesand like having like such a year with
them, and it was like I'mso fortunate, but hearing that, like

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wow, like yeah, it meansa lot coming from her. She's the
go of our I would say she'sthe goat of women's hockey. So I
agree, I agree, she's great, going great across you know, old
you Women's Athletics presented by Great Clips. Just a few more questions here for
k Harvey. She was off toa strong start this season when she suffered
a serious knee injury against Bmidgie onOctober twentieth. How bad was that?

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Yeah, I mean, I think, honestly, like I feel comfortable saying
it now, at the time,I think a lot of people because I
came back so quick, which Iwas grateful the rehab went well, but
a lot of people like kind ofwere like, oh, like, you
know, we were lucky it wasn'ta serious injury. But I just like
want people to know it was aserious injury and like just luckily I stuck
to the rehab and I had verygood care here and was able to get

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through that. So it was ahard injury. I'm not gonna that was
the hardest injury I've had, herbiggest injury and luckily to be back now
and feeling like myself again. Yeah, some people would have surgery. Some
people. Yeah it was that bad, but like, luckily my body did
the job and healed up, youknow, like the rehab was good too.
Yeah, I don't know. SheKK returned December second against UMD.
Didn't look like you missed a beat, thank you. Yeah, I was

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just so excited to be back.Yeah, I felt I felt comfortable,
I felt good. But yeah,I had missed it so much and I
still I've missed a couple of gameslately, but I'm like itching to get
back, like I miss being withthe girls and competing. Sure. After
splitting at Minnesota to wrap up thefirst half of the college season, KK
joined USA Hockey for the Rivalry seriesand got dinged up again. Yeah,
what in the world. I know, it was luckily not my name,

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but yeah, I'm I know,just a lot of injuries this year and
unfortunate, but you know it's it'staught me a lot again. Yeah,
if you didn't play hockey. Whatwould you be doing? I don't know.
I I think i'd be playing anothersport, probably like soccer or Yeah,
I think soccer would be what I'mdoing because my sister played in like
Also I played it a little growingup and I loved it besides hockey,

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So I think i'd be like asoccer player, yeah, a goalkeeper or
would you play out? I'd beout. I'd be like a forward.
Honestly, I'd be wanting to getthe ball and just run down the field.
Uh. So, what's your majorat Wisconsin Health Promotion, Health equity?
Okay, and what do you hopeto do with that whenever your hockey
career comes to a close. Andalso I'm getting a certificate in sports journalism,

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so I honestly I plan on.Like, I don't really know what
I want to do. I definitelywant to stay in hockey, either like
a coaching job or be cool likeyou see what like Kennel Coin's doing,
or like you know, Megan dugand like working with some NHL teams.
I mean down the road, ifI meet a connection or have an opportunity,
I would absolutely love that and Iwould love to use experience I've had

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in wisdom. Down the road,when I gain more of that and share
with you know, like some ofthe guys and be on that side of
it, maybe I don't know,it's a long way down the road,
yeah, but definitely something like that. It would be so cool. Yeah.
You know, the PWHL, theProfessional Women's Hockey League is out there
and that's I mean, you know, fans here in Madison or listening to
this podcast, or Badger Women's hockeyfans, and you know what the fans

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are like at Lebon Arena. Yougo up to Ritter at Minnesota, go
to ams Oil at Duluth. They'repretty good up there too. Yeah.
But to see what women's hockey's cometo now, it's you know, you
watch the Olympics, some might watchthe World Championship, but it's all about
the Olympics. But now the PWHL. Yeah, I mean, just think
about the opportunity that you and somany others now have to play in the

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Stakes or North America. You know, you have college eligibility. You know
the teams are throwing around a lotof money to the really good players.
Would you ever consider foregoing eligibility andturning pro like we see so many guys
do on the men's side. Yeah, It's it's crazy, how I mean,
I'm watching it and I'm like,wow, this is unbelievable. Like

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you watch I don't know, ifyou watch the Ottawa game, oh yeah,
and even the Minnesota game, theyget like was it thirteen thousand or
like, and then Ottawa sold outthere na eight thousand, Like I was
getting chills. I'm like, thisis the coolest thing ever. Like I
I want to do this when Igrow up, like when I'm done with
college, but for the foregoing theeligibility, I mean right now, like
I'm so happy here. I'm herewith the girls, and I want to

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be a big continue to like youknow, help the team and like potentially
be you know, maybe a leadershiprole. So I want to keep being
here and supporting like my team andfor I don't know as long as like
you know, like graduating that's thegoal, but I don't know down the
road. Definitely want to be withthe pro league for sure. KK.
We started by discussing all that youaccomplished in twenty twenty three, So what
do you hope to accomplish in twentytwenty four? You know, this year's

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been like the end of twenty twentythree in the beginning, this year has
been a little tough, but youknow, putting that adversity, like embracing
it, kind of using that andgrowing from it. And I don't know,
I just want to I'm not reallyfocused on goals. I just want
the teams hopefully, Like if Iget another opportunity Yessa Hockey for World Championships,
that would be amazing. But Iwant our team here to you know,

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win another world champ I mean sorrynational championship. And then if I
get an opportunity the USA, whata world championship would be so cool.
So personally, I'm not really focusedon like individuals things. I just want
to be out there and like helpingthe teams win championships and be a part
of that that process because it wasso fun last year. But yeah,
just winning championships, that's all.Yeah. The NCAA Frozen Four is being

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held in Durham, New Hampshire.Yeah, back home. Now, that
would be awesome. Oh my gosh, that would be perfect. I mean,
we got to get there, butthat would be so cool. A
lot of family and friends would goto that. That would be awesome.
That'd be awesome. KK, thanksso much for your time. It was
fun talking to you. Yeah yeahhaving me Yah. Stay healthy, Yeah,
it's most important. Good luck therest of the year. Thank you

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so much. Sure, that's aKK Harvey, sophomore defenseman for the Wisconsin
women's hockey team, and I'm BrianPosik. Thanks for listening to Going Great
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