Meet the Navy SEAL who helped mold Harvard into Frozen Four contender
CHICAGO — Adam La Reau, key player in Harvard’s emergence this season as a national hockey powerhouse, arrived in Cambridge in 2013 as the club’s unknown freshman.
To help the team, he had to have hockey experience, of course. But just how much?
“Zero,” La Reau said the other day, as the Crimson wrapped up preparations to play here this week in the Frozen Four, the Ivy League school’s shot to win its first Division 1 hockey title since 1989. “I’ve got about five minutes of ice time in my entire life.”
After nearly a dozen years as a U.S. Navy SEAL, it wasn’t power plays or forechecking schemes that brought La Reau to the Yard. He enrolled in the Kennedy School of Government for a one-year masters program in public administration. Within weeks after arriving, virtually through happenstance, he ended up as a consultant with the hockey team when mutual friends connected him with coach Ted Donato.
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