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Devens expressed to teammates that she was exhausted and she wanted to take a break. In an interview with The
Dartmouth school paper in the summer of 1994, Devens stated that she sometimes felt she was missing out on things by participating in three Division I sports. Lacrosse was her least favorite
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Dartmouth's field hockey and lacrosse teams and was named a captain of all three.
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Country Day School in Beverly, Massachusetts, from kindergarten through grade 9. In junior high, Devens was the captain of the boys' hockey team. At her boarding school,
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