Ridley also coached the Newport High School girls' team for ten years leading them to six state championships from 1976-1982 while Harshbarger was at Stanford.

[3][4][1] In April, 1972, competing for Lake Washington, she swam a 16:59.33 in the 1650 freestyle, placing first in the finals of the National AAU Short Course Swimming Championships.

[2] In early November, 1972, after the Olympics, she helped her Newport High School team take the Washington State swimming title, winning the 200 freestyle after setting a meet record time of 1:59.62 in the prelims, and also winning the 400 freestyle after setting a meet record time of 4:06.67 in the preliminaries.

[7] Her time in the 800-meter freestyle at the 1972 Munich Olympic finals was 9:01.21, placing her fourth, just under 4 seconds behind bronze medal winner Novella Caligaris of Italy.

[14] Harshbarger committed to Stanford for the fall of 1975, and swam for Hall of Fame Coach Jim Gaughran, receiving one of the school's first athletic scholarships for women in swimming.

[15] While at Stanford, she placed fourth in the 500 free with a time of 4:56.3 at the AIAW Women's Swimming Collegiate Championships in Fort Lauderdale on March 18, 1976.