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...Bears (25-4-3, 19-2-3) lost netminder Ali Brewer, last year's Kazmaier Award winner, and three leading scorers to graduation. Then all-everything defenseman Tara Mounsey--a gold medallist in 1998--decided to forego her senior season in Providence to train with the national team for the 2002 Olympics. All of this means that Brown, by far the most veteran team in the conference last season, is now one of the ECAC's least experienced squads...
Angela Ruggiero--1998 Olympic Gold Medalist--did everything on and off the ice to make her first two years at Harvard the greatest two years in the history of Harvard women's ice hockey. She has been the best defenseman in collegiate hockey and the leading scorer at her position each of the last two seasons. Few would question her status as the best defender in the world...
...commitment to the national team just two weeks before the start of school. She informed Stone of the decision in the final days of August. In the end, it was the commitment of her fellow national teammates and the desire to maximize her chance of winning the Olympic gold in front of her home crowd that convinced her to leave Harvard...
Going for the Gold...
Ruggiero certainly understands the experience of being part of the National Team in high school. While a student at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut, she started playing internationally when she was only 15. She was 18 years old when she won her Gold Medal with the U.S. team in the 1998 Nagano Olympics...