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...last year’s ECAC Rookie of the Year Sarah Vaillancourt on the team. The United States, meanwhile, and its head coach Ben Smith, added four past and current Crimson skaters to its 20-man roster. Chief among them is Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04, to women’s hockey what Spielberg is to Hollywood—a spokesperson, a leader, and an expert practitioner. Standout Julie Chu is back for her second Olympic tournament and solid blue-liner Jamie Hagerman ’03 also made the cut. The most surprising inclusion...
...Cahow leave and it will affect the team to have two great players not on the roster,” Ruggiero says. “But they will come back faster and stronger. And to have the Harvard name out there in the Olympic year helps in the recruiting process. It’s going to be a growing year, so the younger players will get more ice time. I just feel bad for the seniors...
...many ways, Ruggiero notes, her ascendance in the global game of women’s hockey has coincided with the increasing prominence of the sport in general...
...depends on whether we win the gold medal or not,” Ruggiero says. “When we won in 1998, it revitalized the sport in the U.S. with the NCAA and everything. Then, after Canada won in 2002, the sport blossomed there...
...months after Harvard had dropped its first NCAA national championship game in heartbreaking fashion.Even then there was talk of the coming Olympic year—if the Crimson was going to win a national championship, it would have to be in the next two years since by then Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 and Nicole Corriero ’05 would have graduated, and Julie Chu, now a senior, would probably be taking the year off for her second Olympics with the U.S. National Team. Now that time has come, and another big gun, sophomore...