Angela Ruggiero

Angela Ruggiero is an American former ice hockey defenseman, born on 3 January 1980, who played in four Winter Olympics for the United States women's national team. She won gold at Nagano in 1998, silver in 2002 and 2010 and bronze in 2006, and she took four world championship golds and six silvers. She won the 2004 Patty Kazmaier Award at Harvard and was the first woman to play a regular season professional hockey game in North America at a position other than goaltender. After retiring as a player she served on the International Olympic Committee from 2010 to 2018, chairing its Athletes' Commission, and she has been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the United States Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame.