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The 1998 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team had a powerful impact on the growth of girls' and women's hockey in the United States thanks to the success it enjoyed at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. The team twice defeated arch-rival Canada, including by a 3-1 count in the gold-medal game, en route to winning the first gold ...
Feb 17, 2023 · Earlier this month, Blake Bolden a trailblazer in women’s hockey as the first Black athlete drafted by a women’s professional hockey team, remembered the golden moment fondly. “My biggest dream was to be an Olympian -- I told my mom and dad that when I was a young girl and I saw the 1998 team,” Bolden told USAHockey.com
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Feb 8, 1998 · Perhaps the greatest influence on growth of girls’ and women’s ice hockey in America, the U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team captured the nation’s hearts at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. There, the team won the first-ever gold medal presented in women’s ice hockey at an Olympic Winter Games, defeating arch-rival ...
- — Coming Together —
- — The Christmas Cuts —
- — Welcome to The Olympics —
- — The ‘Meaningless’ Game —
- — Caught in A Controversy —
- — Back to Hockey —
- — Gold Medal Gameday —
- — The Celebration —
BEN SMITH |Head Coach I got my first taste of women’s hockey, as a coach, with USA Hockey in the summer of ’95. I think Dave Ogrean and Art Berglund came in to Boston for a Beanpot tournament and probably over too many beers, they asked me if I would be willing to coach and on a cold snowy night in February, I said, “Sure, I’ll go to Lake Placid in...
On the pre-Olympic tour with Canada, the U.S. won six of the 13 games. Before taking a break for the Christmas holiday, the players faced the final Olympic roster cut. One goalie and two skaters would be let go to get the roster down to 20. The team had rotated three goalies during the tour —Erin Whitten, Sarah Tueting and Sara DeCosta. SARAH TUETI...
GRETCHEN ULION SILVERMAN We flew into Osaka and went through athlete processing to get all our stuff. That was awesome! You get a shopping cart and you load it up with Olympic stuff. We’ve never been given much of anything. USA Hockey gave us some stuff but nothing like how we needed a shopping cart at the Olympics to get our swag. KATIE KING CROWL...
After the Olympic cauldron was lit in Nagano, and the Games declared open, the U.S. and Canada started their march toward a first round, Valentine’s Day date on the ice. In addition to the two hockey superpowers, the six team Olympic tournament included Finland, Sweden, China and the host nation, Japan. Each team played five round-robin games after...
In the aftermath of the U.S. scoring barrage, someone from the Canadian team implied to the media that a U.S. player had directed insults toward their forward Danielle Goyette, related to the recent passing of her father. On February 7, the day of the Opening Ceremony in Nagano, Goyette received news that her father had died in a Quebec hospital, l...
With three days until the gold medal game, the team worked to put the Goyette-Whyte controversy behind them and focused on preparations to play in the first Olympic final in women’s hockey. KARYN BYE DIETZ We tried to stay focused. We tried to keep busy with practice on the ice. It was a matter of staying focused and preparing yourself knowing that...
The U.S. and Canada met in the gold medal game on February 17, 1998 at 6:00 p.m. in Nagano. That’s 4:00 a.m. on the East Coast back home in the U.S. CBS decided to air the game at 7:00 a.m. ET, on delay, for U.S. viewers. KARYN BYE DIETZ On the bus going to the gold medal game, I remember watching a video our sports psychologist had put together. T...
CAMMI GRANATO I would watch the World Series, a Super Bowl, a Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal game and I always wanted to know what it felt like to celebrate after winning. To me the celebration, watching the genuine joy on the athletes’ faces; I was drawn to that. It was so authentic. I watched the 1980 Olympic hockey team win and reenacted tha...
Dec 17, 2021 · On February 17, 1998, in Nagano, Japan, the United States defeats Canada, 3-1, to win the gold medal in the first women’s hockey tournament held at the Winter Olympics. “After these Olympics ...
- Missy Sullivan
Feb 18, 1998 · Granato was offered a scholarship to play at Providence College, where she had a hat trick in her first college game in 1990 — the same year she joined the first women’s United States hockey team.
United States women's hockey team members celebrate in the locker room a victory over Canada in women''s ice hockey during the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan on Feb. 17, 1998.
