Shelley Looney

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Shelley Looney
Born (1972-01-21) January 21, 1972 (age 52)
Brownstown Charter Township, Michigan,
United States
Height 5 ft 5 in (165 cm)
Weight 145 lb (66 kg; 10 st 5 lb)
Position Forward
Played for Northeastern
National teamFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Playing career 19902005
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Women's ice hockey
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Nagano Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Salt Lake City Tournament
IIHF World Women's Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Sweden Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1992 Finland Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1994 United States Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Canada Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1999 Finland Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2000 Canada Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2001 United States Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2004 Canada Tournament

Shelley Looney (born January 21, 1972, in Brownstown, Michigan, and raised in Trenton, Michigan) is an American ice hockey player and head coach. She scored the game-winning goal in the gold medal game for Team USA at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the team's first gold medal. She won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She played collegiate hockey at Northeastern University from 1991 to 1994, winning multiple awards, including ECAC All-Star, 1993 ECAC Tournament MVP and ECAC Player of the Year (1993–94). She was inducted into Northeastern College's Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999 and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2019.

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Looney is formerly the head coach of the Lindenwood University women's ice hockey team.

Playing career

In the gold medal game at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Looney scored the game-winning goal. [1] In the fall of 2002, she played with Team USA teammate Cammi Granato for the Vancouver Griffins of the National Women's Hockey League. She finished second on the team and fourth in the Western Conference with 35 points (10–25) in 24 regular-season games. She participated for Team British Columbia at the 2003 Esso Women's Nationals. She was named B.C. Player of the Game in the bronze medal game [2] despite losing to Team Quebec.

While still playing for Team USA, Looney went into coaching, serving as an assistant with the Under-17 Boys' National Team Development Program in 2003, then joining the University of Vermont as assistant coach of the women's team in 2005–06. She left that position to train for the next Olympics.

In 2006, Looney was one of the final players cut from the Olympic team that would go on to win a bronze medal in Turin. She ended her USA Hockey career with 61 goals and 136 points in 151 games.

Looney was the hockey director for the Buffalo Bison Hockey Association until 2019.

Looney is head coach of the NCAA Division 1 Lindenwood University Lady Lions women's ice hockey team.

"Thank You Canada"

In 1980, the government of Canada helped six Americans escape from Iran when students stormed the US embassy, precipitating the Iran Hostage Crisis. Looney, then eight years old, wrote a letter of thanks to Canada. The letter was later transcribed and released as a single by Mercury Records in March 1980 under the title "(This Is My Country) Thank You, Canada". The brief (1:26) spoken-word record received some airplay and made Cashbox's Top 100 (two weeks at #99) and Billboard Magazine's "Bubbling Under The Hot 100" chart nationally, peaking at #109.

Awards and honors

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