Tara Mounsey

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Tara Mounsey
Born (1978-03-12) March 12, 1978 (age 46)
Concord, NH, USA
Height 5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Weight 150 lb (68 kg; 10 st 10 lb)
Position Defense
ECAC teamBrown Bears
National teamFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Playing career 1996–2002
Medal record
Women's ice hockey
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Nagano Team competition
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Salt Lake City Team competition
IIHF World Women's Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Canada Team competition
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1999 Finland Team competition

Tara Lynn Mounsey (born March 12, 1978 [1] ) is an American ice hockey defenseman who played for the United States Women's Olympic Hockey Team, winning a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mounsey played high school hockey at Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire. [2] Playing on the "boys" team, she became the first female player to win the New Hampshire (Class L) Player of the Year award, after leading Concord to the 1996 state championship. [1]

Mounsey went on to play for Brown University where she was a two-sports athlete, ice-hockey and field hockey.

In ice hockey, she immediately made an impact on the ice, earning Ivy League and ECAC Rookie of the Year honors. [3] During the 1997–1998 season, Tara Mounsey took a hiatus from college hockey to focus on the Winter Olympics. At the Games, she collected two goals and four assists, which was tied for tops among defenders for Team USA. [4] For her outstanding performance, she was also selected to the All-World Team. She and her teammates won the first ever Olympic gold medal in Women ice hockey defeating Canada 3–1. They are credited for growing the sport's popularity for future generations with enrollment rising from 28,000 girls playing at the time to 80,000 playing today. [5]

Outside of the ice, Mounsey also found success on the turf. Playing just two seasons of field hockey, she is Brown's field hockey team's all-time leader in career points and goals and ranks eighth in assists. "She also holds the record for most points in a season, goals in a season, goals in a game and points in a game. Mounsey left Brown as the 13th all-time leading scorer and was honored as Brown’s co-best defensive player in 2000." [6]

Today Mounsey, a graduate of Brown University with a graduate degree from Boston College, is a Nurse practitioner at New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts. [7]

Awards and honors

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References

  1. 1 2 Tara Mounsey Archived 2007-10-07 at the Wayback Machine , United States Olympic Committee. Accessed November 18, 2007.
  2. ↑ Lessels, Allen. "SHE'S SIMPLY THE BEST HARDEST THING FOR MOUNSEY IS NAMING A SPORT SHE DOESN'T LIKE" Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine , The Boston Globe , December 10, 1995. Accessed November 18, 2007. "Tara Mounsey, a lover of challenges and an All-Everything athlete at Concord High School, had to think for a moment."
  3. ↑ "Tara Mounsey '01". Brown University Athletics. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  4. ↑ Huson, Kyle (2019-11-02). "1998 U.S. Olympic Women's Hockey Team Inducted to U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame". Team USA Hockey. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
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