Angela Ruggiero

Angela Ruggiero
Hockey Hall of Fame, 2015
Ruggiero in August 2008
Born	(1980-01-03) January 3, 1980 (age 37) Panorama City, CA, USA
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight	192 lb (87 kg; 13 st 10 lb)
Position	Defense
Shot	Right
CWHL team	Boston Blades
National team	United States
Playing career	1996–2011
Website	http://angelaruggiero.com
Medal record Women's ice hockey Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1998 Nagano Team competition 2002 Salt Lake City Team competition 2010 Vancouver Team competition 2006 Turin Team competition World Championships 2005 Sweden Team competition 2008 China Team competition 2009 Finland Team competition 2011 Switzerland Team competition 1997 Canada Team competition 1999 Finland Team competition 2000 Canada Team competition 2001 United States Team competition 2004 Canada Team competition 2007 Canada Team competition

Angela Marie Ruggiero (born January 3, 1980) is an American former ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the International Olympic Committee and was a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team, medaling in four successive Winter Olympic Games, including one Gold medal, two Silver, and one Bronze. She competed in ten Women's World Championships winning four Gold medals and six Silver. She also authored a memoir about her hockey experiences called Breaking the Ice. She also was a contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice. She announced her retirement from USA's national hockey team on December 28, 2011 and recently received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ruggiero was born in Panorama City, but grew up in Sylmar and Simi Valley, California.

On June 29, 2015, Ruggiero was announced as a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2015. She was inducted on November 9, 2015. She is only the fourth woman and second American woman to be inducted. She is also the only person to be inducted that was born in California. Angela is the All-Time Leader in Games Played for Team USA, male or female. 256 games.

Ruggiero played prep school hockey at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. While a senior at Choate, Ruggiero was the youngest member of the gold medal-winning 1998 United States Olympic Hockey Team in Nagano, Japan. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning 2002 team in Salt Lake City, Utah, a member of the bronze winning 2006 team in Torino, Italy, and a member of the silver winning 2010 team in Vancouver, Canada.

In her senior year at Harvard University, Ruggiero won the 2004 Patty Kazmaier Award as the top player in U.S. women's collegiate hockey. As of 2015 she is the only defenseman to win the award. She graduated from Harvard cum laude in 2004 with a degree in government. She received her master's degree in Sports Management from the University of Minnesota in 2010.