Mounsey, Tara (1978–)

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Mounsey, Tara (1978–)

American ice-hockey player. Born Mar 12, 1978, in Concord, NH; attended Brown University.

Won Outstanding Performance Award for US at IIHF Pacific Women's Hockey championship (1996); won a team gold medal at Nagano (1998), the 1st Olympics to feature women's ice hockey; won team silver medals at World championships (1997, 1999); won a team silver medal at Salt Lake City Olympics (2002).

See also Mary Turco, Crashing the Net: The U.S. Women's Olympic Ice Hockey Team and the Road to Gold (HarperCollins, 1999); and Women in World History.

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