http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_1178.htmKrissy Wendell - the USA women's hockey captain. We lived kind of close together and we played softball & volleyball on the same team for a year or two in Jr. High & High School. My Sophmore year of high school was the first year for women's hockey at my school... I wanted to play soooooo bad, but alas I wasn't able to try out. My folks would have rathered me play basketball during the winter season (which I refused out of spite) and said hockey was too expensive - not to mention that I couldn't ice skate very well! But how COOL would it have been to play with an olympian?!
I think she moved back to men's hockey after a year or so of women's anyways though - mens was just more skilled and faster paced (she grew up playing baseball & hockey with the guys).
I went to the olympics in salt lake and got to see her play - it's just so fun & neat to actually know someone (not that we're 'friends' now - but, you know...)
Here's hoping we get the gold - but it'll be tight against canada!