Tara Mounsey

Tara Mounsey (March 12, 1978 [http://www.usoc.org/26_1173.htm Tara Mounsey] , United States Olympic Committee. Accessed November 18, 2007.] ) is an American hockey defenseman who played for the U.S. 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. [Lessels, Allen. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADE19531AC3147&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "SHE'S SIMPLY THE BEST HARDEST THING FOR MOUNSEY IS NAMING A SPORT SHE DOESN'T LIKE"] , "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."] 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. Today Mounsey, a graduate of Brown University with a graduate degree from Boston College, is a nurse practitioner at New England Baptist Hospital and is an assistant coach at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [ [http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080217/SPORTS/802170376 10 Years Later] ]

The 1998 women's hockey team is one of five finalists for the team to be inducted in 2008 into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.usolympichalloffame.com/?page_id=7 2008 Nominees: Teams] ]

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