Meghan Agosta

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Women's ice hockey
Olympic medalist
Image:Meghan agosta.jpg Meghan Agosta
Medal record
Gold	2006 Turin	Team

Meghan Agosta (born February 12, 1987 in Ruthven, Ontario) is a women's ice hockey player.

Agosta first started playing hockey at age 6, switching to it from figure skating. She played for the Chatham Cyclones AAA organization and later for the Junior AA Windsor Wildcats of the Ontario Provincial Women's Hockey League. At the 2003 Canada Games, she scored the winning goal for Team Ontario.

In August of 2004 she moved to Calgary to train with the national team. Agosta was an alternate for the team that finished second at the 2005 women's world championship in April. She played for the national team for the first time in August 2005 at the Four Nations Cup, and was one of the leading scorers during the exhibition phase prior to the Winter Olympics.

Agosta has said she would have been playing hockey for a U.S. college now if not for her invitation to try out for the Olympic team. She says several schools have shown interest in her, but her full attention is on not wasting the opportunity immediately in front of her. "This is my chance and I just need to think about this," she said. ^[1].

Agosta distinguished herself as a freshman at Mercyhurst in NCAA Division I hockey. She became the first freshman ever to make the final three for the Patty Kazmaier Award. She was also a First Team All-American and a unanimous choice for CHA Player of the Year. She helped lead Mercyhurst to its first No. 1 national ranking, though her team did not advance past the NCAA quarterfinals. ^[2]

On her 19th birthday, during the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, she scored a hat trick for Team Canada against the Russian national women's ice hockey team.

Agosta has a brother Jeric, who played this year in Tier Two Junior A for the Aurora Tigers and next year will be playing hockey on a full scholarship at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.