Gretchen Ulion

Gretchen Ulion
Born (1972-05-04) May 4, 1972
Marlborough, CT, USA
Height 5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
Weight 130 lb (59 kg; 9 st 4 lb)
Position Forward
ECAC team Dartmouth
National team  United States
Playing career 19901998

Gretchen A. Ulion (born May 4, 1972) [1] is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She is the Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey program's all-time leading scorer with 189 goals and 312 points.[2] She was the captain of the Dartmouth Big Green during the 1993-94 season.[3]

In the gold medal game at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Ulion scored the first goal of the game.[4] It would also be the first ever goal scored in an Olympic women’s ice hockey gold medal game. Ulion was featured on the Wheaties box in 1998.[5]

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-02-17. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  2. http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=645017
  3. http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=204919644&SPID=4726&SPSID=48905
  4. IIHF Top 100 Hockey Stories of All Time, p.52, Szymon Szenberg and Andrew Podnieks, 2008, Fenn Publishing Company Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55168-358-4
  5. http://www.jwen.com/hock/whock/whockmain.html


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