Ruggiero has Map to Future: First Stop, Vancouver
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The following article appeared February 13 on the New York Times Web site.
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — How to live life
after hockey is a question elite female hockey players must face a
lot sooner than elite male players, given the absence of a
professional women’s league. At 30, the four-time United
States Olympian Angela Ruggiero is already preparing for it, even
if some of the work she has done may come back to haunt her.
Ruggiero has had several nonprofit jobs since graduating from
Harvard in 2004. One of them was as a director of Project Hope, the
cultural-exchange program run by Charles Wang, the Islanders’
owner, that fosters the growth of hockey in Heilongjiang, the icy
province in northeastern China that provides the majority of that
country’s winter athletes — including the Chinese
women’s ice hockey team the Americans will face in their
Winter Games opener on Sunday.
“Linuo Wang, who’s their captain, I know well,”
Ruggiero said Thursday. “I was speaking with her, and a
couple of the girls actually I met when I went up to Qiqihar and
Harbin with Project Hope.”
Complete article can be accessed via the Times Web site by clicking here.
