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Breaking the Ice: My Journey to Olympic Hockey, The Ivy League and Beyond
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by Angela Ruggiero
Sales Rank: 704197
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$19.95
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on 8-7-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
Published by: Drummond Publishing Group October 17, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1597630098
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1597630092
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.9 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
As a 1998 gold medalist in women's hockey, one of the NCAA's top scholar-athletes during the 2003–2004 school year and the first female nongoalie to play in a men's professional hockey league in 2005 with the Tulsa Oilers, Ruggiero is in an great position to comment on the current state of women's hockey. While she touches on some of the bigger gender-based problems facing women in the predominantly male sport, this is basically a straightforward account of her life from her introduction to hockey at age seven in not-so-hockey-friendly California through her experiences as a scholarship winner and top athlete at Connecticut's Choate Rosemary Hall prep school and later at Harvard to her post-Olympic pursuit of a professional career playing hockey. The best sections are those concerning Ruggiero's pre-prep school career, where she vividly describes proving herself "in a boy's world," including inadvertently breaking a boy's collarbone with a clean hit. Ruggiero's insider look at life in the Olympics is interesting, but the narrative is heavy with clichés. However, her honesty and her ability to capture how her teenage self had to persevere makes this a perfect gift book for preteen and teen female athletes. Photos. (Nov.)
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Product Review
As truly talented a hockey player as Angela is, it is her genuine humanitarianism that sets her apart. --Katey Stone, Head Coach, Harvard University Women's Ice Hockey
She is a great leader, an awesome teammate, and has become the most dominant player in the world. --Cammi Granato, Team USA, Women's Ice Hockey
Reader Reviews
This book is less about hockey and more about getting a peek inside the life of one of the greatest athletes of all time. It details the dedication that excellence requires, combined with personal stories from Angela's life. This book should be a part of every female hockey player's library. As a bonus, Ruggiero is seriously hot.
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