Gigi Marvin, triple Olympic hockey medalist, retires

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Gigi Marvin, a three-time U.S. Olympic hockey participant whose final look with the nationwide workforce was in 2019, has retired, in accordance with USA Hockey.

Marvin, 34, was one in all six gamers of the nationwide workforce’s new golden technology who performed in every of the final three Olympics.

4 of the others beforehand retired after lastly taking gold in PyeongChang — captain Meghan Duggan, twins Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando and stalwart defender Kacey Bellamy. The final energetic participant from that group is Hilary Knight, a celebrity ahead poised to steer the 2022 Olympic workforce.

Marvin, as soon as nicknamed “NAHOOP” (Not A Hair Out Of Place), didn’t obtain the identical quantity of newsprint because the others. Her significance to the nationwide workforce was in her versatility.

She started as a ahead, then switched to protection for her final two Olympics, together with main the workforce in ice time in 2014. Marvin, the oldest participant on the 2018 Olympic workforce, was the U.S.’ first shooter in that 12 months’s epic last shootout, and he or she scored on Canadian goalie Shannon Szabados.

Marvin discovered to skate at age 2 in Warroad, Minnesota, a hockey city close to the Canadian border that additionally bred gold-medal winners Roger Christian and Invoice Christian (1960) and Dave Christian (1980), plus 2014 Olympian T.J. Oshie, who had his personal shootout heroics.

In 2008, Marvin and aunt Robin based RinkRat 19 Hockey College, a one-week, all-girls hockey camp in Warroad that since expanded to girls and boys, educating practically 2,000 whole campers in 13 years.

NBC Olympic analysis contributed to this report.

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