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...seen sports and hockey as a means,” Ruggiero says. “They’ve enabled me to get where...
...That’s right. Even lady skaters are getting into the publishing game. Over the course of several months this past spring, Harvard legend and soon-to-be three-time U.S. Olympian Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 traded in her skates for a pen and scribed Breaking the Ice: My Journey to Olympic Hockey, the Ivy League, and Beyond, already on bookshelves...
...finished product is a heartfelt autobiography, an earnest account of how Ruggiero, through her gifts on the rink, overcame a difficult childhood and transcended expectations on the way to international fame and success...
...Ruggiero progresses in her story, which takes her from a gritty upbringing in Southern California to prestigious schools in the east, to Olympiads in Nagano and Salt Lake City, and on to a role as humanitarian and ambassador of her sport around the world, she is careful to show how she has matured as both a player and a person...
...Directed at a teenage audience, girls growing up playing hockey that Ruggiero aims to inspire to pursue their ambitions, the prose at times comes off as silly or childish, but it is stilted in the name of getting through to the younger generation of female Olympic hopefuls...