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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 28, 2004

USA Hockey To Salute Award Winners During Annual Congress

Event To Be Held June 2-6 In Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- USA Hockey today announced the 10 athletes, 
coaches, officials, administrators and volunteers who will be honored for their 
excellence, dedication and contributions to the sport of hockey in the United 
States. The winners will be recognized at the 2004 USA Hockey Annual Congress, to 
be held here June 2-6 at the Sheraton Colorado Springs Hotel. 

The USA Hockey Annual Congress is the yearly gathering of USA Hockey's 
volunteer leadership, including members of the organization's board of directors, 
councils, committees and sections.

The following is an overview of the individuals who will be honored during 
USA Hockey's Annual Congress:  (I have listed only Angela Ruggiero and Carl Gray 
here, see the USA Hockey website for all 10 individuals.)

USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year
Presented by Chevrolet
Angela Ruggiero, Harper Woods, Mich.
2004 U.S. Women's National Team/Harvard University

The nation's top-scoring defenseman in 2003-04, Angela Ruggiero further 
established herself as the most dominant player at her position in women's hockey. 
She ranked tenth in the nation and third on the Harvard University squad in 
overall scoring with 45 points (20 goals and 25 assists) in 26 regular-season 
games. Her 20 goals and 25 assists ranked eighth in the nation in both goals and 
assists per game. Captain of the Crimson, she averaged 1.73 points-per-game 
through the regular season and registered five game-winning goals to tie her 
for seventh in the country.

Ruggiero finished conference play ranked second in scoring by a defenseman, 
with 25 points (12 goals and 13 assists). She was named the Ivy League Player 
of the Year for her efforts, while helping lead Harvard to the co-Regular 
Season Championship, and a No. 1 seeding in the Eastern College Athletic Conference 
(ECAC) playoffs. Last year's USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year also 
steered Harvard to the NCAA Frozen Four and a second-place finish in Providence, 
R.I.

In March Ruggiero was awarded The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given 
annually to the most outstanding player in NCAA Division I women's hockey. That 
month Ruggiero also helped the U.S. Women's National Team earn the silver medal at 
the International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship in 
Halifax, Nova Scotia. She led the tournament in scoring by a defenseman, registering 
seven points on two goals and five assists.

USA Hockey annually salutes the accomplishments of an outstanding 
American-born women's ice hockey player with the USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year 
Award.


 Wm. Thayer Tutt Award
Carl Gray, Concord, Mass.

In 32 years as the founder and director of the Assabet Valley (Mass.) girls' 
hockey program, Carl Gray has given thousands of girls an opportunity they 
otherwise would not have had to learn and enjoy the sport of hockey. At the same 
time he has developed future U.S. National and Olympic Team Members such as 
Laurie Baker, Cindy Curley, Kelly Dyer, Cammi Granato and Shelley Looney. 

Gray has spent most of his adult life helping to grow and improve the game of 
women's hockey. In his time with the Assabet Valley girls' hockey program he 
has guided his teams to 26 USA Hockey National Championships, including the 
title in the 12-and-Under and 14-and-Under divisions in 2004. His teams have 
been runners-up in the National Championships 22 times; have won 63 state and 
regional championships, 46 league championships, and 107 tournament 
championships.

A passion for giving girls the same opportunities that their male 
counterparts were given is what inspired Carl Gray to begin the Assabet program. What he 
created is an all-inclusive yet prestigious program that has helped grow the 
sport from the grassroots level.

Gray graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., in 1963 with a 
bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering. He worked for 31 years 
at the Charles Stark Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., and retired in February 
1994. While at Charles Stark, Gray worked on the Apollo Program throughout the 
1960s, which measured the Earth's horizon. He also worked on the Space 
Shuttle Program in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Gray's extensive coaching experience includes guiding Team USA at the first 
senior-level international women's tournament in Toronto, Ontario that became a 
precursor to the International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World 
Championship. In 1988 he served as a member of the USA Hockey's Girls'/Women's Section, 
on which he still holds a seat. He served as a camp director in 1991 and 1993 
for USA Hockey's Women's Development Camps, and was the East Team General 
Manager at the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival. 



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