Sara DeCosta-Hayes
Sara DeCosta-Hayes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born |
Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | May 13, 1977|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st 0 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Goaltender | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Caught | Left | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Played for | Providence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1995–2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Sara Ann DeCosta (born May 13, 1977) is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Biography
She is the daughter of Nancy and Frank DeCosta.[1] She was born in and grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, and is Jewish.[2][3][4][5] She is an alumna of Toll Gate High School, where she played goalie on the boy’s hockey team.[6] DeCosta is married, and the couple has three children.[7]
She attended Providence College ('00), where she was a hockey goalie, and allowed only 177 goals with 2,324 saves in 85 games.[8] She graduated with a degree in social science, with concentrations in sociology and psychology.[8]
She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics (she had three wins, one a shutout, with a 1.59 goals-against average and a .875 save percentage) and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics , where she had the best goals-against average and save percentage.[7][8][9]
She won a World Championship silver medal in 2000, had the best GAA (0.50) and the best SVS% (.975) at the 2001 World Championship where she again won a silver medal, and had the best GAA (1.00) and the best SVS% (.948) at the 2002 World Championship where she again won a silver medal.[9]
DeCosta was USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year in 2000.[4] In 2002-03, she was a volunteer coach for the women's hockey team at Providence.[4] She was the goaltending coach for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team in 2008-09.[4][10]
DeCosta was named by Brandeis University, a contemporary Jewish sports heroine.[11][12]
Awards and honors
See also
References
- ↑ Document Title
- ↑ DeCosta, Sara: Jews In Sports
- ↑ Jewish Sports Stars: Athletic Heroes Past and Present - David J. Goldman - Google Books
- 1 2 3 4 Sara DeCosta Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- ↑ Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler
- ↑ "R.I.'s Sara DeCosta-Hayes, ex-hockey Olympian, works out to stay fit and have fun" / Gallery - Lifestyle - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI
- 1 2 "R.I.'s Sara DeCosta-Hayes, ex-hockey Olympian, works out to stay fit and have fun" / Gallery - Lifestyle - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI
- 1 2 3 For love of the game: Olympic medalist "Sara DeCosta-Hayes ’00" – PC News
- 1 2 "Sara DeCosta" - Eliteprospects.com
- ↑ "Sara DeCosta" - Eliteprospects.com
- ↑ "Contributions of long-overlooked Jewish sports heroines finally recognized" (PDF). Brandeis University. The Hadassah Brandeis Institute. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- 1 2 "RI Hockey Hall of Fame to honor six inductees" | Johnston Sun Rise
- ↑ "Annual Awards - Through the Years". USA Hockey. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010.