Meghan Duggan, a women’s ice hockey icon, continuing her legacy through coaching.
Meghan Duggan is a New England native who made it all the way to the Olympics. Duggan was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, which is around 30 minutes from Boston. She has competed in eight world championships and three Winter Olympics.
Duggan started ice skating at the age of 3. She attended the University of Wisconsin while she obtained three NCAA Division I titles. In her senior year, she won the Patty Kazmaier Award. This award is given to the top women’s ice hockey player in the NCAA. She was not only at the top of the leaderboard in all offensive categories, but she was also named an NCAA First-Team All-American.
She started competing in the World Championships in 2007. The team won silver that year. She also competed in the 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 championships. Each of these years, the team won gold.
She was first a part of the Winter Olympics team in 2010. She was still in college at this point, as she didn’t graduate until 2011. They won the silver medal that year. She was then in the 2014 Winter Olympics that Russia hosted. This time around, Duggan had become a captain for the team. They once again won the silver medal. Her final Winter Olympics were in 2018 in South Korea. This time, the team won gold.
In 2021, she was inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame. At the time, she was the fifth woman to be inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame for women’s ice hockey. Today, she is the Director of Player Development for the New Jersey Devils.