Sara DeCosta

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United StatesUnited States  Sara DeCosta Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 13, 1977
place of birth Warwick , Rhode Island , USA
size 178 cm
Weight 64 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
1992-1996 Great Gate High School
1996-2000 Providence College
1996-2002 USA hockey

Sara Ann DeCosta , married. DeCosta-Hayes , (born May 13, 1977 in Warwick , Rhode Island ) is a former American ice hockey goalkeeper and coach of Jewish origin. DeCosta was from 1996 to 2002 a member of the women's national ice hockey team of the United States and was with this Olympic champion at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano .

Career

DeCosta spent her high school years at Toll Gate High School in her native Warwick until 1996 . There she was part of the boys' team, but was still one of the top performers in the team in 1995 and 1996. For the 1996/97 school year, the goalkeeper moved to Providence College . In addition to her studies, DeCosta played hockey for the university team in the ECAC . After just her first year, she left college for a season and was signed by the US ice hockey association USA Hockey . The previous year she had made her debut in the 1996 Pacific Ice Hockey Championship for the United States women's national ice hockey team. With the US association, the goalkeeper prepared specifically for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . Among other things, she completed the 3 Nations Cup in 1997 , in which the Americans achieved their first ever victory over Canada and the Canadian team for the first time in its history did not score a goal of its own. DeCosta booked the shutout in the 3-0 final win. Together with Sarah Tueting , she then formed the US goalkeeper team at the women's ice hockey tournament, which was held for the first time as part of the 1998 Winter Games. There she crowned her career by winning the gold medal when Canada was beaten twice during the tournament.

The goalkeeper then returned to Providence College for two years, but was also active for the United States women's national ice hockey team. So she contested the World Cup in 2000 - again in a team with Tueting - and won the silver medal. That same year she was one of the finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award , which Ali Brewer won. In preparation for the 2002 Winter Olympics in her home town of Salt Lake City , DeCosta left the university prematurely after her third year of school in the summer of 2000 with a degree in social sciences , which she had made possible, among other things, by taking summer courses. She then joined USA Hockey again, completed the 2001 World Cup as the statistically best goalkeeper and again won silver. She completed her second Winter Olympics at the Salt Lake City Winter Games and returned home from there with a silver medal. Once again she had shared the goalkeeping post with Tueting and had the statistically best values ​​of all goalkeepers. Following the Olympic Games, DeCosta ended her active career.

She returned to Providence College for the 2002/03 school year, where she volunteered as a goalkeeping coach. This was followed by a year as an assistant trainer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In the 2008/09 season, she again volunteered as a goalkeeping coach at Harvard University .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2001 Best catch quota in the World Cup
  • 2002 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2002 Lowest conceded goals in the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2002 Best catch quota at the Olympic Winter Games

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c DeCosta, Sara. In: Jewish Sports Review. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ Vicki-Ann Downing: For love of the game: Olympic medalist Sara DeCosta-Hayes '00. Providence College , October 19, 2016, accessed March 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME DeCosta, Sara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeCosta-Hayes, Sara Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Warwick , Rhode Island