A. J. Mleczko
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June 14, 1975 Nantucket, Massachusetts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st 6 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ECAC team | Harvard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1993–2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Allison Jaime "A.J." Mleczko Griswold is an American ice hockey player and analyst. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Born June 14, 1975 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Mleczko attended New Canaan Country School and is a graduate of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. Mleczko played college hockey at Harvard University, where she led Crimson to a national title in 1999.[1] That same year she became the second winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award, which is awarded annually to the best female college ice hockey player in the United States.[2] On September 24, 2002 she was inducted into the New England Women's Hall of Fame.[1] She is a hockey commentator for the NBC Sports Group and MSG Networks, and she became the first woman to commentate for an NHL playoff game.[3][4]
Mleczko was inducted June 20, 2019 into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame located in Troy, Michigan. Her paternal great-grandparents were Polish immigrants.[5]
Mleczko currently resides in Concord, Massachusetts with her husband, Jason, and their four children.[3]
Awards and honors
- 1999 American Women's College Hockey Alliance All-Americans, First Team[6]
- Patty Kazmaier Award
- 1999 USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year Award (also known as the Bob Allen Women's Player of the Year award) [7]
- Women's Beanpot Hall of Fame (inducted 2011)[8]
References
- ^ a b DateSeptember 19, 2002 (2002-09-19). "Newsmakers – Harvard Gazette". News.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "A. J. Mleczko Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ a b "AJ Mleczko". MSGNetworks.com. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^ "AJ Mleczko". NBC Sports Pressbox. 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ "Allison "AJ" Mleczko – NPASHF". Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^ "American Hockey Coaches Association". Ahcahockey.com. 1997-07-08. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Annual Awards - Through the Years". USA Hockey. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ^ "Women's Beanpot: Hall of Fame". Beanpothockey.com. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
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- 1975 births
- American women's ice hockey forwards
- Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey players
- Ice hockey people from Massachusetts
- Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in ice hockey
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey
- Patty Kazmaier Award winners
- People from Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Taft School alumni
- Women sports announcers
- American ice hockey biography stubs