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  Cammie Granato Biography | Sports Stars
Unlike her brothers, however, Granato learned at an early age that she would never be able to play in the National Hockey League (NHL) because she was a girl.
Granato was the captain of the gold medal winning U.S. women's hockey team at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Catherine Michelle Granato was born in Downers Grove, Illinois on March 25, 1971.
www.bookrags.com /biography/cammie-granato-spo   (181 words)

  
 U.S. women smash China in hockey - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
Granato would pick up the hat trick less than five minutes later, early in the third on a pass from Julie Chu, as the defending Olympic champions secured a spot in the medal round with their second impressive victory of these Games.
Granato, sister of former NHL player Tony Granato, has been the face of women's ice hockey in America since becoming a member of the country's first national team in 1990.
Granato gave the U.S. a 3-0 lead late in the first period when she picked up a loose puck outside the blue line, charged to the top of the right face-off circle and put a long wrister behind Chinese goalie Hong Guo.
deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70000741,00.html   (704 words)

  
 The Gazette: Winter Olympics 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Granato said she was at a game once and two USA Hockey officials saw her and walked the other way.
Granato is at least partially annoyed at coach Ben Smith, who made the decision to cut Granato and Shelley Looney, 33.
Granato is hardly the first athlete to be told that a younger player has taken her spot, but it is the first time it’s happened to her.
www.gazette.com /olympics/display.php?id=1314715   (748 words)

  
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April 19 was Cammi Granato day in her hometown of Downers Grove, IL.
Cammi was born in the same year that the Duffers started skating at the Downers Grove Icearena.
Cammi holds her niece as she waits for the Parade to begin.
www.geocities.com /glopatka/cammiday.html   (101 words)

  
 Cammi Granato Biography | Team USA | Women's Ice Hockey | Olympics | Picture
Cammi wanted to play organized hockey when she was a kid, but there were no leagues for girls in Downers Grove, Illinois where she grew up.
Cammi began playing for the US womens hockey team in 1990 and led TEAM USA to the first Olympic gold medal in women's hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Cammi is now working on getting ready for the 2002 Winter Olympics which start February 8th.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p1543.htm   (333 words)

  
 US puts veteran Granato on ice - The Boston Globe
The 34-year-old Granato, who'd captained both the 1998 and 2002 squads, had made every US global team since 1990 and had scored 10 goals in the Olympics and 47 in nine world tournaments.
Granato and Looney, the two oldest players, clearly were on the bubble.
When the roster was announced without Granato and Looney, though, their former teammates confessed to shock.
www.boston.com /sports/hockey/minors/articles/2005/08/26/us_puts_veteran_granato_on_ice   (803 words)

  
 OLYMPICS
After the 1998 Olympics, Cammi was hired by the LA Kings as a radio color commentator, making her the only woman broadcaster in the NHL and only the second in League history.
Cammi will talk about their events, the training involved to get to the TORINO Games (including diet, exercise, and practice regimes) and the importance of support groups, like family, coaches, and corporate sponsors, in helping athletes get to the Olympics.
Cammi Granato was team captain of that women’s team and carried the flag for the United States in the closing ceremonies.
www.dmswire.com /OLYMPICS.htm   (304 words)

  
 Cammi Granato 2002 Olympic News
Granato was the captain of the American team that won the gold medal at Nagano in the first Olympic women's hockey tournament.
Granato had known for several weeks that she would be part of the torch relay inside the stadium.
Granato got to meet the president, she got to carry the Olympic torch, she got to hand it to the captain of the team that helped shape her goals.
www.lopatka.net /cammi-news.htm   (3047 words)

  
 Sports: Granato continues to prove that she can
Cammi Granato has heard that nearly every day of her 27 years.
Cammi, though, is a very confident individual and she knows the game.
Granato said she's trying to remain patient, and credits Nickson with helping her through the awkward stages as they try to build an on-air chemistry.
www.sptimes.com /Sports/102398/Granato_continues_to_.html   (895 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - U.S. veteran Granato not ready to retire from hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
VANCOUVER — Cammi Granato still struggles to make peace with the reality that she will be analyzing the U.S. women's hockey team for NBC instead of leading it when the Olympics begin.
Granato hasn't skated since she was cut, but she hasn't officially retired.
Granato lives in Vancouver with her husband, Ray Ferraro, the former NHL player who also will be an NBC analyst.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/winter/2006-01-08-granato-hockey_x.htm   (794 words)

  
 Cammi Granato: An Olympic flame burns on ice
 NEW YORK (AP) -- The torch Cammi Granato has carried since age 5 -- when she used to skip figure skating lessons to watch hockey practice -- was not extinguished by an Olympic gold medal.
Granato said she has talked to Ed Saunders, the founder of the proposed league, but not since last summer.
 Since her arrival in New York on Monday, Granato has appeared on "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee." It was at dinner at a Mexican restaurant, however, that she discovered just what an impact the women's hockey gold medal had made.
www.canoe.ca /SlamNaganoHockeyWomen/feb25_cammi.html   (547 words)

  
 MercuryNews.com | 01/17/2006 | Um, hockey guys, where is Cammi?
Granato is the face of her sport, a Mia Hamm on skates.
Granato said she was never told she was on the bubble.
Cammi Granato said Smith thought she was too old, adding that he was saying that even in Salt Lake City.
www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/13642307.htm   (870 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Granato left off '06 roster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cammi Granato, the face and driving force of U.S. women's hockey as it emerged over the last decade, will not play in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Granato was left off the USA's 22-player roster Thursday for its pre-Olympic tour, likely marking the end of her international playing career and an era.
Granato was among 40 players invited to a training camp that began Aug. 18 in Lake Placid.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/winter/2005-08-25-granato-cut_x.htm   (472 words)

  
 Cammi Granato Bio
Cammi is one of three players who have been with the US women's national team program since its inception and is the leading scorer in the history of the National team.
After the Olympics, Cammi was hired by the LA Kings as a radio color commentator, making her the only woman broadcaster in the NHL and only the second in League history.
Cammi has been listed as one of the top ten dominant women in world hockey.
www.granatohockey.com /cammi_granato.html   (210 words)

  
 Print Cammi Granato Biography -- AEI Speakers Bureau
Granato competed in all six games for the undefeated Americans and had the third highest point total in the tournament with 4 goals and 4 assists.
Granato is the only member of Team USA to play in all seven International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) women's World Championships (1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001) and is the all time leading U.S. scorer at worlds with 72 points (43 goals and 29 assists).
During her four years at Providence, Granato totaled 256 points in 99 games, she was a three time ECAC Player of the Year, and she completed her college career as the Friars' all time leading goal scorer (139).
www.aeispeakers.com /print.php?SpeakerID=450   (430 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NHL - Granato? Well, why not?
Granato, the Chicago-area native who played four seasons at the University of Wisconsin, is an American coach hired by a GM who sometimes has been accused of underrating U.S.-bred talent.
Granato is adamant that his final four seasons in the NHL, with San Jose, were a virtual player-coach experience, since he was presented with leadership mandates.
The Granato family, of course, also is renowned in the game for the play of Tony's younger sister, two-time Olympian Cammi Granato.
espn.go.com /nhl/columns/frei_terry/1479385.html   (1238 words)

  
 Columns - The Enquirer - January 29, 1997
Cammi Granato has never lacked for motivation, even when there was no lasting goal to motivate her.
When Cammi Granato went to Providence College, she began by following her brothers' example, and was penalized three times in her first game because the women's rules forbid checking.
Cammi Granato, 26, appreciated the offer, but not as much as her Olympic opportunity.
www.enquirer.com /columns/sullivan/1998/01/012998_ts.html   (704 words)

  
 women|sport
Granato was in China in January with the U.S. women's hockey team for a four-game, character-building tour-if Brillo-pad-sized roaches and backed-up toilets in the locker room actually do build character.
Cammi, 26, is a better player in her universe than Tony is in his-universes that are separate and unequal but no more estranged from each other than women's and men's basketball.
Granato knew the invitation sounded like a gimmick-the sorry Islanders are the third of the three New York area hockey teams, and a woman in camp could have spawned no man is an islander headlines on tabloid back pages-but it also might be an opportunity.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /features/1997/womenmag/icequeen.html   (1609 words)

  
 Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
A nine-time member of the U.S. National Women's Ice Hockey Team, Cammi Granato is the leading scorer in the history of the U.S. Captain of the 2002 U.S. women's Olympic ice hockey team, Granato led the team to a silver medal at the Olympic Games and led the U.S team in goals scored.
In June 1997, Granato was invited to attend a training camp with the National Hockey League's (NHL) New York Islanders, becoming the first female position player to earn an invite to NHL training camp.
In 1998, Granato was hired as an analyst for the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL to do radio broadcasts on KRLA in Los Angeles.
www.womenssportsfoundation.org /cgi-bin/iowa/athletes/record.html?record=855   (344 words)

  
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Cammi Granato is in the right place at the right time for women's hockey.
She's been preparing for it for years, and she's going to be a great ambassador for the game.'' Granato, 26, has been preparing for the role all her life, though she may not have known it until a few years ago.
Family time was hockey time for the Granatos, and when she wasn't practicing with her four brothers, she was competing as the lone girl in boys leagues.
www.whockey.com /news/article/1997/wwc97_970404_article13.txt   (757 words)

  
 Merrill Lynch Welcomes Olympic Gold Medalists Dominique Dawes and Cammi Granato to 'Take Our Daughters To Work' Day
Cammi Granato was the captain of the gold-medal-winning U.S. women's ice hockey team at the 1997 Nagano games.
Granato will be broadcast live to Merrill Lynch branch offices around the country and girls in those offices will be able to take part in the question and answer sessions.
Cammi Granato began playing ice hockey with her brothers in their hometown of Downers Grove, Illinois, when she was 5 years old.
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 Atlanta Thrashers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cammi Granato is to U.S. women's ice hockey what Mia Hamm is to U.S. women's soccer.
Granato, who currently lives - and plays - in Vancouver, is the only woman ever to receive an invitation for a tryout by an NHL team (she turned down the New York Islanders' offer, opting instead to train for the '98 Olympics).
Last Friday, Granato was in town to speak at the Bank of America Speaker Series presented by Corp-Net as well as run a Saturday morning clinic with teammate Shelley Looney.
www.atlantathrashers.com /View.aspx?CID01=a9d91f95-13ab-4cc3-ab78-ec2561067ca2   (1080 words)

  
 STLtoday - Sports - Special Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cammi Granato is congratulated by teammates after beating Swedish goalie Kim Martin (foreground) in the first period.
Captain Cammi Granato scored two goals, one while lying flat on the ice, as America defeated Sweden 4-0 on Tuesday at the E Center.
Granato said she felt the team was a little sluggish coming out against Sweden.
www.stltoday.com /stltoday/sports/special/2002wintolymp.nsf/0/3F7B4CF260E33CDE86256B660020BF13?OpenDocument   (677 words)

  
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Cammi Granato, the face of women's hockey, figured the 2006 Olympics would be her last before she retired, leaving the game to a generation of girls and women who grew up with her poster on their walls.
Granato had talked about delaying retirement to reclaim the gold medal, which the U.S. team lost to Canada in the 2002 Games.
Granato, a forward and sister to former Colorado Avalanche coach Tony, has been compared with soccer's Mia Hamm, who retired after winning gold in the 2004 Games in Athens after becoming the sport's icon and overseeing substantial growth and popularity in her sport.
usoc.gazette.com /fullstory.php?id=5367   (598 words)

  
 Page 'o' Cammi
Before attending Providence College, Cammi had mostly played on all boys teams, but she still excelled in the women's teams...
After her eligibility to play college hockey expired, Cammi went on to play for Concordia University in Canada where she was merely another top player among Canada's best.
Her cousin recognized me from work, which surprised me. Cammi and Sarah were really nice and easy to talk to.
members.tripod.com /~icequeen79/cammi.htm   (345 words)

  
 Cammi Granato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Catherine Michelle "Cammi" Granato (born March 25, 1971 in Downers Grove, Illinois) is probably the best-known American female ice hockey player.
She is a native of Downers Grove, the younger sister of former NHL player Tony Granato, and a graduate of Providence College.
She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has played in every world championship for the U.S. She is married to former NHL player Ray Ferraro, and currently is a rinkside reporter for NBC's NHL game coverage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cammi_Granato   (178 words)

  
 CNN/SI - 1999 NHL All-Star Game - Cammi Granato All-Star good as gold - Sunday January 24, 1999 08:40 AM
She was a hit, too, with her teammates, and the Ice Palace crowd, which roared as loudly for her as it did for NHL luminaries like Rod Gilbert and Daryl Sittler.
Granato joined in on the game's traditional Harlem Globetrotter-ish hi-jinks, and even scored on NHL Heroes goalie Darren Pang -- albeit in television cahoots.
Women's hockey still lacks a professional league, however, and Granato, who aims to participate in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, is momentarily confined to here-and-there international tournaments.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/nhl/1999/allstar/news/1999/01/23/allstar_granato   (839 words)

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