Meghan Duggan, captain of the 2018 U.S. Olympic champion hockey team, is announcing her retirement on Tuesday, ending the career of one of sport’s great leaders.
Duggan, a three-time Olympian, is the only man or woman to captain both NCAA champion and Olympic champion hockey teams.
She is the first player from the 2018 Olympic team to announce her retirement, leading a special group that claimed the first U.S. Olympic hockey title since women’s hockey debuted at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games.
“It’s the absolute greatest honor in the world for our team,” Duggan told NBC Sports’ Pierre McGuire moments after walking off the ice after the PyeongChang final shootout, what turned out to be her last game.