Position: | Forward |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 7 |
Weight Lb: | 130 |
Team: | Harvard |
League: | ECAC |
Sex: | f |
Ntl Team: | USA |
Birth Date: | 24 August 1970 |
Birth Place: | Saugus, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Career Start: | 1989 |
Career End: | 1998 |
Sandra Whyte-Sweeney (born August 24, 1970) is an American ice hockey player.
She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.[1] In the gold medal game, Whyte assisted on her team's first two goals and scored an empty-net goal to seal the United States' 3-1 win over Canada. It was the first gold medal awarded in women's ice hockey in Olympic history.
Whyte-Sweeney has stayed connected to the Olympic movement. She participated in the United States Olympic Committee's Summit program. These are a series of conferences that unite former Olympic gold medalists with medal hopefuls for the next Games with the goal of helping them mentally prepare for the challenge.[2]