Meghan Agosta Not Best This Season, But Best Of All-Time?
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Being nominated for a major award is an honour for any athlete. Being nominated four times for the same major award without winning, can drag on your spirits. For Megan Agosta, a former Chatham Outlaws and Chatham-Kent Cyclones hockey player, she saw this situation become a reality recently as she failed to win the Patty Katzmaier Award last weekend, as the NCAA’s top female hockey player for the 4th consecutive season.
Failure however, shouldn’t be a word associated with the resilient and talented Agosta. Afterall, the 24-year-old forward is graduating from Mercyhurst University as the all-time leading scorer in NCAA women’s hockey. Agosta also captured a gold medal with Team Canada’s Olympic Team this winter in Vancouver, where she was named Olympic MVP. This, was her second Olympic Gold as she also won the 2006 gold in Turin, and has one World Championship gold medal to boot. Not bad for someone who is just beginning a career and life away from hockey; at least away from college hockey.
Agosta, who will soon be married, is moving to Quebec with her fiancee, and still plans to play for Team Canada in upcoming international competitions.
With so much going for her, it’s no wonder Agosta told TSN that individual awards like the Patty Katzmaier Trophy are things she’s never thought about.
A four-time All-American, and captain of her Mercyhurst team, Agosta is the only woman in the history of NCAA hockey to reach the 300 point plateau, finishing her career with 303 points; 157 of those being goals, another NCAA record.
Meghan Agosta was nominated four times for the NCAA’s top individual hockey award. This year, Wisconsin’s Meghan Duggan won the award.
This award however, measures the best player in the nation during a single season. Agosta never claimed that single season honour, but her four year career speaks for itself. She may not be this season’s, or last year’s “best” player, but she will go down as arguably the best player in NCAA women’s hockey, of all-time.