Maddie Rooney

Maddie Rooney was in net for the United States women's national team when they ended a two-decade drought and claimed gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. That performance also earned Rooney the Bob Allen Women's Player of the Year Award that same year, given annually to the outstanding American-born women's ice hockey player.

Born July 7, 1997, in Andover, Minnesota, Rooney played four seasons in goal for the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs, spanning 2015 to 2020. In that time she accumulated more games played (122) and more minutes (7,277:49) than any other goaltender in program history. She also holds the UMD record for career saves with 3,449, and owns three of the top four single-season save records in Bulldog history — part of a run that includes two separate seasons in which she surpassed 1,000 saves, one of only two UMD goaltenders to do so.

Her international career extended well beyond 2018. Rooney returned to the Olympic stage for the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, where the U.S. brought home silver. She also represented the country at four IIHF Women's World Championships — in 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021 — competing in three of those tournaments and collecting gold medals in 2017 and 2019, and a silver in 2022.

Before the PWHL launched, Rooney competed in the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association circuit, playing three games with Minnesota during the 2020–21 season and appearing in nine games with Team adidas during the 2022–23 PWHPA season, going 5-0-0 in that final season before the new league began. She now plays for the Minnesota Frost, wearing number 35.

InGoal Magazine has covered Maddie Rooney in one podcast appearance. On InGoal Radio episode 243, recorded in February 2024, host Kevin Woodley sat down with Rooney ^[1].