From the Times-News photo archive: Winter Olympians Caryn Kadavy, Ryan Zapolski, Meghan Agosta, more
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This week we present the nine winter Olympians with Erie connections. At the top of the list are Erie natives Caryn Kadavy, a figure skater in the 1988 Calgary Games, and Ryan Zapolski, a hockey goaltender in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
The other American was Jim Craig, the starting goaltender on the Miracle on Ice hockey team in 1980 at Lake Placid, New York. After the Olympics, he played briefly for the minor league Erie Blades.
Mercyhurst University has produced five Olympians, all in hockey: Zapolski, Meghan Agosta-Marciano, who won three gold medals and a silver in four Olympics, and her fellow Canadian Bailey Bram. Vilma Tanskanen and Emma Nuutinen played for Finland in the 2014 and 2018 Olympics, respectively.
Two Erie Otters players also are winter Olympians. Arvid Rekis, who played for the Otters from 1996-2000, represented Latvia at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. Sondre Olden, a member of the Otters in 2011-12, played for Norway in 2014.
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Caryn Kadavy twirls on the ice during a short program presentation in the Olympic women's figure skating, Feb. 25, 1988, in Calgary, Canada. Kadavy finished fifth in this event. The first Erie native to take part in a Winter Olympics, in Calgary, she was in sixth place overall after the performance shown here, but withdrew from competition with the flu.
Three-time Olympic hockey gold medalist and former Mercyhurst University star Meghan Agosta-Marciano, then 27, displays her gold medal from Sochi, Russia during an autograph session at the Erie school on March 7, 2014. Agosta was a forward on the Division I Mercyhurst women's hockey team from 2006 -2011. She starred for the Canadian national hockey team, helping Team Canada win gold medals in Turin, Italy in 2006; Vancouver, Canada in 2010; Sochi, Russia in 2014 and a silver medal in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018. In Sochi, Agosta was Canada's top scorer with nine goals and six assists.
Jim Craig, the hockey goaltender who helped the U.S. win a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics, is framed by a display featuring the jerseys, skates and goaltending equipment he wore in the Soviet and Finland games as well as the iconic American flag that was draped over his shoulders after the gold medal win, as he poses for a photo, on May 24, 2016, in New York. Craig also played 13 games during the 1981-82 season for the minor league Erie Blades, which, at the time, was an AHL affiliate for the Boston Bruins. Craig played 30 games for three NHL teams in the early 1980s.
Canada forward Jonathan Toews, at left, is checked by Latvia defenseman Arvids Rekis, at right during the second period of a men's quarterfinal ice hockey game, Feb. 19, 2014, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Rekis, who played for the Otters from 1996-2000, represented Latvia at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
Erie Otters left winger Sondre Olden, center, looks to pass during a hockey game at what was then called Tullio Arena in Erie on Dec. 3, 2011. Olden also played for Norway in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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