February 2, 2006  Women's Hockey Alumn Kathleen Kauth '01
Featured in NY Times  Feb. 2, 2006  Roundabout Route Leads to
Turin Good news came to Kathleen Kauth in the same way
disappointment had.  Last month, Ben Smith, coach of the United
States women's hockey team, gathered his players in a hotel
meeting room in Trenton to announce the names of those who did
not make the final cut for the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Four years earlier in a similar meeting, Smith called Kauth's
name. This time, Kauth said, she felt she had done enough to
make the team, but her stomach still tingled with nervousness.
When Smith finished without naming her, Kauth called home to her
mother, Anne, an English teacher at Saratoga Springs High School
in upstate New York.  "I knew her heart rate had been racing the
previous 48 hours," Kauth said. "I really had to ease her
worries."  She added with a chuckle: "She was giddy. You don't
know your mother could get giddy that often, but she got giddy.
Then, being the English teacher