At 28 years old, Knight was no spring chicken on this year’s gold-medal team. But Pyeongchang also wasn’t her first rodeo. Not by a long shot. A Palo Alto, Calif., native, she became a national name at just 17 when, in 2006, she was tabbed as the youngest player for Team USA in the annual Four Nations Cup tournament. A year after that, she was already starring for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and debuting for the U.S. at the IIHF World Championship, where she was also the youngest USA representative.
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