Kathleen Kauth made the pre-Olympic cut for the 2002 US women’s hockey cut, which made her father, Don Kauth, quite proud. Kauth would not make the final cut for the 2002 Olympic team, but it paled in comparison to her trauma when her father was killed on 9/11 while working in the World Trade Center for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. Kauth had only recently graduated from Brown University in 2001, majoring in pre-med, but she continued on in hockey, playing for the US at the 2003 Four Nations Cup and the 2004 and 2005 World Championships, winning a gold medal in 2005 with the US, and then making her father even prouder by playing for the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Kauth had been captain of the hockey team at Brown in her senior year. She also played with the Brampton Thunder of the National Women’s Hockey League. Putting off medical school to play in the Olympics, she later earned a masters’ of public health (MPH) at Boston University, and while playing for the Thunder, did research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, Kathleen Kauth watched the World Trade Center Flag brought into the Olympic Stadium. She then walked over to the Armenian and Iranian delegations and extended her hand in friendship, the gesture of a sportsperson and an Olympian.
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