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A parade of the world鈥檚 best athletes will enter the PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on Feb. 9 to kick off the 2018 Winter Games, and among them will be a handful of 易胜博官网 Wildcats. One freshman and four alumni will go for gold as members of 听and . If you鈥檙e lucky enough to be there cheering them on, share your photos @UofNH. If not, hunker down, glue your eyes to the screen and show your Wildcat pride! #Go易胜博官网

易胜博官网 Wildcats on 2018 Olympic Teams*

Kacey Bellamy 鈥�09 led 易胜博官网 to a Hockey East Championship in 2008-09, and now in her third Winter Games, this time as one of the team鈥檚 assistant captains. Bellamy already sports Olympic bling in the form of two silver medals 鈥� one from the 2014 Games in Sochi, where she contributed a goal and an assist in five games, and one from the 2010 Games in Vancouver, where she contributed an assist.

Robert 鈥淏obby鈥� Butler 鈥�10 has been to the men鈥檚 ice hockey team. A graduate of the , Butler was named 2010 Hockey East Player of the Year during his senior year at 易胜博官网. Today he plays for the in the American Hockey League. Want to be moved to tears?听.

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Clare Egan 鈥�12G in her first Olympics as a member of the 2018听. At 易胜博官网, Egan was the women鈥檚 Nordic team MVP and a member of the cross-country and track and field teams. She won the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2011 America East Championships. Egan is now the 13th Olympian in the history of the 易胜博官网 skiing program.听

Annika Taylor 鈥�15听has been to Great Britain鈥檚 Nordic听team. Taylor for the Wildcats during her time as a chemistry student at 易胜博官网, where she was two-time team MVP. During her senior year, Taylor five victories, four second-place finishes and one third-place result.听

Noah Grove 鈥�21 will take the ice in March as a of the 2018 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team. Grove is a freshman in the . It鈥檚 his first appearance at the Paralympics, and in PyeongChang he鈥檒l join veteran teammates, including eight who played on the gold-medal winning team at Sochi in 2014.听

Other alumni athletes will serve as staff at the Games. , a former听易胜博官网 Nordic ski team member,听will travel to PyeongChang as a U.S. Ski Team employee and coach, while his former Nordic teammate will work as a service technician, collaborating closely with coaches and skiers to prepare equipment for competition.

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*Team members are still being selected, so stay tuned for potential Wildcat additions to听this list!听

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