Monday, August 3, 2015

U.S. Hall Honors Class of 2015

Drury, DeGregorio, Ruggiero among honorees announced by USA Hockey.

U.S. Hall Honors Class of 2015
Left to right: Chris Drury, Ron DeGregorio and Angela Ruggiero are among the 2015 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame honorees.

Boston University Hobey Baker Award winner Chris Drury is among the four-member U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2015, announced Monday by USA Hockey.

Drury, who won the 1995 NCAA title and ’98 Hobey while with the Terriers, is joined by fellow NCAA alums Angela Ruggiero (Harvard) and Ron DeGregorio (Middlebury) as well as Mathieu Schneider in the 2015 class. The class will be inducted on Thursday, Dec. 17, in Boston.

USA Hockey Announcement | NCAA Hall of Fame Honorees

Drury is one of Boston University’s most celebrated alums, having earned USA Hockey’s College Player of the Year and Hockey East’s Player of the Year in both 1997 and ’98. The school’s all-time leading goal scorer (113), he went on to a successful NHL career that included the Calder Trophy as the rookie of the year in 1999. He won the Stanley Cup in 2001.

Drury represented the U.S. at eight major international events, capturing three medals.

DeGregorio joins the Hall after spending more than 40 years as a volunteer and leader in USA Hockey, most recently serving as president of the organization for 12 years.

The former Middlebury goaltender was instrumental in the launch of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, USA Hockey’s American Development Model, and many other initiatives that have developed the sport in the U.S.

Ruggiero, who is also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s class of 2015, played 256 games for the U.S. National Team, the most of any player in history. She won an Olympic gold medal in 1998, her first of four Olympic medals.

At Harvard, Ruggiero was a four-time All-American, an Academic All-American, a national champion (1999) and a Patty Kazmaier Award recipient (2004).