Whether or not they chose to exchange rings is one of many details from their wedding they’re currently keeping to themselves, but this pair of hockey champions is now sharing four Olympic gold medals between them.
In a late September ceremony in Pownal, Maine, US Olympic gold medalist Meghan Duggan married her rival on the ice, three-time Olympic gold medalist Gillian Apps of Team Canada.
The pair tied the knot at a private occasion—spurning offers from People, Brides and all other media to cover or even request comments about the event, according to Duggan’s press agent. Nevertheless their Instagram site went viral where Duggan posted now widely circulating photos and called the occasion “the most incredible day of my entire life” with Apps reporting “nothing but smiles after this amazing weekend.”
Duggan, born in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she also grew up, now plays for the Boston Pride in the National Women’s Hockey League. Apps played on Dartmouth College’s Big Green women’s ice hockey team and the Brampton Thunder of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League.
According to the Boston Globe:
Duggan, 31, and Apps, 34, both forwards, are both three-time Olympians and faced off at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, with Apps’s squad getting the better of Duggan’s side. Apps also won gold at the 2006 Turin Games. Duggan finally got her Olympic gold earlier this year when the Americans defeated the Canadians in PyeongChang. The US had lost the previous four Olympic gold medal games to Canada.
Apps, who played for Dartmouth College from 2002-07, served as an assistant coach for the Boston College women’s hockey during the 2016-17 season while Duggan played for the NWHL’s Boston Pride, her current team. Apps left her position at BC to enroll at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
A few of Duggan’s Team USA teammates were bridesmaids in the ceremony, including forward Brianna Decker, defender Kacey Bellamy, and forward Erika Lawler.
Notes Outsports:
We’ve seen this North American hockey marriage before, with American Julie Chu and Canadian Caroline Oullette. Oullette has four Olympic golds, while Chu has three Olympic silvers and a bronze. Earlier this year NWHL players Anya Battaglino and Madison Packer also got engaged.
All four of these women have multiple World Championships.
