Maddie Rooney

At the age of 19, Rooney won a gold medal at the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship as a backup goaltender. She recorded a shutout in her only game of the tournament, which came against Russia in the preliminary round. In 2018, she was again selected to play for the U.S. women's national ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Rooney started all but one of the games in the competition, losing only one game to Canada during the round robin. She helped lead Team USA to the gold medal by winning the shootout in the final against Canada by a score of 3–2, stopping Meghan Agosta in the sixth and last round to end the game. It was the United States' first gold medal at the Olympics since 1998, ending the Canadians' streak of four consecutive Olympic championships.

Rooney plays for the University of Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs in the WCHA conference as part the NCAA's Division I ice hockey league. In her second year, she compiled a save percentage of .942 and a goals against average of 1.65, good for fourth-best and tenth-best in the NCAA respectively.

Madeline S. Rooney (born July 7, 1997) is an American college ice hockey player for the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs. She was the starting goaltender on the U.S. women's hockey team that won the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang with a shootout victory in the final against Canada.

Maddie Rooney was born July 7, 1997 in Duluth, Minnesota. Rooney attended Andover High School. In her senior year of high school, Rooney switched from the girls to the boys varsity team and finished the season with a .910 save percentage.