Next to Drury, Peter Ciavaglia is probably best remembered by Harvard students. The 5'10" center has compensated for his small size by being a finesse player.
"He's a magician with the puck...[with] tremendous discipline...and can slip and slide his way Ciavaglia's Olympic highlight occurred thisyear against Italy, when he earned a goal and anassist to help the U.S. to victory. Ciavaglia was a well-recognized player aHarvard as well. As a senior, he was a finalistfor the 1991 Hobey Backer Award and was named 1991ECAC Player of the Year. In 1989, Ciavaglia scored a team high of 63points en route to the school's nationalchampionship. At Harvard, Ciavaglia played on the "DynamiteLite" front line with captain Ted Donato '91 andMike Vukonich '91. Taylor, Team USA's Coach Taylor, the Olympic hockey team's head coach,was also a star player at Harvard for three years. As a senior, captain Taylor led Harvard to a21-2-3 record, capturing All-Ivy honors along theway. In 1969, six years after graduating, Taylorreturned to Harvard as assistant coach for thehockey team, and eventually became coach of thefirst-year team. Taylor took a temporary leave from his currentrole as head coach at Yale in order to coach TeamU.S.A. One of Taylor's assistants is a fellow Harvardalum goaltender coach Bertagna. Bertagna has some experience in the role,having served as part-time goalie coach for theBoston Bruins. Bertagna was netminder forHarvard's varsity squad from 1971-73. After graduating from Harvard, Bertagna went onto serve four years as the Harvard sportinformation director, and was eventually namedECAC director of hockey. Herberic the Bobsledder Herberich has the distinction of being the onlyHarvard Winter Olympian not to come from thehockey team. He will compete for Team USA as thedriver of the second two-man bobsled team. Read more in News
