Even though Brandy Fisher missed out on the ultimate goal of her hockey career, her other accomplishments have stamped her name on the sport for all-time.

Hailing from tiny Colton, Fisher came just short of the pinnacle in women's hockey, skating for the inaugural U.S. Olympic team in 1998 and again in 2002. But what a career she had.

In a single year, 1998, Fisher led the nation in scoring with 36 goals and 29 assists, was named ECAC Player of the Year and the first winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award — given to the top player in women's hockey — and helped her team, the University of New Hampshire, to the national title.

Fisher, a pure goal-scoring forward, played for two national champions while at Division I New Hampshire. She clinched the national title in the ECAC final in 1996 when her wrist shot off the post and into the net ended the longest women's hockey game in history. New Hampshire beat Providence College 2-1 and Fisher's shot off a rebound from teammate Dottie Catlin in the fifth overtime gave the Wildcats the championship after 145 minutes and 35 seconds of play. Fisher was named tournament MVP.

She completed her college career with 129 goals and 111 assists for 240 points, which still ranks among the top five totals all-time at New Hampshire. In 2005, Fisher was inducted into the university's Wildcat Athletics Council Hall of Fame.

Fisher began her athletic career at Colton-Pierrepont high school. She skated for a girls midget team that reached the national finals in Duluth, Minn., scoring a hat trick in one game. After excelling two seasons in soccer and softball, Fisher left Colton-Pierrepont after her sophomore year and enrolled in Governor Drummer Academy in Byfield, Mass. She was named the team's MVP her final season.

Fisher was cut from the national Olympic team in August 1997, but made the U.S. Select team and skated in the world championships in 1999 and 2000. She made the first cut for the 2002 Olympic team, but a knee injury suffered a year prior helped end her Olympic quest, and she was cut in December 2001, two months before the Olympic Games.

Fisher, 33, received a degree in exercise physiology and has worked in the medical and health care field since her graduation and now works for Johnson & Johnson and lives in Rochester.

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