Meet Gigi Marvin: Team USA’s Hockey Player on a Mission for Christ [videos]

Gigi Marvin is a member of the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team, and will be playing this year as a forward in her third Olympic Games. She and her team won silver in 2010 in Vancouver, and in Sochi in 2014. This year, the team hopes to win gold in PyeongChang.

While her goal is to win, winning is not everything the 30-year-old athlete argues. Gigi told the Fellowship of Christian Athletes FCA Magazine that,

My mission is more than winning another medal or championship. It’s about sharing Christ and leading others to him. I know my worth is not found in what I can achieve in this game. Instead, my identity and value is only found in Christ, my Redeemer and Lord.

She told Athletes in Action, “We’re not on Team USA. We’re on Team Jesus Christ.”

She also notes that many of the players have bible verses written on their hockey sticks. She adds, “that every single person God uses to encourage her walk with him.”

Her profile picture on Facebook highlights Psalm 18:32: “It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect,” and on Twitter, Matthew 6:33: “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.”

Gigi won gold in five world championship games and was a star player at the University of Minnesota. She’s proud of her heritage growing up in the “State of Hockey,” otherwise known as, Minnesota. Gigi notes that the state and the university have contributed a number of leaders to the sport of ice hockey:

“The State of Hockey produces not only the most college players in the nation, but also the most captains. The captains of all five in-state men’s and women’s hockey programs are Minnesotans.” 25 MN captains throughout the country @mnhockeyjournal

— Gigi Marvin (@GigiMarvin) January 12, 2018

"Most Winter Olympians? The University of Minnesota" #GoGophs https://t.co/a26p9MfCV9

— Gigi Marvin (@GigiMarvin) September 21, 2017

Gigi was nominated as the Frosty Queen along with her Frosty King, now U.S. Hockey Champion player T.J. Oshie, who famously scored four goals against Russia in a shootout match in Sochi in 2014 to win with a score of 3-2.

USA Olympians Gigi Marvin and @OSH74 as Frosty Fest king & Queen in #hockeytownusa . Go, TJ & Gigi! #OshieInSochi pic.twitter.com/FV2iAlU3C8

— Marvin Windows (@MarvinWindows) February 16, 2014

Women’s hockey debuted as a sport at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, with Team USA winning the first gold medal. Since then, Team Canada has rivaled Team USA in dominating the sport, and has topped the podium since 1992.

Watch Gigi Marvin and the U.S. women’s hockey team February 11. Follow her on Twitter at @GigiMarvin.