{"id":26207,"date":"2004-01-19T23:08:30","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T05:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2004\/01\/19\/gopher-women-lose-olympian-wall-to-academics\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:55:36","slug":"gopher-women-lose-olympian-wall-to-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2004\/01\/19\/gopher-women-lose-olympian-wall-to-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gopher Women Lose Olympian Wall to Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news just keeps coming for the No. 1 Minnesota women&#8217;s hockey team. In a matter of days, the three U.S. Olympians in the Gophers&#8217; lineup have dwindled to one.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota revealed today that freshman defenseman Lyndsay Wall, the youngest member of the 2002 U.S. Olympic team, will be academically ineligible to compete for the rest of the 2003-04 season.<\/p>\n<p>Wall was among the nation&#8217;s most potent offensive defensemen. 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