María Cecilia Rognoni is a retired Argentine field hockey player, who won the 2002 World Cup in Perth, Australia where she was elected as the best woman hockey player in the world by the FIH.
Career
She is currently playing in the Dutch team The Human Context Bloemendaal in the second division of the Netherlands. Cecilia belongs to the generation that gave rise to the myth of the Las Leonas. In 2005 she was separated from the Argentine national field hockey team by the coach Gabriel Minadeo, after she said that "many of the players have a place on the team just because of their surname".
She came back to the team in 2010 under Carlos Retegui coaching but was forced to leave the team due knee injuries.
She also played for Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires and The Human Context Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Individual.
Achievements
1994: Champion of the South American Tournament (Chile)
1995: 4th place at the Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Cape Town)
1996: 7th place at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1997: 3rd place at the Junior World Championships (of Korea)
1998: 4th place at the World Championship (Ultrecht, Netherlands)
1999: Gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games (Winnipeg, Canada)
1999: 4th place in the Champions Trophy (Brisbane)
2000: Silver Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2001: Pan American Cup (Kingston, Jamaica)
2001: Champions Trophy (Amstelveen, Netherlands)
2001: Champion of the Three Nations Cup
2002: 2nd place at the Champions Trophy (Macau, China)
2002: World Cup (Perth, Australia)
2003: Champion of the Euro with the Rotterdam (Netherlands)
2003: 2003 Pan American Games (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
2004: 2nd place four nations tournament Córdoba (Argentina)
2004: Bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004: 3rd place at the Champions Trophy (Rosario, Argentina)
1995 - Clarín Award Revelation (Field Hockey)
1997 - Top scorer in the junior Pan American Championship in Chile
1998 - Clarín Award Consecration (Field Hockey)
2000 - Gold Olimpia Award (Field Hockey) (National Team)
2001 - Pan American Cup scorer of Kingston, Jamaica
2002 - Best player of the tournament (Champions Trophy in Macau, China)
2002 - FIH Player of the Year Award
2002 - Clarín Award Consecration (Field Hockey)
2002 - Olimpia Award (Field Hockey)
2002 - Gold Olimpia Award (Best Athlete of the Year).