Tara Lynn Mounsey (born March 12, 1978[1]) is an American ice hockey defenseman who played for the United States Women's Olympic Hockey Team, winning a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[1] Mounsey went on to play for Brown University where she was a two-sports athlete, ice-hockey and field hockey.

[3] During the 1997–1998 season, Tara Mounsey took a hiatus from college hockey to focus on the Winter Olympics.

At the Games, she collected two goals and four assists, which was tied for tops among defenders for Team USA.

She and her teammates won the first ever Olympic gold medal in Women ice hockey defeating Canada 3–1.