Cecilia Rognoni

Cecilia Rognoni
Personal information
Full name María Cecilia Rognoni
Born (1976-12-01) December 1, 1976
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5+12 in)
Playing position Defender
Senior career
Years Team
–2005 Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
1994–1997 Argentina U21
1994–2004, 2010 Argentina 231
Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing  Argentina
Olympic Games
2000 SydneyTeam
2004 AthensTeam
World Cup
2002 PerthTeam
Champions Trophy
2001 AmstelveenTeam
2002 MacauTeam
2004 RosarioTeam
Pan American Games
1999 WinnipegTeam
2003 Santo DomingoTeam
Pan American Cup
2001 KingstonTeam
Junior World Cup
1997 SeongnamTeam
Last updated on: April 26th, 2013

María Cecilia Rognoni (born December 1, 1976, in Buenos Aires) 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.

Cecilia belongs to the generation that gave rise to the myth of the Las Leonas. She won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the Champions Trophy in 2001. 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 in the Netherlands for HC Rotterdam and HC Bloemendaal in the second division of the Netherlands. .