Edwyn Owen
Edwyn Robert Owen ( born June 8, 1936 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, † October 5, 2007 in Topeka, Kansas ) was an American professional ice hockey player. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 he won the gold medal as a member of the U.S. national team.
Career
Edwyn Owen began his career as a hockey player at Harvard University, which he attended from 1955 to 1958 while he was playing in parallel for their hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He then spent two years at Team USA in the Olympic preparation. Later he attended the Stanford Business School and graduated in 1964 with a Master of Business Administration degree. In the late 1960s he spent a result of severe schizophrenia diagnosis three years in a closed clinic. Although he recovered later some of his disease, and from 1973 worked as an economics professor at Washburn University, but he continued to endure occasionally schizophrenia attacks.
In 2007, Owen died under mysterious circumstances and he was found in his burned-out car in a field near his residence.
Internationally
For the United States took Owen at the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 in Squaw Valley in part, in which he won the gold medal with his team.