A second-team All-American in 2014, Gagliardi was a two-time captain for a Big Red women's hockey team that won three Ivy League titles, three ECAC championships and made four consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament over her tenure with the squad. Cornell's first finalist for the women's Hockey Humanitarian Award, she graduated as the school's career leader in games played (138) and fifth in plus-minus (+96) while ranking among the all-time scorers as a defenseman (19-70-89). Gagliardi was chosen to compete for a spot on the U.S. Olympic hockey team. She devoted time to the Feed My Starving Children program and the Salvation Army's adopt-a-family program and volunteered time for Habitat for Humanity, assisting in building two homes in the community. She was a big sister in Cornell's "Cub Club" and won the team's Mentor Award for her work with the program. Gagliard was a member of the Red Key Honor Society and the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) and earned the school's Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Leadership Award for most embodying leadership, athleticism and a strong work ethic at the Senior Banquet.
