Cassie Campbell

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Cassie Campbell
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Silver 1998 Nagano Team
Gold 2002 Salt Lake City Team
Gold 2006 Turin Team

Cassie Campbell (born November 22, 1973 in Richmond Hill, Ontario) was the captain of the Canadian ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics and led the team to a gold medal. The left winger took on the role of captain again in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and again successfully led her team to the Gold Medal with a 4 - 1 win over Team Sweden.

Cassie was also captain of the Calgary Oval X-Treme, a team in the Western Women's Hockey League.

She has done modelling, and hosted women's hockey segments on TSN's hockey broadcasts. She is an alumna of the University of Guelph, in Guelph Ontario Canada. Her charity work among communities in the greater Toronto area have been well recieved, and she is known as a great role model and humanitarian.

Cassie Campbell retired from competitive hockey on August 30, 2006.[1] She then joined Hockey Night in Canada as a rinkside reporter.[2] On October 14, 2006 Campbell became the first woman to do colour commentary on a Hockey Night in Canada broadcast. She filled in when Harry Neale was snowed in at his home in Buffalo.[3]

Campbell has played for these teams:

  • North York Aeros
  • Mississauga Chiefs

[edit] See also

born in Brampton, Ontario

[edit] References

  1. ^ Globe and Mail
  2. ^ Globe and Mail
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Cassie Campbell at the Olympic Oval in Calgary during the Cassie Campbell Street Hockey event, 13 May 2006. Photo courtesy of Calgary Highlanders Website.
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Cassie Campbell at the Olympic Oval in Calgary during the Cassie Campbell Street Hockey event, 13 May 2006. Photo courtesy of Calgary Highlanders Website.

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