Hayley Wickenheiser
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| Olympic medalist | |||
 Hayley Wickenheiser |
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| Medal record | |||
| Women's ice hockey | |||
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| Gold | 2006 Torino | Team | |
| Gold | 2002 Salt Lake City | Team | |
| Silver | 1998 Nagano | Team | |
Hayley Wickenheiser (born August 12, 1978[1], in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a player for the female Canadian ice hockey team. She is a cousin of the late National Hockey League player, Doug Wickenheiser.
Wickenheiser has been a member of the Canadian National team since 1995, winning the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, and another gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games (in which, it was revealed after the gold medal game, she played with a broken wrist). She has also led the team to win four gold medals at the IIHF World Women Championships.
In January 2003, she joined the Kirkkonummi Salamat, a men's team in the Suomi-sarja league in Finland, making history by becoming the first female to ever score a point in a professional hockey league. She played 23 games for Salamat in the 2003-04 season, scoring two goals and ten assists and had the best face-off percentage in the league that season. While Wickenheiser helped Salamat advance to the more prestigious Mestis league in the subsequent season, her coach felt that she was not physical enough to play at the higher level and she received little ice time. Having failed to record a point early in the season, she played her last game on November 12, 2003 and left the team to return home. She was named for the Women's Olympics team of 2006.
A versatile athlete, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, she also played for Canada's women's softball team.
Wickenheiser is an alumna of Bishop Carroll High School. She appeared on the children's television show This is Emily Yeung where she and her 6-year son Noah showed Emily how to play hockey.[2][3]
At the 2006 4 Nations Cup, she became Captain of the Canadian team for the first time.[4] She will also be captain at the 2007 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ 2006 Olympics Women's hockey team roster. TSN. Retrieved on April 5, 2007.
- ^ "Hockey is a Girl's Game", Alberta Report, ISSN: 0225-0519, February 21, 1994, Vol. 21, Issue 10, p29
- ^ "Amateur Scene". Lori Ewing, Calgary Herald. Calgary, Alta.: Feb 24, 1995. pg. E.4.
- ^ "Wickenheiser gets 'C' at Four Nations" Canadian Press 2006-08-11 Accessed November 8, 2006
- ^ "Wickenheiser named captain of team Canada" Canadian Press 2007-03-31 Accessed April 1, 2007
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