Jennifer Botterill

Women's ice hockey
Competitor for Canada
Olympic games
	2002 Salt Lake City	Tournament
	2006 Torino	Tournament
	2010 Vancouver	Tournament
	1998 Nagano	Tournament
IIHF World Women's Championships
	1999 Finland	Tournament
	2000 Canada	Tournament
	2001 United States	Tournament
	2004 Canada	Tournament
	2007 Canada	Tournament
	2005 Sweden	Tournament
	2008 China	Tournament
	2009 Finland	Tournament

Jennifer Botterill, OM (born May 1, 1979 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. She assisted on the game-winning goal in her final international game, Canada's 2-0 win over the United States for the gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Although born in Ottawa, Ontario, she claims a hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Playing career

Collegiate

Botterill attended Harvard University and played for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program from 1998 to 2003. Harvard and several media outlets recognize Botterill as U.S. college ice hockey's career scoring leader (149 goals, 170 assists, 319 points).^[1]^[2]^[3] The NCAA does not recognize her record because women's hockey was not an NCAA-sanctioned sport in Botterill's first two college seasons.^[4] She scored at least one point in 112 of her 113 career college games (including a streak of 80 consecutive games). She was the first player to win the Patty Kazmaier Award twice as the top player in U.S. women's college hockey. Botterill set an NCAA record (since tied) for most points in one game with 10. This was accomplished on January 28, 2003 versus Boston College.^[5]

Canadian Women's Hockey League

Botterill played for the Mississauga Chiefs and Toronto Furies of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. In 2007–08, she won the Angela James Bowl after winning the league scoring title with 61 points.^[6] She was voted the CWHL Top Forward and a CWHL Central All-Star; she won CWHL Top Scorer of the Month honours in February. In 2008-09, she was a CWHL First Team All-Star.

Botterill retired after the 2010-11 season. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5–0 loss to the Montreal Stars. Despite playing just three seasons in the four-year-old CWHL, she retired as the league's second-best scorer with 160 points (in 79 games from 2007-08 to 2010-11). After winning the Angela James Bowl in 2007-08, she finished third in the league scoring race in both 2008-09 and 2010-11.

International

She won the silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998 as the youngest player on the Canadian team.^[7] Later, she won the gold medal in the 2002 games in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, playing forward. Botterill announced her retirement, on March 14, 2011.^[8] Her last appearance with Team Canada was on February 25, 2010 at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. Her final point was also on February 25 when, she assisted Marie-Philip Poulin on the gold medal-winning goal.^[9]

World Championship biography

1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 World Champion

2005, 2008, 2009 Silver Medallist

Awards and honors

Angela James Bowl, 2007–08
CWHL Top Forward, 2007–08
CWHL First All-Star Team, 2008–09
CWHL Central All-Stars, 2007–08

Accomplishments and notes

2008 Inductee, Women's Beanpot Hall of Fame^[10]

2007–08 ESSO Canada Most Sportsmanlike Player of the Year

2006 Order of Manitoba^[11]

2006 Winter Olympic All Tournament Team – Awarded by the International Ice Hockey Federation

2001^[12] & 2004^[13] MVP of the World Championships – Awarded by the International Ice Hockey Federation

2004 Named to the Media All Star Team at the World Championships

2001 Directorate Award, Best Forward, the World Championships

2001–02 & 2002–03 Winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award for the top female college ice hockey player in the United States. Only 2-time winner of the Award

2000–01 & 2002–03 Team Captain of Harvard University

2001 Female Athlete of the Year Award – Awarded by the Province of Manitoba (Botterill's mother, Doreen McCannell won the same award 36 years before)

1999 Captain of Canada's National Women's Under 22 Team which defeated the United States in a three-game series

1999 American Women's College Hockey Alliance Women's Ice Hockey Champion

1999 Most Outstanding Player of the American Women's College Hockey Alliance Championship

1999 American Women's College Hockey Alliance All-Americans, First Team^[14]\

1996 Attended Canada's National Junior Basketball selection camp

All Time Leading Scorer at Harvard University

In high school she attended the National Sport School (Canada)^[15]

Bilingual – French and English

Media

Botterill is an online host for Gretzky.com.

Charitable endeavors

Botterill is an Athlete Ambassador for Right To Play (formerly Olympic Aid).

Personal life

Botterill was born to Doreen McCannell and Cal Botterill. Her mother, Doreen, competed in the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics for Canada in speed skating. Her father, Cal, is a noted sports psychologist and has advised NHL teams and works with current and former Canadian Olympic athletes. Botterill's brother, Jason Botterill, competed for Canada in the World Junior Championships (3 Gold Medals) and played in the National Hockey League. He is currently the Assistant GM for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Their grandfather, Donald Grant McCannell was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.^[16]

She was a CAA School Safety Patroller in grade 5 and 6 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.^[17]

Botterill graduated from Harvard University in 2003 with a B.A. Psychology (with Honors). On May 5, 2012, she married hockey coach Adrian Lomonaco.^[18]

Career statistics – Team Canada

			Regular season
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts
1997	Three Nations Cup	Nat-Tm	5	1	0	1
1997–98	Pre-Olympic Tour	Nat-Tm	20	3	4	7
1998	Winter Olympics – Nagano	Nat-Tm	6	0	0	0
1999	Canadian Under-22 Xmas Cup	Nat-Tm	6	2	3	5
1999	Finland	Nat-Tm	4	0	2	2
1999	Pre-Women's World Championships	Nat-Tm	3	1	1	2
1999	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	1	3	4
1999	Three Nations Cup	Nat-Tm	5	3	4	7
2000	Pre-Women's World Championships	Nat-Tm	2	1	3	4
2000	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	1	5	6
2000	Four Nations Cup	Nat-Tm	4	3	6	9
2001	Sweden / United States	Nat-Tm	2	0	1	1
2001	Pre-Women's World Championships	Nat-Tm	2	0	1	1
2001	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	8	2	10
2001	Three Nations Cup	Nat-Tm	4	2	1	3
2001	Pre-Olympic Tour	Nat-Tm	15	6	13	19
2002	Winter Olympics – Salt Lake City	Nat-Tm	5	3	3	6
2003	Four Nations Team	Nat-Tm	4	1	3	4
2004	Pre-Women's World Championships	Nat-Tm	1	0	3	3
2004	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	3	8	11
2005	Pre-Women's World Championships	Nat-Tm	1	0	0	0
2005	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	1	6	7
2005	Four Nations Team	Nat-Tm	4	1	1	2
2005	Torino TEST EVENT	Nat-Tm	3	3	1	4
2005	Pre-Olympic Tour	Nat-Tm	12	0	1	1
2006	Winter Olympics – Torino	Nat-Tm	5	1	6	7
2006	Four Nations Team	Nat-Tm	4	1	6	7
2007	Pre-Women's World Championships	Nat-Tm	1	1	3	4
2007	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	3	2	5
2007	Festival	Nat-Tm	2	0	2	2
2007	Four Nations Team	Nat-Tm	4	5	2	7
2008	Pre-Women's World Championships	Nat-Tm	1	1	0	1
2008	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	4	4	8
2008	Four Nations Team	Nat-Tm	4	0	2	2
2009	Canadian World Championship Team	Nat-Tm	5	5	3	8

Team Canada U22 totals			6	2	3	5
Team Canada National Team totals			162	62	102	164

Career statistics – women's club hockey

			Regular season
2003–04	Toronto Aeros	NWHL	36	30	31	61
2004–05	Toronto Aeros	NWHL	29	22	33	55
2006–07	Mississauga Chiefs	NWHL	21	15	19	34
2007–08	Mississauga Chiefs	CWHL	26	24	37	61
2008–09	Mississauga Chiefs	CWHL	28	25	30	55
2010-11	Toronto Furies	CWHL	25	14	30	44^[19]

Club totals			165	130	180	310

Collegiate statistics

			Regular season
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts
1998–99	Harvard University	AWCHA	28	37	51	88
1999–2000	Harvard University	AWCHA	23	31	31	62
2000–01	Harvard University	NCAA	30	42	36	78
2002–03	Harvard University	NCAA	32	47	65	112

Harvard University/ECAC totals			113	157	183	340

References

↑ Borzi, Pat (March 24, 2003). "HOCKEY; Minnesota-Duluth Makes It Three Straight". The New York Times.
↑ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/6/5/female-athlete-of-the-year-botterill/
↑ http://www.uscho.com/2003/03/23/botterill-claims-second-kazmaier-award/
↑ http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Stats/W+Icehockey/RBIndex.html
↑ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_icehockey_rb/2011/DI.pdf
↑ http://www.29sports.com/29/london/player.html
↑ "Botterill wears genes well". CBC News. March 27, 2001.
↑ "Canada's Botterill retires from women's hockey". Canada: CBC. March 14, 2011.
↑ http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/163242/la_id/1/
↑ http://www.beanpothockey.com/women/hall.html
↑ http://www.lg.gov.mb.ca/awards/order/bios.html
↑ Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009–10, p.543, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6
↑ Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009–10, p.544, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6
↑ http://www.ahcahockey.com/news/women4799.html
↑ http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b830/
↑ "DONALD GRANT MCCANNELL". Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
↑ "Touch Olympic Gold with Jennifer Botterill and CAA". CAA South Central Ontario. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
↑ http://michaelcoombs.ca/2013/01/18/jennifer-adrian-married-saturday-may-5-2012-touchstone-resort/
↑ http://cwhl_site.stats.pointstreak.com/scoringleaders.html?leagueid=1113&seasonid=6347

External links

Jennifer Botterill biography at Canoe.com
"Toronto Aeros Win Hockey Nationals", Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity, March 13, 2005.
"Canada's golden girls", CBC Sports, February 20, 2006.
Jennifer Botterill on Real Champions

Preceded by Incumbent	*Angela James Bowl* 2008	Succeeded by Jayna Hefford (2009)
Preceded by Katja Riipi (2000)	*IIHF World Women's Championships Best Forward* 2001	Succeeded by Jayna Hefford (2004)
Preceded by First awarded in 2001	*IIHF World Women's Championships Most Valuable Player* 2001, 2004	Succeeded by Krissy Wendell (2005)
Preceded by Ali Brewer (2000)	*Patty Kazmaier Award* 2001	Succeeded by Brooke Whitney (2002)
Preceded by Brooke Whitney (2002)	*Patty Kazmaier Award* 2003	Succeeded by Angela Ruggiero (2004)

Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey

Venues	Bright Hockey Center (1977–present)

Coaches	Joe Bertagna (1977–79) Rita Harder (1979–81) John Dooley (1981–94) Katey Stone (1994– )

Patty Kazmaier Award winners	Allison Mleczko (1999) Jennifer Botterill (2001, 2003) Angela Ruggiero (2004) Julie Chu (2007) Sarah Vaillancourt (2008)

Olympians	Jennifer Botterill Caitlin Cahow Julie Chu Lyndsey Fry Jamie Hagerman Allison Mleczko Michelle Picard Josephine Pucci Angela Ruggiero Tammy Lee Shewchuk Sarah Vaillancourt

AWCHA Championships	1999

Conference Championships	ECAC: 1999 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2015

Seasons	1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

Patty Kazmaier Award

1998: Fisher 1999: Mleczko 2000: Brewer 2001: Botterill 2002: Whitney 2003: Botterill 2004: Ruggiero 2005: Wendell 2006: Bauer 2007: Chu 2008: Vaillancourt 2009: Vetter 2010: Bendus 2011: Duggan 2012: Decker 2013: Kessel 2014: Rattray 2015: Carpenter

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