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In July 1992, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to approve women's hockey as an Olympic event to first be held at the 1998 Winter Olympics. [1] [4] Until 1998, international women's hockey had been dominated by Canada's national team. Canadian teams had won every World Championship; by 1997, however, the American team had improved ...
She is the first female hockey player to win the Northern Star Award as Canada's top athlete of the year, and the second to receive the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press' female athlete of the year. [8] [9] [10] She is widely considered to be one of the greatest women's hockey players of all time. [11] [3] [12]
Jennifer Botterill was a member of four women's teams. Cassie Campbell is the one of two Canadian players to be captain of multiple teams (2002 and 2006). [33] Marie-Philip Poulin scored the gold medal-winning goal in three separate Olympics (2010, 2014, 2022) [34] Hayley Wickenheiser is the all-time leading scorer in the women's event and was named tournament MVP twice.
She is tied with teammates Caroline Ouellette and Jayna Hefford for the record for the most gold medals of any Canadian Olympian, and is widely considered to be the greatest female ice hockey player of all time. [5] [6] On February 20, 2014, Wickenheiser was elected to the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission. [7]
The player category has been in existence since the beginning of the Hall of Fame and the first nine players were inducted in 1945. For a person to be inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player, they must have been retired for a minimum of three years and must be nominated by an elected 18-person selection committee. [3]
Helen Richardson-Walsh (née Richardson, born 23 September 1981) is an English hockey player who plays as a midfielder. [1] She has been a member of both the England and the Great Britain women's field hockey teams since 1999, and was a member of the Great Britain team who won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Andrews and more celebrities found love with professional hockey players. The Full House alum was introduced to now-husband Valeri Bure at a charity hockey game by ...
She is the only player in history to receive the FIH Player of the Year Award eight times, [2] and is considered the best female hockey player of all time. [3] [4] [5] In 2010 she was granted the Platinum Konex Award as the best hockey player of the last decade in Argentina. [6]