Sarah Vaillancourt

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Sarah Vaillancourt
Born May 8, 1985 (1985-05-08) (age 26)
Sherbrooke, QC, CAN
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight 139 lb (63 kg; 9 st 13 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Right
ECAC
CWHL team		 Harvard Crimson (2004-2009)
Montreal Stars (2010-present)
National team  Canada
Playing career 2003–present
Medal record
Women's ice hockey
Competitor for  Canada
Olympic games
Gold 2006 Torino Tournament
Gold 2010 Vancouver Tournament
IIHF World Women's Championships
Gold 2007 Canada Tournament
Silver 2005 Sweden Tournament
Silver 2008 China Tournament
Silver 2009 Finland Tournament
Silver 2011 Switzerland Tournament
Women's 4 Nations Cup
Gold 2010 Canada Tournament
MLP Nations Cup
Gold 2005 Germany 2005 Tournament
Gold 2007 Germany 2007 Tournament

Sarah Marie Vaillancourt (born May 8, 1985 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and a member of Montreal Stars (CWHL).

2-time Olympic Gold Medallist / World Championships Gold / 4-time World Championships Silver / Clarkson Cup Champion (2010–11). From 2003 to 2009 Vaillancourt played 88 international games for Team Canada and scored 36 goals adding 39 assists. She won 2 Olympic Gold medals for Canada, in 2006 and 2010. While playing for Harvard University she was named the Ivy League and ECAC Hockey Player of the Year. She led Harvard in scoring, and was ranked fourth overall in the NCAA in 2007-08. In 2008, she won the coveted Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award.

Vaillancourt started skating at the age of two years and a half and playing hockey at five years. She made the National Team when she was 18 and one of her favourite hockey moments is winning gold on home soil at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. She studied psychology at Harvard University and works as a skills coach. Vaillancourt is openly lesbian.[1]

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[edit] Playing career

Sarah Vaillancourt was the captain of Canada’s Under 22 team at the 2007 Air Canada Cup. In 2003, she was the captain of Team Québec at the Canada Winter Games that won the Silver Medal.[2] One of her teammates was future Olympian Catherine Ward. She graduated from high school as a tri-varsity captain and athlete from Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut as a member of the class of 2004.

[edit] Harvard Crimson

She was a star for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program and won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2008. Her freshman year was in 2004-05, and she finished fifth in the nation, and first among freshmen, in scoring with 2.31 points per game.[3]

[edit] Hockey Canada

In 2005, she made the Canadian national women's hockey team, where she would go on to play at the 2005 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships in Sweden. In her first game ever, she led Canada with 6 points in an 13-0 win over the Kazakhstani national women's ice hockey team. This tied a record for most points in a game on the Canadian national team. She would finish the tournament with 8 points. On February 20, 2006, Vaillancourt, as the second youngest member of the team, won a team gold medal in Turin with the Canadian Women's Hockey team beating Sweden in the final game and outscoring their opponents 46 to 2.

[edit] Montreal Stars

At 2010-11 season, Vaillancourt joined the Montreal Stars mid-way through the season and instantly become a fan favourite, managing to crack the league's top-10 leading scorers, with an impressive 28 points (11 goals and 17 assists) in only 15 games. In the championship game of the 2011 Clarkson Cup, Vaillancourt scored a goal in the third period.[4] By winning the 2011 Clarkson Cup, Vaillancourt became an unofficial member of the Triple Gold Club (the accomplishment by women is not yet officially recognized by the IIHF), as she became one of only four women to win the Clarkson Cup, a gold medal in the Winter Olympics, and a gold medal at the IIHF World Women's Championships. The other women include Caroline Ouellette, Jenny Potter and Kim St. Pierre. A Surgery in the left hip will hold heroutside the action this 2011-12 season.[5]

[edit] Career stats

[edit] Hockey Canada

Event Games Played Goals Assists Points PIM
2005 Women's World Championships 5 3 5 8 2
2006 Olympics 5 2 4 6 2
2007 Women's World Championships 5 2 4 6 4
2008 Women's World Championships 5 4 2 6 8
2009 Women's World Championships 5 3 4 7 8
2010 Olympics 5 3 5 8 6

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[edit] Awards and honors

  • 2004-05 All USCHO.com Rookie Team[7]
  • Top 10 Finalist for 2007 Patty Kazmaier Award [8]
  • First Team All-Ivy League, 2007–08, Harvard (Junior), Unanimous selection
  • Ivy League Player of the Year 2007-08, Harvard (Junior), Unanimous selection[9]
  • 2009 First Team All-Ivy League[10]
  • Sarah Vaillancourt, 2009 First Team All-ECAC [11]
  • 2009 ECAC Player of the Year [12]
  • 2011 Clarkson Cup Tournament Most Valuable Player[13]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Meet Your 2010 Lesbian Olympians". AfterEllen.com. 12 February 2010. http://www.afterellen.com/blwe/02-12-10?page=0,1. Retrieved 4 January 2012. 
  2. ^ Canadian Gold 2010, Andrew Podnieks, p. 170, Fenn Publishing, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55168-384-3
  3. ^ "SI.com - Best Athlete You've Never Heard Of - Aug 31, 2007". CNN. 31 August 2007. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/sioncampus/08/29/unheralded.athletes/1.html. 
  4. ^ http://cwhl.stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=1560528
  5. ^ (French) Vaillancourt sous le bistouri
  6. ^ Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.22, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6
  7. ^ http://www.uscho.com/2005/03/22/uschocoms-200405-di-womens-yearend-honors/
  8. ^ http://www.wcha.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/030507aac.html
  9. ^ http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6431
  10. ^ "All-Time All-Ivy: Ice Hockey". Ivy League Sports. http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/alltime.asp?intSID=8. Retrieved 16 April 2010. [dead link]
  11. ^ "Nicole Stock and Paige Pyett Named All-ECAC Hockey". Brown Athletics. March 3, 2009. http://www.brownbears.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/030309aad.html. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
  12. ^ "Nicole Stock and Paige Pyett Named All-ECAC Hockey". Brown Athletics. March 3, 2009. http://www.brownbears.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/030309aad.html. Retrieved 27 April 2010. 
  13. ^ http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2011/03/28/17779016.html

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Preceded by
Julie Chu (2007)		 Patty Kazmaier Award
2008		 Succeeded by
Jessie Vetter (2009)
Men’s coaches
Alfred Winsor • William Clafin • Edward Bigelow • Joseph Stubbs • Clark Hodder • John Chase • Ralph Weiland • Bill Cleary • Ronn Tomassoni • Mark Mazzoleni • Ted Donato
Men’s seasons
Notable players
Frozen Four Appearances
Hobey Baker Award
Hobey Baker Award: Mark Fusco (1983) • Scott Fusco (1986) • Lane MacDonald (1989)
Women's coaches
Joe Bertagna • Rita Harder • John Dooley • Katey Stone
Women's seasons
Olympians
Patty Kazmaier Award
Patty Kazmaier Award: A.J. Mleczko (1999) • Jennifer Botterill (2001, 2003) • Angela Ruggiero (2004) • Julie Chu (2007) • Sarah Vaillancourt (2008)
Frozen Four Appearances
NCAA tournament: 2001 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005
1Arena :Bright Hockey Center
2Athletic Director: Robert Scalise
1990's
Brandy Fisher (1998) • A.J. Mleczko (1999)
2000's
Ali Brewer (2000) • Jennifer Botterill (2001, 2003) • Brooke Whitney (2002) • Angela Ruggiero (2004) • Krissy Wendell (2005) • Sara Bauer (2006) • Julie Chu (2007) • Sarah Vaillancourt (2008) • Jessie Vetter (2009)
2010's
Vicki Bendus (2010) • Meghan Duggan (2011)
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