Kim Insalaco
Kim Insalaco | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Rochester, NY, USA | November 4, 1980|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 130 lb (59 kg; 9 st 4 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECAC NWHL team |
Brown Bears Oakville Ice | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1999–2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kimberly Marie Insalaco (born November 4, 1980) is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She graduated from Brown University in 2003. Kim married Chris Legg, also a former Brown Men's Icer on June 13, 2009 in Ithaca, NY.
Before Brown
Insalaco was educated at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, where in 1999 she was and played for the Connecticut Polar Bears. She was the 1999 New England Prep School Player of the Year, Boston Globe All-Scholastic Selection, Hockey Night in Boston Most Valuable Forward, and Hockey Night in Boston All-Scholastic Tournament MVP. She was an All-State Soccer Award winner and an All-New England Soccer Team MVP in 1999. Kim won a 3 New England Champion with the Choate Varsity Track and Field, Soccer and Ice Hockey teams. Kim set and still holds the single-season goal scoring record at Choate, with 51 goals, during the 1997-98 ice hockey season.[1]
At Brown
Kim played for the Brown University Bears from 1999–2003, and was an extremely important factor in Brown's success those years. In her freshman season, she had an immediate impact, tallying 10 goals and 17 assists, for 27 points.
In her sophomore year, Kim tallied 12 goals and 16 assists for a 28 point total. She was named to the All-Ivy Second Team, and also walked on to the Brown Women's Soccer Team.
In her junior year, Kim tallied 14 goals and 26 assists for a 40 point total, ranking third in scoring for the Bears that season. She was also a co-captain. She helped lead the Bears to an ECAC Championship title, scoring the game winner in the championship game.
In her senior year, Kim tallied 9 goals and 23 assists for a 32 point total. She also earned ECAC All-Academic Honors.[1] After her career at Brown, she competed for the Oakville Ice of the National Women's Hockey League.[2]
Team USA
Kim attended U.S Junior National camps from 1996–1998, and attended the USA Hockey National Women's Festival for the first time in 1998. She was a member of the USA Under-22 National Team from 1999-2002. Kim played for the USA National Team at the Women's World Championship in 2003-2004, and 2004–2005, winning Gold in 2004-2005. In 2005, she again skated for Team USA at the Four Nations Cup in Finland. In 2006, Kim was named to the USA Olympic Team, which won Bronze at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.[3]
References
- ^ a b Brown University Athletics Women's Ice Hockey Player Bio Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ^ http://www.oakvilleice.net/Oakville_ICE_Development.pdf
- ^ US Team Media Guide. "Ice Hockey - Kim Insalaco", Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- 1980 births
- Living people
- American women's ice hockey players
- Brown Bears women's ice hockey players
- Brown University alumni
- Choate Rosemary Hall alumni
- Ice hockey people from New York
- Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in ice hockey
- Olympic ice hockey players of the United States
- Sportspeople from Rochester, New York