Caitlin Cahow

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Caitlin Cahow
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Born (1985-05-20) May 20, 1985 (age 39)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Height 5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Weight 156 lb (71 kg; 11 st 2 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Left
Played for
National teamFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Playing career 2006–2013
Medal record
Women's ice hockey
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Vancouver Tournament
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2006 Turin Tournament
IIHF World Women's Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 China Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Finland Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Switzerland Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2007 Canada Tournament
4 Nations Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Sweden Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Canada Tournament

Caitlin Kinder Cahow (born May 20, 1985) is a former American ice hockey player. She attended the Foote School, where she graduated in 2000, and then attended the Hotchkiss School where she graduated in 2003, after playing soccer, field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse.

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Cahow was a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team and also for Boston Blades in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. She graduated from Harvard University in 2008, with a bachelor's degree in social/biological anthropology and from Boston College Law School in 2013. [1]

Playing career

While Cahow's mother was a professor of Endocrine Surgery at Yale University, her first exposure to the ice rink was through figure skating. After one figure skating practice, she saw hockey players take to the ice and noticed that the players had ponytails. From there, Cahow gave up figure skating and attended a kids' hockey clinic. Most of the students at the clinic were boys. Cahow's mother forced her to play her first year in hockey wearing figure skates.

NCAA

Cahow played four years at Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey in the ECAC Hockey. Led all ECACH defensemen with 37 points (15–22) in 34 games. As a Junior (2006–07): Led team defensemen with 28 points (8–20) in 30 games.

WWHL

She tied for first among the league's defensemen with 21 points (3–18) in 19 games. She helped the Minnesota Whitecaps to the Western Women's Hockey League championship in 2008–09 season and was named top defenseman at the Championship.

CWHL

During the 2012–13 CWHL season, Cahow was the captain of the Boston Blades. By season's end, she became the second American-born captain to help a team win the Clarkson Cup.

USA Hockey

She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She plays defense and is left-handed. Before the Olympics, Cahow captained the United States Under-22 Select Team in 2006 after the USA Hockey National Women's Festival in Lake Placid, New York.

JAL Hockey

Caitlin last played for the JD Whale, [2] an adult recreational league based at Johnny's Ice House in Chicago, in Winter 2014–2015. JAL stands for Johnny's Adult League. [3]

Awards and honors

USA Hockey
College

Personal life

Cahow was born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Branford, Connecticut. She was named after figure skater Caitlin Carruthers, who won a silver medal for pairs skating with her brother, Peter Carruthers, at the 1984 Olympics. Cahow's mother, Barbara Kinder was a professor of surgery at Yale University. [9] One of Cahow's heroes was Manon Rhéaume. The two got the opportunity to play together for the Minnesota Whitecaps. [10]

Cahow's father, Elton, was a surgeon and he died of cancer when she was only 11 years old. Cahow graduated from Harvard University in 2008 with a degree in anthropology. Cahow also studied the French language at Harvard and used it for an interview with French-Canadian media. As a student at Harvard, Cahow met Boston Lobsters tennis player Nicole Pratt. Cahow and Pratt developed a hockey-tennis dry-land workout which helped Pratt make a comeback at the French Open tennis tournament. [11]

Cahow has two brothers, Garrett and Christian. [12]

Cahow, who is openly lesbian, [13] was chosen by US President Barack Obama as part of his delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Cahow lived in Vinalhaven, Maine, [14] but now lives in Atlanta and is an attorney at Jones Day [15]

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