| Micah Zandee-Hart | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Zandee-Hart with Team Canada in 2017 | |||
| Born | January 13, 1997 Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||
| Weight | 152 lb (69 kg; 10 st 12 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| PWHL team | PWHL New York | ||
| National team |  Canada | ||
| Playing career | 2022–present | ||
Micah Arielle Zandee-Hart (born January 13, 1997) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and captain of New York of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
During her freshman season in 2015–16 at Cornell University, Zandee-Hart ranked third in team scoring and first among defencemen with 18 points. Her first goal came on November 20, 2015, against Mercyhurst University, the first game of a five-game point streak. She recorded multiple points six separate times. [1]
In her sophomore year, the 2016–17 season, she was named captain of the Big Red, the second sophomore in program history to be named captain. She recorded five goals and 16 points over 32 games, leading the team with five power play goals, 11 power play points, and 56 blocked shots. She was a finalist for ECAC Defenseman of the Year. [1]
Zandee-Hart would not play for Cornell in the 2017–18 season, instead centralizing with the Canadian national team. [1]
As a junior in 2018–19, she recorded four goals and 21 points in 32 games, including a game-winning goal, her first at the NCAA level, in the March 9, 2019 ECAC semifinal against Princeton University. [1]
In her final year of college hockey, the 2019–20 season, Zandee-Hart recorded seven goals and 32 points in 31 games, including a career-high four points against Mercyhurst on January 4, 2020. Her 1.03 points per game ranked fourth nationally amond defenders. She once again led the team in blocked shots with 58, finishing her collegiate career with 225, the most in Cornell history. [1]
Zandee-Hart joined the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association and their boycott of professional women's hockey in the 2020–21 season, playing in Calgary. [2]
On September 8, 2023, New York of the newly-created Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) announced that they had signed Zandee-Hart, along with American forwards Abby Roque and Alex Carpenter, to three-year contracts as part of the league's pre-draft free agency period. [3] On December 21, 2023, she was named the first-ever captain of the team. [4] She was also chosen as the team's player representative for the PWHL Players Association (PWHLPA), the league's labour union. [5]
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's ice hockey | ||
| Representing Canada | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 2022 Beijing | Team |
| World Championships | ||
| 2022 Denmark | |
 | 2023 Canada | |
 | 2019 Finland | |
| World U18 Championships | ||
| 2014 Hungary | |
| 2015 United States | |
Along with fellow British Columbia resident Sarah Potomak, Zandee-Hart was invited to participate in the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) 2013 Women's High Performance Camp in Sheffield, England. [6] While participating with Team British Columbia at the 2015 Canada Winter Games, Zandee-Hart was named the province's flag bearer at the event. [7]
Hart played in two under-18 events with Team Canada winning gold in 2014 and, as team captain, silver in 2015. [2] [8]
With Canada's Under-22/Development Team, Zandee-Hart captured a gold medal at the 2016 Nations Cup. Before the event, the team participated in a series of exhibition games against the national teams of Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary. She registered an assist in the December 30, 2015, game against Austria. [9]
On November 23, 2016, she was named to the Canada women's national ice hockey team roster that competed against the United States in a pair of contests on December 13 (in Plymouth, Michigan) and December 20, 2016 (in Sarnia, Ontario). She is one of three members of the Canadian roster who made their debuts with the national team in the series against the United States. [10] [11]
On January 11, 2022, Zandee-Hart was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team, becoming the first British Columbia-born woman to represent the country in Olympic ice hockey. [12] [13] At the games, she recorded four assists en route to a gold medal. [2]
Zandee-Hart is part of the LGBTQ+ community. [14] She attended Penticton Secondary School. [1]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2012–13 | Okanagan Hockey Academy | JWHL | 29 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2013–14 | Okanagan Hockey Academy | JWHL | 29 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2014–15 | Okanagan Hockey Academy | JWHL | 24 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2015–16 | Cornell University | ECAC | 30 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2016–17 | Cornell University | ECAC | 31 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2017–18 | Canada | AMHL (Men's) | 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2018–19 | Cornell University | ECAC | 32 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2019–20 | Cornell University | ECAC | 31 | 7 | 25 | 32 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2022–23 | Team Sonnet | PWHPA | 20 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2023–24 | New York | PWHL | 19 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| PWHL totals | 19 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Canada | U18 |  | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2015 | Canada | U18 |  | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2019 | Canada | WC |  | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2022 | Canada | OG | | 7 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| 2022 | Canada | WC | | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2023 | Canada | WC | | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Junior totals | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Senior totals | 28 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 12 | ||||
| Award | Year | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| International | ||
| World U18 Championship – Media All-Star Team | 2015 | [15] |
| College | ||
| ECAC All-Rookie Team | 2016 | [16] |
| All-Ivy Honorable Mention | 2016 | [17] |
| ECAC All-Tournament Team | 2017, 2019, 2020 | [1] |
| Second Team All-Ivy | 2017, 2020 | |
| First Team All-ECAC | 2017 | |
| Third Team All-ECAC | 2019 | |
| Third Team All-USCHO | 2019, 2020 | |
| Second Team All-ECAC | 2020 | |
| First Team All-Ivy | 2020 | [18] |
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