Sarah Vaillancourt

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Sarah Vaillancourt
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Born (1985-05-08) May 8, 1985 (age 38)
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Weight 139 lb (63 kg; 9 st 13 lb)
Position Forward
Shot Right
ECAC
CWHL team		 Harvard Crimson (2004-2009)
Montreal Stars (2010-2013)
National teamFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Playing career 2003–2013
Medal record
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Women's ice hockey
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Turin Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Vancouver Tournament
IIHF World Women's Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Canada Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Sweden Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 China Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Finland Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Switzerland Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Canada Tournament
Women's 4 Nations Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Canada Tournament
MLP Nations Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Germany Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Germany Tournament

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

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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 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]

Playing career

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.

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]

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 a 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.

Montreal Stars

At 2010–11 season, Vaillancourt joined the Montreal Stars midway 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. Surgery in the left hip held her outside the action this 2011–12 season. [5]

Career stats

Hockey Canada

EventGames playedGoalsAssistsPointsPIM
2005 Women's World Championships53582
2006 Olympics52462
2007 Women's World Championships52464
2008 Women's World Championships54268
2009 Women's World Championships53478
2010 Olympics53586

[6]

Awards and honours

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