Taylor Woods

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Taylor Woods
Personal information
Born (1994-09-26) September 26, 1994 (age 30)
Morden, Manitoba, Canada
Education Cornell University
Height160 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Ice hockey career
Position Forward
Shoots Right
PHF team
Former teams		 Toronto Six
Playing career 2012–present
Sport
Sport Strongwoman
Weight classUnder-64 kg
Medal record
Strongwoman
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Arnold Amateur Strongwoman
World Championship
1st2023 ColumbusU64KG
3rd2022 ColumbusU64KG

Taylor Cassidy Woods (born September 26, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and strongwoman who most recently played in the now defunct Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) with the Toronto Six. A defenceman who has also played as a two-way forward, she is both a Clarkson Cup champion and an Isobel Cup champion.

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Playing career

Woods began playing in the Saskatchewan Female U18 AAA Hockey League (SFU18AAAHL), the top minor ice hockey league in the province, as a high school freshman with the Notre Dame Hounds of Athol Murray College of Notre Dame. She was the team’s top point scorer in her first season, notching 23 points in 28 games, and was a top-three point scorer on the team in the following two seasons. With the Hounds, Woods won gold at the 2011 Esso Cup, Canada’s national women's midget hockey championship, in addition to setting a tournament record with 12 assists. [1] [2]

During her senior year, 2011–12, she played in the Junior Women's Hockey League (JWHL) with the Balmoral Hall Blazers of Balmoral Hall School and set a team record for assists in a season, with 41 assists in 30 games.

NCAA

Woods joined the Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey program in 2012, beginning as a third-line centre and playoff specialist during her rookie NCAA season. She scored in her first game with the university, finishing her rookie year with 22 points, good for third on the team in goals, including a hat-trick in the ECAC Hockey Tournament Semifinal. [3] For her third year with the university, she switched positions to play as a defenceman, before moving back to forward for her senior season. She finished her time at Cornell with 81 points in 131 games and remains the sixth leading all-time short handed scorer for the team. [4]

Professional

Woods was drafted 23rd overall by the Brampton Thunder in the 2016 CWHL Draft and signed with the team ahead of the 2016–17 season. [5] The team moved from Brampton to Markham, Ontario and were renamed the Markham Thunder in 2017. Woods stuck with the team through the move and won the Clarkson Cup, the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) championship trophy, with the Thunder in 2018.

The 2018–19 season was her third with the Thunder. Though she didn’t know it at the time, she scored the last regular season goal in league history as the CWHL collapsed in May 2019.

In May 2019, she joined the newly formed Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA), which emerged following the collapse of the CWHL. During the 2019–20 PWHPA Dream Gap Tour, she played for Team Johnston at the Unifor Women's Hockey Showcase in September 2019 and for Team Spooner at the Secret Women's Hockey Showcase in January 2020. [6]

She opted to part ways with the PWHPA in April 2020 and signed with the Toronto Six, the first Canadian expansion team of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; renamed Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) in 2021), as one of the original five players to join the team, and was named an alternate captain. [7] [8] Her first NWHL goal was scored on January 24, 2021 versus the Minnesota Whitecaps and she scored a total of 4 goals in the six game regular season, shorted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [9]

Woods resigned with the Six for the 2021–22 PHF season and had the most offensively productive season of her professional career, scoring 3 goals and 14 assists for 17 points in twenty games.

International

Medal record
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Women's ice hockey
World U18 Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Czech Republic

Woods competed as member of Team Canada at the 2012 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship. [10] She joined a roster filled with other future hockey stars, including Cayley Mercer, Laura Stacey, Erin Ambrose, Emerance Maschmeyer, and future Toronto Six teammate Elaine Chuli. [11] Woods scored Canada’s opening goal of the tournament, in their match against Switzerland, and was named best player of the game by the team. [12] She finished the tournament with three goals and three assists and her performance helped Team Canada sweep the tournament and win gold that year. [13]

Strongwoman career

Woods placed first in the under-64 kg (141 lb) weight category of the 2023 Arnold Amateur Strongwoman World Championship at the Arnold Sports Festival. [14]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

   Regular season   Playoffs
Season TeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIM GPGAPtsPIM
2008–09 Notre Dame Hounds SFMAAAHL281492391564
2009–10Notre Dame HoundsSFMAAAHL2819254489911208
2010–11Notre Dame HoundsSFMAAAHL2822325414911132412
2011–12 Balmoral Hall Blazers JWHL 302141622–––––
2012–13 Cornell Big Red NCAA 3311112232–––––
2013–14 Cornell Big RedNCAA349132227–––––
2014 -15 Cornell Big RedNCAA334162022–––––
2015–16 Cornell Big RedNCAA31981716–––––
2016–17 Brampton Thunder CWHL 200446–––––
2017–18 Markham Thunder CWHL284151830000
2018–19 Markham ThunderCWHL262351230000
2019–20 GTA West PWHPA ––––––––––
2020–21 Toronto Six NWHL 64151010000
2021–22 Toronto Six PHF 20314171210110
2022–23 Toronto SixPHF22033841010
NCAA totals13133488197–––––
CWHL totals7468143660000
PHF totals48718253061120

International

YearTeamEventResult GPGAPtsPIM
2012 Canada WJC Gold medal icon.svg53360

Awards and honors

AwardYear
Hockey Canada
Esso Cup Gold Medal 2011
International
World U18 Gold Medal 2012
Cornell Big Red
ECAC Rookie of the WeekNovember 20, 2012 [15]
ECAC All-Tournament Team2013
All-Ivy Second Team2016 [16]
CWHL
Clarkson Cup Champion 2018
PHF
Isobel Cup Champion 2023

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