Gigi Marvin

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Gigi Marvin
Date of birth March 7, 1987
place of birth Warroad , Minnesota , USA
size 173 cm
Weight 73 kg
position defender
number # 19
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2001-2005 Warroad High School
2005-2009 University of Minnesota
2009-2011 Minnesota Whitecaps
2011-2015 Boston Blades
since 2015 Boston Pride

Gisèle Marie "Gigi" Marvin (* 7. March 1987 in Warroad , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who since the season 2015/16 at the Boston Pride in the National Women's Hockey League on the position of the defense plays. Marvin has been a member of the United States' national women's ice hockey team since 2006 and is a multiple world and Olympic champion. Marvin's grandfather Cal Marvin was also active as an ice hockey player and for many years as a coach and official, for which he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame .

Career

Marvin played at Warroad High School during her high school years between 2001 and 2005 , where her family was the third generation of the school's ice hockey program. Her grandfather Cal Marvin was associated with the school for decades and was subsequently inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame due to his services . After graduating from high school, Gigi Marvin moved to the University of Minnesota , where she studied for the next four years. In parallel, she played for the university team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

Marvin in the jersey of the US national team

In her first year of college , the then striker made the leap into the squad of the United States women's national ice hockey team and took part in the 2006 4 Nations Cup with them. A few months later, he won a silver medal at the 2007 World Cup . The following year, Marvin remained successful and won gold again at the 2008 World Cup . After successfully completing her studies in spring 2009 and winning another gold medal at the 2009 World Cup , the offensive player switched to the US Hockey Association USA Hockey for the 2009/10 season , where she prepared with the selection squad for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . There she added another silver medal to her collection of medals.

For the 2010/11 season , Marvin joined the Minnesota Whitecaps from the Western Women's Hockey League , with whom they won the league's championship trophy. In addition, she celebrated her third world title in the 2011 world championships. Following the World Cup, the attacker moved to the Canadian Women's Hockey League for the Boston Blades , for which she ran for the following two years. During this period, the American won the Clarkson Cup with the Blades in 2013, as well as a silver medal at the 2012 World Cup and a gold medal at the 2013 World Cup - equivalent to her fourth world title. In the summer of 2013, Marvin was again recruited by USA Hockey in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and spent the entire season there, during which she retrained as a defender. She concluded the competition by winning the Olympic silver medal again. Marvin then took a year-long hiatus, both nationally and internationally.

The defender did not return to play until the 2015/16 season and from then on played for the Boston Pride in the newly founded National Women's Hockey League . She played for the national team for the first time at the 4 Nations Cup 2015 . With the Boston Pride, Marvin won the Isobel Cup at the end of the season and was also named the best defensive player in the league. In the following game year she lost to the Buffalo Beauts with the Pride in the final . Nevertheless, she successfully concluded the season by winning her fifth world title. In the summer of 2017, Marvin began preparing with USA Hockey for her third Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where she eventually won Olympic gold.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2016 Isobel Cup win with Boston Pride
  • 2016 NWHL Defensive Player of the Year
  • 2017 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2005/06 University of Minnesota WCHA 41 16 30th 46 38 +24
2006/07 University of Minnesota WCHA 35 18th 20th 38 42 +6
2007/08 University of Minnesota WCHA 38 23 31 54 41 +18
2008/09 University of Minnesota WCHA 38 30th 27 57 22nd +26
2009/10 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2010/11 Minnesota Whitecaps WWHL 17th 27 14th 41 8th +69
2011/12 Boston Blades CWHL 27 11 21st 32 25th +20 3 2 3 5 0 ± 0
2012/13 Boston Blades CWHL 15th 2 3 5 6th +2 4th 1 1 2 8th −1
2013/14 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2014/15 Boston Blades CWHL not played
2015/16 Boston Pride NWHL 16 5 9 14th 12 4th 2 5 7th 2
2016/17 Boston Pride NWHL 16 4th 10 14th 8th +11 2 1 1 2 0 +4
2017/18 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
NCAA overall 152 87 108 195 143 +74
CWHL overall 42 13 24 37 30th +22 7th 3 4th 7th 8th −1
NWHL total 32 9 19th 28 20th 6th 3 6th 9 2

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2007 United States WM 2nd place, silver 5 2 1 3 8th +3
2008 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 2 3 12 ± 0
2009 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 2 1 3 4th +2
2010 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 0 3 3 2 +6
2011 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 0 3 3 0 +3
2012 United States WM 2nd place, silver 5 3 6th 9 2 +4
2013 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 0 4th 4th 0 +4
2014 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 0 1 1 2 +4
2017 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 1 2 2 +2
2018 United States Olympia 1st place, gold 5 2 1 3 0 +4
Women overall 50 11 23 34 32 +32

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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Commons : Gigi Marvin  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Marvin, Gigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marvin, Gisèle Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Warroad , Minnesota