Gina Kingsbury

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Gina Kingsbury
Date of birth November 26, 1981
place of birth Uranium City , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 62 kg
position center
number # 22
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1999-2000 Hotchkiss School
2000-2004 St. Lawrence University
2004-2005 Axion de Montréal
2006-2009 Calgary Oval X-Treme

Gina Kingsbury (born November 26, 1981 in Uranium City , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian national ice hockey player and current coach and official. She has been General Manager of the Canadian Women's National Team since 2018 .

Career

Gina Kingsbury began ice hockey at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville , Connecticut , where she also played softball and field hockey . During her school days she took part in the Canada Winter Games in 1995 . Further participations followed four years later (still as a student) and in 2005 as a player at Axion de Montréal .

St. Lawrence

Between 2000 and 2004 she played for the Skating Saints , the ice hockey team at St. Lawrence University , in ECAC Hockey . She also studied psychology at the university . With the Skating Saints she reached the final tournament of the NCAA, the so-called Frozen Four, twice in four years . In her final college season, she scored 26 goals and 31 assists in 33 games, placing her in seventh place on the NCAA scorer list. She was elected to the All-America First Team for the performance shown.

She finished her college career at St. Lawrence University with a total of 160 scorer points, including 79 goals, making her one of the top five scorers at St. Lawrence University today.

After completing her studies, Kingsbury first played for the Axion de Montréal in the National Women's Hockey League . In the 2005/06 season, she prepared with Team Canada for the Winter Olympics in Turin before she was active between 2006 and 2009 for the Calgary Oval X-Treme in the Western Women's Hockey League . With the Oval X-Treme she won the WWHL Champions Cup in 2007 and 2008 .

International

For more than ten years Kingsbury was part of the squad of the Canadian national team and participated with this in a variety of tournaments. In 1999 she ran for the first time for the U22 national team; her first world championship followed in 2001. In this tournament she scored two goals and two assists and won the gold medal at the end of the tournament.

In 2006 she took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time and ran there together with Meghan Agosta and Katie Weatherston in a series of attacks. Kingsbury gave three assists in the course of the tournament and ultimately won the Olympic gold medal with Team Canada. In addition, between 2004 and 2009 she took part in a total of five other world championships, where she won two more gold and three silver medals.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics , Kingsbury won their second gold medal. Then she ended her career.

As a trainer

Even as a player, Kingsbury was involved as the IIHF's ice hockey ambassador and was responsible for France.

After her career ended, Kingsbury was a coach at the "Okanagan Hockey School" in British Columbia . She later worked as an assistant coach to Shannon Miller at the University of Minnesota-Duluth .

In the 2013/14 season, Kingsbury supported the French ice hockey federation as assistant coach of the U18 junior national team. In 2015 she became an assistant coach of the Calgary Inferno of the Canadian Women's Hockey League . At the same time, she took on the newly created post of director of the women's national ice hockey teams at Hockey Canada in July 2015 . She also looked after the Canadian U18 national team at the 2016 World Cup as an assistant coach. Since July 2018, Kingsbury has succeeded Melody Davidson as General Manager of the Canadian national team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

( 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 )

College and WWHL

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1999/00 Hotchkiss School USHS
2000/01 St. Lawrence University NCAA 28 14th 15th 29 22nd
2001/02 St. Lawrence University NCAA 21st 19th 12 31 12
2002/03 St. Lawrence University NCAA 28 15th 20th 35 22nd
2003/04 St. Lawrence University NCAA 37 31 34 65 8th
2004/05 Axion de Montréal NWHL 30th 31 29 50 16 3 2 1 3 0
2006/07 Calgary Oval X-Treme WWHL 19th 11 20th 31 8th - - - - -
2007/08 Calgary Oval X-Treme WWHL 23 20th 25th 45 8th 3 1 2 3 4th
2008/09 Calgary Oval X-Treme WWHL 21st 24 30th 54 10 2 1 1 2 0
NCAA overall 114 79 81 160 64
WWHL total 63 55 75 130 26th 5 2 3 5 4th

International

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2001 Canada WM Gold medal blank.svg gold medal 4th 2 2 4th 0 +2
2004 Canada WM Gold medal blank.svg gold medal 5 1 1 2 4th +4
2005 Canada WM Silver medal blank.svg Silver medal 5 2 0 2 4th +3
2006 Canada Olympia Gold medal olympic.svg gold medal 5 0 3 3 2 +3
2007 Canada WM Gold medal blank.svg gold medal 5 2 0 2 0 +3
2008 Canada WM Silver medal blank.svg Silver medal 5 1 3 4th 0 +3
2009 Canada WM Silver medal blank.svg Silver medal 5 1 2 3 2 +4
2010 Canada Olympia Gold medal olympic.svg gold medal 5 2 1 3 6th +5

Web links

Commons : Gina Kingsbury  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elite Prospects - All Time Regular Season Player Stats for St. Lawrence Univ. In: eliteprospects.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Gina Kingsbury. In: olympic.ca. April 3, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Chris Jurewicz: Kingsbury comes back. In: hockeycanada.ca. January 19, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  4. ^ Athlete Ambassador - France: Gina Kingsbury. In: webarchive.iihf.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Gina jumps at the opportunity. In: webarchive.iihf.com. September 17, 2015, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  6. ^ Kingsbury '04 Selected to Manage Canadian Women's Hockey Team. In: saintsathletics.com. July 26, 2018, accessed June 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kingsbury, Gina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Uranium City , Saskatchewan