Kacey Bellamy

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Kacey Bellamy
Date of birth April 22, 1987
place of birth Westfield , Massachusetts , USA
size 171 cm
Weight 66 kg
position defender
number # 22
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2005-2009 University of New Hampshire
2010-2015 Boston Blades
2015-2018 Boston Pride
since 2018 Calgary Inferno

Kacey Lee Bellamy (* 22. April 1987 in Westfield , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who since the season 2018/19 at the Calgary Inferno in the Canadian Women's Hockey League on the position of the defense plays. Bellamy has been a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team since 2006 and, with eight gold medals at world championships, she and her teammate Hilary Knight are the most successful US women in this competition.

Career

Bellamy in the jersey of the US national team

Bellamy first appeared in the ice hockey field when she entered college . In addition to her studies, which she began in the 2005/06 school year at the University of New Hampshire , she played for the university team in the Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, for the next four years . A year into her college education in the then 19-year-old was first by the US Hockey Association USA Hockey in the United States women's national ice hockey team called and took the team to the 4 Nations Cup in 2006 in part. In 2008, the defender played her first world championship , where she was able to celebrate the world title.

In the summer of 2009, Bellamy left the University of New Hampshire after completing her studies - and after winning the World Cup again - and switched to USA Hockey for the 2009/10 season in order to prepare for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . The Americans completed this by winning the silver medal. The defensive player finally switched to the professional field for the 2010/11 season and joined the Boston Blades from the Canadian Women's Hockey League . For this she played the following five years and won the Clarkson Cup , the championship trophy of the CWHL , with the team in 2013 and 2015 . By the time she left the Blades in the summer of 2015, she had won another Olympic silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , three world championships and a runner-up in world championships.

For the 2015/16 season Bellamy moved within the city of Boston to the Boston Pride , with which she competed in the newly formed National Women's Hockey League . In the premier season of the league, the defender won the Isobel Cup with the team . With the national team, she won the sixth and seventh world championships of her career at the 2016 and 2017 World Championships. Bellamy then turned her back on Pride, with which she had again stood in the championship finals, and the NWHL after two seasons and returned to USA Hockey for the 2017/18 season. In the association, she was preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where she won the gold medal with the Americans.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2013 Clarkson Cup win with the Boston Blades
  • 2015 participation in the CWHL All-Star Game
  • 2015 Clarkson Cup win with the Boston Blades
  • 2016 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game

International

Career statistics

Kacey Bellamy in the national jersey (2010)

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2005/06 University of New Hampshire Hockey East 37 8th 16 24 26th +39
2006/07 University of New Hampshire Hockey East 36 10 19th 29 22nd +23
2007/08 University of New Hampshire Hockey East 35 3 23 26th 54 +30
2008/09 University of New Hampshire Hockey East 35 6th 22nd 28 34
2009/10 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2010/11 Boston Blades CWHL 25th 2 13 15th 33 +7 - - - - - -
2011/12 Boston Blades CWHL 22nd 5 7th 12 24 +9 3 0 2 2 4th ± 0
2012/13 Boston Blades CWHL 24 1 8th 9 22nd +7 4th 0 3 3 12 +1
2013/14 Boston Blades CWHL 2 0 0 0 2 −1 4th 0 0 0 0 +2
2014/15 Boston Blades CWHL 18th 2 9 11 16 +10 3 0 1 1 6th −1
2015/16 Boston Pride NWHL 13 2 12 14th 12 4th 0 3 3 4th
2016/17 Boston Pride NWHL 17th 3 6th 9 20th +16 2 0 4th 4th 0 +2
2017/18 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2018/19 Calgary Inferno CWHL 27 6th 15th 21st 8th 4th 1 3 4th 4th
NCAA overall 143 27 80 107 136
CWHL overall 119 16 52 68 105 +32 18th 1 9 10 26th +2
NWHL total 30th 5 18th 23 32 6th 0 7th 7th 4th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2008 United States WM 1st place, gold 4th 0 2 2 6th +2
2009 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 0 2 2 4th +10
2010 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 0 1 1 4th +7
2011 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 1 2 2 +5
2012 United States WM 2nd place, silver 5 0 1 1 6th +2
2013 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 0 1 1 6th +3
2014 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 1 1 2 2 +1
2015 United States WM 1st place, gold 4th 1 1 2 0 ± 0
2016 United States WM 1st place, gold 4th 0 2 2 0 +5
2017 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 2 3 5 4th +10
2018 United States Olympia 1st place, gold 5 1 0 1 0 +3
2019 United States WM 1st place, gold 6th 0 1 1 4th +2
Women overall 58 6th 16 22nd 38 +50

( 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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personal data
SURNAME Bellamy, Kacey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellamy, Kacey Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Westfield , Massachusetts