Sami Jo Small

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Sami Jo Small
Date of birth March 25, 1976
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 81 kg
position goalkeeper
number #1
Catch hand Left
Career stations
1996-1999 Stanford University
1999-2001 Brampton Thunder
2002-2011 Toronto Eros
Mississauga Chiefs
since 2011 Toronto Furies

Samantha "Sami Jo" Small (* 25. March 1976 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and current -funktionärin that in since 2018 Toronto Furies in the Canadian Women's Hockey League as a general manager is active after of 2011 until 2018 was under contract there as a player. Her husband Billy Bridges is a sledge ice hockey player and Canadian national team.

Career

Sami Jo Small in the Mississauga Chiefs jersey (2008)
Sami Jo Small in the jersey of the Toronto Furies (2012)

Beginnings in Manitoba

Sami Jo Small was signed up for her first ice hockey training by her parents at the age of five and she was the only girl in her training group. She was later the first girl to play in the Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League , including for the Winnipeg Warriors AAA (Winnipeg Minor Hockey Association) and St. Vital Victorias AA (St. Vital Minor Hockey Association). At her French-speaking high school ( College Jeanne-Sauve ), she practiced various sports, from volleyball , basketball to water polo , handball and badminton . Her parents encouraged Sami Jo and her older brother Luke to do as many sports as they wanted as long as it didn't affect their school grades. Between 1993 and 1996 she was part of Manitoba's athletics selection , took part in the Canada Games in 1991, 1993 and 1997, and won the gold medal in the javelin and the silver medal in the discus throw at the Canada Games in 1997. In 1994, she was named Manitoba's High School Athlete of the Year. She also won regional championships in volleyball and badminton (1994) and two championship titles in inline hockey .

Sami Jo Small began playing in the goalkeeping position in ice hockey when her older brother Luke tried his hand at this position as well. Ultimately, she remained a goalkeeper and continued to work on her skills while her brother remained an outfield player.

Stanford University

After Small graduated from high school, she faced a dilemma: there weren't any hockey scholarships for women at the time, although she loved the sport most, so she eventually opted for an athletics scholarship at Stanford University and initially ran it Discus and javelin throw. However, several injuries ended her athletics career, so that Small came back to ice hockey. She played for the university's men's team for three years and was once named Pac-10 Most Valuable Player during this time . At the same time, she studied mechanical engineering and graduated in 1999. Last year at the university, she designed and constructed a tailor-made goalkeeper upper body protection for herself.

International success

In the run-up to the 1998 Winter Olympics , when women's ice hockey was part of the program for the first time as an Olympic sport, Small took part in a training camp for the Canadian women's national team, but initially did not make it into the Olympic squad. She was later added to the squad as the third goalkeeper. For the first time in her life she was part of a women's team. In the national team she met Manon Rhéaume , who had long been a role model for Small and from whom she learned a lot. In the Olympic ice hockey tournament itself, Sami Jo Small was not used and therefore - in contrast to the men's ice hockey - received no medal, although the Canadian women won the silver medal.

She then took part in the 1999 World Cup and won the gold medal with Team Canada. Further world championship titles followed in 2000 , 2001 and 2004 . She was named the best goalkeeper in 1999 and 2000 and was appointed to the All-Star team of the World Cup in 1999 .

In 2002 she was a member of the Olympic squad at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . She reached the final against the USA with the national team as the second goalkeeper behind Kim St-Pierre , in which they were defeated 3-2 and won their first Olympic gold medal. Sami Jo Small himself played in a game against Russia. Four years later, at the 2006 Winter Olympics , she traveled to Turin again as the third goalkeeper , remained without a role during the tournament and therefore did not receive a gold medal again.

She completed her last World Cup in 2007 when she was the third goalkeeper to take part in the tournament in her hometown of Winnipeg, but was not used. In total, she completed 51 international matches (2,768 minutes) for Canada, in which she achieved 15 shutouts , a goal against goals of 1.04 and a catch rate of 94.6%.

NWHL and CWHL

After completing her studies, St-Pierre played for the Brampton Thunder in the National Women's Hockey League from 1999 to 2001 , then between 2002 and 2011 for the Toronto Eros , who played under the name Mississauga Chiefs between 2007 and 2010 . In 2007 the NWHL was dissolved and Small was one of the founders of the Canadian Women's Hockey League , of which she was vice chairman until 2011. In addition, she has been responsible for marketing and sponsorship since the company was founded.

The Toronto Eros also moved to the CWHL as Mississauga Chiefs . In 2009 and 2010, Small was elected to the league's 2nd All-Star Team . In 2011 the Eros and Chiefs broke up and Small switched to the newly founded Toronto Furies . In 2014 she won the Clarkson Cup with the Furies .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season

season team league Sp Min S. OTN / U SOL L. GT GTS SVS Sv% SO
1996/97 Stanford University ACHA II
1997/98 Stanford University ACHA II
1998/99 Stanford University ACHA II
1999/00 Brampton Thunder NWHL 21st 1020: 00 15th 2 3 30th 1.47 4th
2000/01 Brampton Thunder NWHL 22nd 1290: 00 17th 3 2 36 1.67 5
2002/03 Beatrice Eros NWHL 19th 932: 30 16 1 0 16 1.03 298 94.9 4th
2003/04 Toronto Eros NWHL 24 1197: 00 19th 0 1 19th 0.95 380 95.2 7th
2004/05 Toronto Eros NWHL 20th 1108: 00 12 3 4th 34 1.84 482 93.4 5
2007/08 Mississauga Chiefs CWHL 15th 842: 00 9 5 28 2.00 2
2008/09 Mississauga Chiefs CWHL 1332: 00 13 2.25 4th
2009/10 Mississauga Chiefs CWHL
2010/11 Toronto Eros CWHL 18th 1139: 25 8th 0 4th 7th 55 2.90 589 91.5 2
2011/12 Toronto Furies CWHL 16 933: 13 5 2 2 7th 64 4.11 279 81.3 1
2012/13 Toronto Furies CWHL 5 361: 35 3 0 0 2 15th 2.49 128 89.5 1
2013/14 Toronto Furies CWHL 8th 488: 56 6th 0 1 1 18th 2.21 208 92.0 0
2014/15 Toronto Furies CWHL 5 308: 08 2 0 0 3 19th 3.70 153 89.0 0
2016/17 Toronto Furies CWHL 1 60:00 1 0 0 0 3 3.00 23 88.5 0
2017/18 Toronto Furies CWHL 4th 188: 00 2 0 0 0 8th 2.55 109 93.2 1

Playoffs

season team league Sp Min S. OTN / U SOL L. GT GTS SVS Sv% SO
2001 Brampton Thunder NWHL 4th 239: 00 3 1 0 5 1.26 0
2005 Toronto Eros NWHL 3 181: 00 2 1 0 3 0.99 61 95.3 1
2011 Toronto Furies CWHL 4th 200: 00 2 0 0 1 8th 2.40 150 94.9 1
2012 Toronto Furies CWHL 2 109: 00 0 0 0 2 11 6.06 0
2013 Toronto Furies CWHL 1 69:59 1 0 0 0 3 2.57 29 90.6 0
2015 Toronto Furies CWHL 1 20:00 0 0 0 0 1 3.00 14th 93.3 0

International

year team event Sp Min SaT GT GTS SVS Sv% SO
1999 Canada WM 3 180: 00 56 1 0.33 55 98.21 2
2000 Canada WM 3 150: 02 46 2 0.80 44 95.65 1
2001 Canada WM 2 120: 00 21st 1 0.50 20th 95.20 1
2002 Canada Olympia 1 60:00 6th 0 0.00 6th 100.00 1
2004 Canada WM 2 119: 59 22nd 1 0.50 21st 95.45 1

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Private

Sami Jo Small has been married to sledge ice hockey player Billy Bridges since 2011 . Bridges and Small first met in 2006 at a Right to Play event . As part of the women's ice hockey world championship in 2007 , the Canadian national para ice hockey team showed their skills, followed by a meeting between the two Canadian national teams, where Small and Bridges got to know each other better.

Web links

Commons : Sami Jo Small  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Sami Jo Small - Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame. In: etobicokesports.ca. December 6, 2016, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Sami Jo Small - About. In: samijosmall.ca. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Sami Jo Small. In: olympic.ca. December 4, 2013, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Nicole MacAdam: Sami Jo Small. In: theglobeandmail.com. August 24, 2009, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Entry List by Team - Canada (PDF file)
  6. ^ Olympic-Paralympic Marriage Aids Canada's Bridges. paralympic.org, March 14, 2012, accessed April 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Small, Sami Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Small, Samantha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada