Alex Carpenter

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Alex Carpenter
Date of birth April 13, 1994
place of birth North Reading , Massachusetts , USA
size 171 cm
Weight 70 kg
position center
number # 25
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2007-2011 The Governor's Academy
2011-2016 Boston College
2016-2017 Boston Pride
since 2018 Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays

Alexandra "Alex" Carpenter (* 13. April 1994 in North Reading , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who since January 2018 at the Shenzhen Vanke KRS Rays from the Canadian Women's Hockey League on the position of the center plays. Carpenter, whose father Bobby was a player in the National Hockey League for many years , has been a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team since 2012 and is multiple world champion.

Career

Carpenter in the jersey of the US national team

Carpenter spent her high school years at The Governor's Academy in Byfield , Massachusetts, from 2007 to 2011 . With her as the outstanding player, the team won the regional championship trophy in all four years. The striker ended her school days with 427 points in 100 games. During this period Carpenter had competed with the US national team in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2010 and 2011 . There, after winning the silver medal in 2010, she secured the world championship title the following year. As part of the tournament, Carpenter was named the best striker, she was also top scorer and top goalscorer.

In the summer of 2011, the American moved to Boston College , where she was a member for the next five years. In addition to her studies, she played successfully for the university team in Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In her third participation in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2012 , she won her second silver medal and was also named the best attacker in the competition for the second time.

From 2013, the center forward was a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team . At her first major tournament, the 2013 World Cup , she was able to win the world title straight away. The following year, she left Boston College for a season to prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi with the US Hockey Association . In the end there was a silver medal. Then Carpenter returned to Boston College and secured the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award for best college player in the country because of her performances at the end of the season . In addition, she won the world championship again with the national team at the 2015 World Cup. In 2016 and 2017 she won the third and fourth title personally, with her overtime goal making it 1-0 in the final against Canada in 2016, which made a significant contribution to the gold win.

At the national level, Carpenter had meanwhile successfully completed her college years in 2016 by winning the Hockey East championship for the first time. For the 2016/17 season she then moved to the National Women's Hockey League for the Boston Pride , which she had signed in April 2016 in a transfer deal with the New York Riveters . The Riveters had chosen Carpenter as the first overall place in the 2015 NWHL Draft . After a season with the Pride, Carpenter went back to the Olympic preparation with USA Hockey in the 2017/18 season, before she and Megan Bozek were the last two players to be removed from the provisional Olympic squad in January 2018. The American then moved to the women's team of Kunlun Red Star , which she selected in the second round of the 2017 CWHL Draft , in the Canadian Women's Hockey League . At the time of their engagement, the team was mainly looked after by their father Bobby Carpenter .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2011/12 Boston College Hockey East 35 21st 18th 39 8th +13
2012/13 Boston College Hockey East 37 32 38 70 10 +46
2013/14 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2014/15 Boston College Hockey East 37 37 44 81 13 +60
2015/16 Boston College Hockey East 41 43 45 88 6th +61
2016/17 Boston Pride NWHL 17th 9 20th 29 0 +29 2 3 3 6th 0 +6
2017/18 Kunlun Red Star CWHL 13 5 7th 12 0 4th 1 0 1 0
2018/19 Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays CWHL 28 17th 14th 31 0 - - - - - -
NCAA overall 150 133 145 278 37 +180
CWHL overall 41 22nd 21st 43 0 4th 1 0 1 0

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2010 United States U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 5 8th 1 9 0 +7
2011 United States U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 5 6th 4th 10 0 +4
2012 United States U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 5 4th 5 9 2 +14
2013 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 2 3 0 +1
2014 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 4th 1 5 2 −1
2015 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 2 1 3 0 +5
2016 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 2 3 0 +4
2017 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 0 1 2 +1
2019 United States WM 1st place, gold 7th 2 5 7th 0 +4
Total juniors 15th 18th 10 28 2 +25
Women overall 32 11 11 22nd 4th +14

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Alex Carpenter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Murphy: Winter Olympics 2018: USA inexplicably goes for gold without snubbed Alex Carpenter. In: sportingnews.com. January 10, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kunlun Adds 2017 Draft Pick, Alex Carpenter. In: thecwhl.com. January 15, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpenter, Alexandra (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH North Reading , Massachusetts