Cammi Granato

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United StatesUnited States  Cammi Granato Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2008
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2010
Date of birth March 25, 1971
place of birth Downers Grove , Illinois , USA
size 170 cm
Weight 64 kg
position Right wing
number # 21
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1989-1993 Providence College
1994-1997 Concordia University
2001-2003 Vancouver Griffins
2004-2006 British Columbia Breakers

Catherine Michelle "Cammi" Granato (born March 25, 1971 in Downers Grove , Illinois ) is a former American ice hockey player of Italian descent who has won numerous medals at world championships and Winter Olympics as captain of the US national team . She is the first woman, along with Angela James , to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November 2010 . Her brother Tony was also a hockey player.

Career

Beginnings in Downers Grove

Cammi Granato was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, about 30 km west of Chicago . She has a total of four brothers and one sister, with all of her brothers playing ice hockey in their childhood . Cammi, the youngest sibling in the family, also chose this sport. Her brothers tried to persuade her to become a goalkeeper , but Cammi wanted - like her brothers - to score goals herself. At the age of five, her parents signed up Cammi with the local ice hockey club after taking skating lessons. In the following years she developed into one of the best young talents in the region, where she was only active in boys' teams until she was 16. Her dream at the time was "one day to play for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League " .

In the last two years of her high school time, Granato temporarily stopped playing ice hockey, since physical contact was allowed for male ice hockey players from this point on, she felt “as a target of such attacks and was afraid of the resulting injuries” . During those two years she played basketball, soccer, handball, tennis and baseball instead.

College ice hockey

In 1989 Granato received a scholarship from Providence College , which was one of the few universities in the country to operate women's ice hockey . She then studied social sciences and played for the college's ice hockey team, the Providence Friars , in the ECAC , a college league of the NCAA . She quickly established herself in this new environment and was named ECAC Rookie of the Year in her freshman year of college . As assistant captain of the Friars, she led her team to the championship title in 1992 and 1993. She was also named ECAC Player of the Year three times in a row between 1991 and 1993 . In a total of 93 ECAC games for Providence, she scored 135 goals and 110 assists . She finished her studies in 1993 with a degree in social sciences.

After graduating, she was no longer allowed to play in the NCAA and therefore decided in 1994 to move to Canada to do a Masters in Sports Management at Concordia University . At the same time, she played for the university's ice hockey team, the Concordia Stingers in the Quebec Conference (QSSF) of the CIS . With the Stingers she won the Conference championship three times in a row and collected 179 goals and 151 assists in a total of 125 games. She was also named Most Valuable Player in 1996 and was appointed to the Conference All-Star Team in 1996 and 1997 .

In June 1997, Mike Milbury , the then manager of the New York Islanders , invited her to the Islanders training camp, but Granato ultimately declined.

NWHL

Granato played between 2001 and 2003 for the Vancouver Griffins in the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) and led the team in their second year as a captain on the ice. In the 2004/05 season and at the beginning of the 2005/06 season she was active for the British Columbia Breakers (BC Breakers) in the Western Women's Hockey League , before taking part in the Olympic preparation with the national team.

International

Cammi Granato belonged to the first generation of American women to represent their country in international ice hockey tournaments. In the course of her career, she completed a total of nine world championships , two Olympic Winter Games , two Pacific championships and a large number of other tournaments for national teams. She won one Olympic gold and one silver medal as well as eight silver and one gold medal at world championships.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics , the first women's Olympic ice hockey tournament, she led Team USA onto the ice as captain and won the gold medal. During the tournament, Granato scored the first ever goal for the USA women's team at the Olympics.

Shortly before the 2006 Winter Olympics , Granato was eliminated from the US squad and then ended her national team career.

After retirement

After graduating, Granato was a temporary commentator on the Los Angeles Kings NHL games . After the end of her active career, she continued this activity and worked as a sports journalist for NBC's NHL broadcasts . At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she commented on the women's ice hockey games for NBC.

She is also the founder of the Golden Dreams for Children Foundation , which cares for disadvantaged children, runs an annual training camp for girls in Chicago, and is co-owner of BelaHockey , a company that makes ice hockey items for girls and women.

In 2007 she received the Lester Patrick Trophy for her contributions to ice hockey in the United States. In May 2008 she was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame along with Geraldine Heaney and Angela James . A few months later, Granato was also inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame as the first woman .

On November 8, 2010, Granato was finally inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame along with Angela James .

Achievements and Awards

college

  • 1991 ECAC Rookie of the Year
  • 1991 ECAC Player of the Year
  • 1992 won the ECAC championship with the Providence Friars
  • 1992 ECAC Player of the Year
  • 1993 won the ECAC championship with the Providence Friars
  • 1993 ECAC Player of the Year
  • 1995 Won the QSSF conference with the Concordia Stingers
  • 1996 won the QSSF conference with the Concordia Stingers
  • 1996 Most Valuable Player of the QSSF
  • 1996 All-Star Team of the QSSF
  • 1997 won the QSSF conference with the Concordia Stingers
  • 1996 All-Star-Team of the QSSF

International

Career statistics

National competitions

season team league Sp T V Pt SM
1989/90 Providence College ECAC 24 24 22nd 46
1990/91 Providence College ECAC 22nd 26th 20th 46
1991/92 Providence College ECAC 25th 48 32 80
1992/93 Providence College ECAC 28 41 43 84
1995/96 Concordia Stingers CIS
1996/97 Concordia Stingers CIS
1997/98 Team USA Pre-season 33 14th 19th 33
1999/00 Team USA Pre-season 20th 17th 25th 42
2000/01 Team USA Pre-season 33 36 32 68
2001/02 Team USA Pre-season 25th 27 21st 48
2002/03 Vancouver Griffins NWHL 17th 18th 15th 33 6th
2004/05 BC Breakers WWHL 21st 8th 11 19th 30th
2005/06 BC Breakers WWHL 3 0 0 0 0

International competitions

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1990 United States WM 5 9 5 14th 4th
1992 United States WM 5 8th 2 10 2
1994 United States WM 5 5 7th 12 6th
1995 United States Pacific 5 4th 7th 11 4th
1996 United States Pacific 5 5 3 8th 0
1997 United States WM 5 5 3 8th 4th
1998 United States Olympia 6th 4th 4th 8th 0
1999 United States WM 5 3 5 8th 0
2000 United States WM 5 6th 1 7th 0
2001 United States WM 5 7th 6th 13 0
2002 United States Olympia 5 6th 4th 10 0
2004 United States WM 3 0 2 2 0
2005 United States WM 5 1 3 4th 2
total 64 63 52 115 22nd

Private

Granato now lives in Vancouver with her husband Ray Ferraro , who was also a hockey player.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ niashf.org, Cammi Granato
  2. ↑ a b legendsofhockey.net, The Legends - Cammi Granato - Biography
  3. ^ A b Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends , Cammi Granato , July 26, 2008
  4. ↑ a b athletics.concordia.ca, Stinger Granato selected for Hockey Hall of Fame , June 25, 2010
  5. ↑ Michael Farber: The Ice Queen. Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on March 5, 2012 ; Retrieved June 6, 2013 .
  6. ^ Steve Rosenbloom: Granato makes history again. The Chicago Tribune , February 9, 1998, accessed June 6, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Women pioneers highlight IIHF class of 2008. IIHF , accessed June 6, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Candace Horgan: Granato, Leetch, Hull and Richter Inducted into US Hockey Hall of Fame. uscho.com, October 16, 2008, accessed June 6, 2013 .
  9. ^ Ciccarelli, Granato and James Elected to Hall of Game. The Sports Network , June 22, 2010, accessed June 6, 2013 .
  10. ^ USA Hockey , Annual Awards - Through the Years
  11. ↑ westernwomenshockeyleague.com, statistics for Cammi Granato

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personal data
SURNAME Granato, Cammi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granato, Catherine Michelle Cammi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Downers Grove , Illinois , United States