Caroline Ouellette

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Caroline Ouellette
Date of birth May 25, 1979
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 78 kg
position striker
number # 13
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1998-2001 Bonaventure / Montréal Wingstar
2002-2005 University of Minnesota Duluth
2006 Montréal Axion
2006-2008 Minnesota Whitecaps
since 2008 Les Canadiennes de Montréal

Caroline Ouellette (born May 25, 1979 in Montreal , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has played for Les Canadiennes de Montréal in the Canadian Women's Hockey League since 2008 . The striker was part of the Canadian national team between 1999 and 2015 and won six world titles and four gold medals at the Winter Olympics .

Career

Youth and Beginnings in the NWHL

Caroline Ouellette started playing ice hockey at the age of ten and was also active as a softball player in her youth . She represented her home province of Québec at the Canada Games in 1995 in ice hockey and in 1997 in softball. In the same year she won her first gold medal at the Canadian Championships with the Québec U18 team.

For the 1998/99 season, Ouellette joined the Bonaventure Wingstar from the newly formed National Women's Hockey League , which was renamed the Montréal Wingstar for the following season . Already in her debut season, the 19-year-old established herself as one of the strongest attacking players in the league and finished second in the scorer ranking. At the same time, she represented the province of Québec at the Esso Women's Nationals , the Canadian amateur championships, and won the gold medal there in 1999 and 2002.

college

After spending a year at Concordia University in Montreal, Ouellette attended the US University of Minnesota Duluth from 2001 and played for their ice hockey team, the Bulldogs , in the National Collegiate Athletic Association for three years . Ouellette finished this time with an average of over two scorer points per game and set a school record that is still valid today with 137 assists from 97 games. In her debut season, she won the NCAA championship with the Bulldogs and was named Most Valuable Player of the Final Tournament. Two years later, the Canadian was involved in over 60 percent of her team's goals and was nominated as one of three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award , which is given annually to the best player in college ice hockey.

For the 2007/08 season she returned to the team as an assistant coach with Julie Chu . In a vote in 2009, Ouellette was voted into the All-Star-Team of the past decade by the WCHA .

Minnesota Whitecaps and Montreal Stars

Caroline Ouellette with the Clarkson Cup 2011

After graduating from college, Ouellette briefly played again for her former team from the NWHL, which had since been renamed Montreal Axion, and won the league championship with this in 2006. She then joined the Minnesota Whitecaps from the Western Women's Hockey League before returning to her hometown in 2008.

Since 2008 she has played for the Stars de Montréal (since 2015 Les Canadiennes de Montréal ) in the Canadian Women's Hockey League . With these she won the Clarkson Cup four times (2009, 2011, 2012 and 2017) , the equivalent of the Stanley Cup in women's ice hockey, and was awarded the MVP of the final series in 2009 and 2012 . In the regular season , the Canadian reached the top of the scorer ranking ( Angela James Bowl ) for the first time in the 2010/11 season and, as in 2009, was voted the most valuable player.

In 2017, she was temporarily suspended from play operations to have her first child. At the end of January 2018, she returned to the Canadiennes squad.

International

Caroline Ouellette was part of the first Canadian U19 national team for women in 1996, where she stood on the ice with the later speed skater Cindy Klassen, among others . She has played in the Canadian national team since 1999 , was assistant captain from 2006 and team captain at the 2014 Winter Olympics . In 2013 she reached the mark of 200 internationals.

Ouellette achieved her first international success with Team Canada at the 1999 World Cup in Finland, where she was the youngest player to win the gold medal. Also in 2000 , 2001 , 2004 , 2007 , 2012 she became world champion with the team and scored the winning goal in overtime in the 2012 final . In 2005 , 2008 , 2009 , 2011 , 2013 and 2015 she won the silver medal.

Ouellette won gold medals at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 , 2006 , 2010 and 2014 . In addition to her teammates Jayna Hefford and Hayley Wickenheiser , the Soviet biathlete Alexander Tichonow and the German speed skater Claudia Pechstein , Ouellette is one of five athletes who have achieved four Olympic victories in a row at the Winter Games.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

College, NWHL, WWHL and CWHL

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998/99 Bonaventure Wingstar NWHL 27 32 28 60 6th - - - - -
1999/00 Montréal Wingstar NWHL 25th 26th 27 53 6th - - - - -
2000/01 Montréal Wingstar NWHL 31 22nd 37 58 28 4th 6th 6th 12 2
2000/01 Concordia University CIS 7th 12 7th 19th 0
2002/03 University of Minnesota-Duluth WCHA 32 31 42 73 16
2003/04 University of Minnesota-Duluth WCHA 32 29 47 76 16
2004/05 University of Minnesota-Duluth WCHA 33 32 48 80 18th
2005/06 Montréal Axion NWHL 2 0 3 3 0
2006/07 Minnesota Whitecaps WWHL 8th 0 2 2 4th 1 0 0 0 0
2007/08 Minnesota Whitecaps WWHL 9 7th 9 16 0 1 1 3 4th 0
2008/09 Stars de Montréal CWHL 24 25th 33 58 6th - - - - -
2010/11 Stars de Montréal CWHL 29 22nd 46 68 16 4th 1 5 6th 4th
2011/12 Stars de Montréal CWHL 27 30th 36 66 12 4th 5 3 8th 2
2012/13 Stars de Montréal CWHL 23 13 13 26th 14th 4th 1 1 2 6th
2013/14 Stars de Montréal CWHL 2 2 0 2 4th 3 0 3 3 2
2014/15 Stars de Montréal CWHL 22nd 8th 18th 26th 18th 3 1 2 3 0
2015/16 Les Canadiennes de Montréal CWHL 24 15th 17th 32 18th 3 4th 6th 10 0
2016/17 Les Canadiennes de Montréal CWHL 22nd 15th 16 31 4th
2017/18 Les Canadiennes de Montréal CWHL
NWHL total 83 80 92 172 40 6th 6th 9 15th 2
CWHL overall 173 130 179 309 92 21st 12 20th 32 14th

International

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1999 Canada WM gold 5 2 5 7th 4th
2000 Canada WM gold 5 0 2 2 2
2001 Canada WM gold 5 2 3 5 4th
2002 Canada Olympia gold 5 2 4th 6th 6th
2004 Canada WM gold 5 3 6th 9 0
2005 Canada WM silver 5 2 6th 8th 0
2006 Canada Olympia gold 5 5 4th 9 0
2007 Canada WM gold 5 1 3 4th 2
2008 Canada WM silver 5 2 4th 6th 4th
2009 Canada WM silver 5 3 5 8th 6th
2010 Canada Olympia gold 5 2 9 11 2
2011 Canada WM silver 5 1 2 3 2
2013 Canada WM gold 5 4th 5 9 6th
2013 Canada WM silver 4th 1 2 3 2
2014 Canada Olympia gold 5 0 0 0 2
2015 Canada WM silver 5 2 2 4th 2
World championships overall 59 23 45 68 34
Olympic Games total 20th 9 17th 26th 10

( 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 )

Private

Ouellette is married to the ice hockey player Julie Chu . In November 2017, the couple announced the birth of their first daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on carolineouellette.ca ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.carolineouellette.ca
  2. ^ All-Time Alumnae , University of Minnesota Duluth
  3. ^ Western Womens Hockey League - OUELLETTE, Caroline. In: esportsdesk.com. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ thecwhl: Caroline Ouellette Set to Return This Weekend - Canadian Women's Hockey League. In: thecwhl.com. January 23, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018 .
  5. ^ New National Women's Under-19 Team Program Launched ( November 24, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ), Hockey Canada , May 15, 1996
  6. ^ Caroline Ouellette, Sidney Crosby and Greg Westlake named captains for 2014 Olympic Winter Games and 2014 Paralympic Winter Games , Hockey Canada, January 19, 2014
  7. ↑ Player profile on the Hockey Canada website
  8. ^ Hefford, Apps, Ward retire from Canadian women's hockey team , CBC Sports , Sept. 10, 2015
  9. ↑ Ashifa Kassam: Canada-US ice hockey rivalry thaws as former captains have child together. In: theguardian.com. November 14, 2017, accessed January 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ouellette, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec