Cassie Campbell

Cassie Campbell
Date of birth	November 22, 1973
place of birth	Richmond Hill , Ontario , Canada
size	170 cm
Weight	66 kg
position	Defender / Right Wing
number	# 77
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1996	Mississauga Chiefs
1992-1997	University of Guelph
1996-1997	North York Eros
1998-2000	Beatrice Eros
2000-2005	Calgary Oval X-Treme

Cassie Dawn Campbell , married. Campbell-Pascall , CM (born November 22, 1973 in Richmond Hill , Ontario ) is a Canadian sports journalist and former ice hockey player . She led the Canadian women's national team as captain to Olympic gold in 2002 and 2006 , she was also six-time world champion with Team Canada and won the silver medal at the 1998 Olympic Games and the 2005 World Cup . Campbell originally played in defense , but retrained to become a right winger in 1999 .

Ice hockey career

Campbell began ice skating at the age of five and soon began playing hockey, mostly in boys' teams as a child and adolescent.

In 1992 she became a college player at the University of Guelph , for which she played until 1996. In her rookie year she was appointed to the second all-star team of the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Association , and in 1995 and 1996 to the first-all-star team of the association, but the greatest success was winning the Canadian ice hockey championship in 1995 She played from 1993 to 1996 for the Mississauga Chiefs in the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League .

While still in college, she was appointed to the squad of the Canadian national team for the world championship for the first time in 1994 and was instantly world champion. She also won gold in six of the next eight major international tournaments (1997 World Cup, 1998 Olympics, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Olympics, 2004 World Cup, 2006 Olympics), only the 1998 Olympic Games and the 2005 World Cup had to win her gold Each team defeated the United States in the final. From 1997 to the 2001 tournament, she was assistant captain of the team and from 2001 to her retirement, she was captain of Team Canada .

In 1999 she became the first team captain of the Beatrice Eros in the first season of the National Women's Hockey League and led her to the Canadian runner-up . In 2000 she moved to the Calgary Oval X-Treme , with this team she became Canadian champion in 2001 and 2003. After joining the Western Women's Hockey League as the founding team in 2004, the team won the new league's first championship in 2005 . Then Campbell ended her career as a professional player and only played for a while for the national team.

In late August 2006, Campbell ended her time as an active player. For the Canadian selection, she completed 157 games in which she was able to achieve exactly 100 points scorer (32 goals, 68 assists ). At the time of her departure, she was sixth on the team's all-time best of points.

After ice hockey

After the end of her active career, she began working for the Canadian television stations CBC and TSN as an ice hockey reporter, in October 2006 she became the first woman to co-comment on an NHL game during Hockey Night in Canada . Campbell is the chief reporter for women's ice hockey at the sports broadcaster TSN.

In addition, Campbell published a non-fiction book about the Canadian women's ice hockey team called HEARTS in 2007 , and a motivational book called Some Things I've Learned in 2008 .

Achievements and Awards

1994 gold medal at the world championship 1997 gold medal at the world championship 1997 World Championship All-Star Team 1998 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games 1999 gold medal at the world championship 2000 gold medal at the world championships

2001 gold medal at the world championship 2002 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games 2004 gold medal at the world championship 2005 silver medal at the world championship 2006 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Honors

In Brampton , Ontario , the city where Campbell grew up, a municipal multi-sport center with ice hockey, athletics and figure skating rinks, as well as numerous outdoor sports fields, has been built since 2006, which was named "Cassie Campbell Community Center" in Campbell's honor.

In 2007 she was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and, as the first ever female ice hockey player, into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame . In 2012 she received the Order of Hockey in Canada and was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2016 .

Works

• with Lorna Schultz Nicholson : "HEARTS", Key Porter Books, Toronto, November 2007, ISBN 978-1-55168-315-7
• "Some Things I've Learned: Lessons on Motivation, Passion, Excellence, and More," Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2008, ISBN 978-1-55263-913-9

Web links

• Official Homepage of Campbell ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} " U of G Grad Cassie Campbell Retires " in the Campus Bulletin of the University of Guelph on August 31, 2006 ( visited August 18, 2008 ).
2. ↑ Biography on Campbell's official website ( visited August 18, 2008 ).
3. ^ Info page for the Cassie Campbell Community Center on the official website of the City of Brampton, Ontario ( visited August 18, 2008 ).
4. ^ Entry on Campbell on the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame website ( accessed March 28, 2017 ).
5. ↑ Entry on Campbell ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2017 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. on the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame website ( accessed March 28, 2017 ).