Colleen Sostorics

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Colleen Sostorics
Date of birth 17th December 1979
place of birth Kennedy , Saskatchewan , Canada
Nickname Stubs
size 163 cm
Weight 76 kg
position defender
number # 5
Shot hand Right
Career stations
until 1997 Kennedy Bantam
1997-2003 University of Calgary
1999-2009 Calgary Oval X-Treme

Colleen Sostorics (born December 17, 1979 in Kennedy , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian national ice hockey player who was active for the Calgary Oval X-Treme between 1999 and 2009 . With the Canadian national team , she won three gold medals at the Winter Olympics and six medals at world championships .

Career

ice Hockey

Colleen Sostorics began ice hockey in her hometown of Kennedy and played on the local boys' team until she was 17 years old. In the 1996 season she was appointed captain of her team, which at that time was playing at the bantam level. At the Canada Winter Games 1995, Sostorics played for the Saskatchewan team . Two years later she also took part in the national Canadian U18 championships. After her junior years, she got the offer to study at the University of Calgary and play for its ice hockey team, the Calgary Dinos , in the CIAU . Sostorics began studying economics in Calgary and was appointed to the all-star team of the CIAU college league at the end of the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons .

Calgary Oval X-Treme

From the 1999/2000 season she played parallel for the semi-professional ice hockey team Calgary Oval X-Treme in the National Women's Hockey League and later in the Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL). In addition, the team represented the province of Alberta from 1998 onwards at the Canadian women 's national championship, the Esso Women's Nationals . Oval X-Treme won the championship in 1998 and came second in 1999 and third in 2000.

With Calgary Oval X-Treme Sosotorics reached the final of the Canadian Championship again in 2001, 2003 and 2007 and won it. In addition, the team is series champions of the WWHL.

International

In 1999 Sostorics made her debut in the Canadian U22 national team and took part with this in the 1999 Christmas Cup, which ended the national selection as the winner. In the following two years she took part with the U22 team in the U22 4 Nations Cups and won them. in the 2000/01 season she was also captain of the U22 team. Because of her achievements in the U22 team, she was appointed to the Canadian women's national team in 2001 and took part in the 2001 World Cup with them. Sostorics contributed two goals and one assist to the Canadians' gold medal win.

In 2002 Sostorics was part of Team Canada, which won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In 2006 and 2010 the selection team was able to repeat this success. In addition, she won other gold and silver medals at world championships with Team Canada. After winning the third gold medal, she officially ended her career in September 2010.

Sostorics has been an assistant trainer at the University of Regina since 2015 .

Other sports

In her youth, Sostorics played football and softball in addition to ice hockey . In 1997 she won the regional championships in her age group in all three sports. She was also named Most Valuable Player of the Regional Softball Championship in 1994 and 1995 . She has been playing summer rugby since college and won the Canadian National Rugby Championship in 2003 with Team Alberta .

Others

After winning the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, a street in her hometown of Kennedy was named after Sostorics - Colleen Sostorics Avenue . In 2004 she graduated from the University of Calgary with a bachelor's degree in economics .

Achievements and Awards

National

  • All-Star Team of the CIAU 1998 and 1999
  • Won the Esso Women's Nationals in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2007 with Team Alberta (Calgary Oval X-Treme)
  • Champion of WWHL 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 with the Calgary Oval X-Treme
  • Champion of the NWHL in 2003 and 2004 with the Calgary Oval X-Treme
  • 2003 Canadian Rugby Champion with Alberta

International

statistics

International

Statistics sources: Media Guide Olympics 2006; Media Guide Olympics 2010

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1999 U22 Canada Christmas Cup 6th 1 1 2 4th
2000 U22 Canada U22 4 Nations Cup 4th 0 3 3 8th
2001 U22 Canada U22 3 Nations Cup 4th 1 0 1 0
2001 Canada WM 5 2 1 3 2
2001 Canada 3 Nations Cup 4th 0 3 3 4th
2002 Canada Olympia 5 0 2 2 4th
2002 Canada 4 Nations Cup 4th 1 0 1 2
2003 Canada 4 Nations Cup 4th 0 1 1 2
2004 Canada WM 5 1 1 2 2
2004 Canada 4 Nations Cup 4th 0 1 1 0
2005 Canada WM 5 0 0 0 4th
2006 Canada Olympia 4th 0 1 1 2
2006 Canada 4 Nations Cup 4th 1 3 4th 4th
2007 Canada WM 5 0 3 3 2
2007 Canada 4 Nations Cup 4th 1 1 2 8th
2008 Canada WM 5 0 2 2 10
2009 Canada WM 5 1 1 2 2
2009 Canada HC Cup 4th 0 1 1 2
2009 Canada 4 Nations Cup 3 1 0 1 0
2010 Canada Olympia 5 1 5 6th 2
U22 team overall 20th 2 8th 10 20th
Team Canada overall 133 13 43 56 108

National

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1999/00 Calgary Oval X-Treme Alberta 17th 3 7th 10 -
2000/01 Calgary Oval X-Treme Alberta 17th 4th 6th 10 4th
2001/02 Preparation with Team Canada
2002/03 Calgary Oval X-Treme NWHL 16 5 13 18th 32 1 1 1 2 0
2003/04 Calgary Oval X-Treme NWHL 6th 5 5 10 2 2 0 0 0 0
2004/05 Calgary Oval X-Treme WWHL 16 7th 16 23 28 3 2 1 3 0
2005/06 Preparation with Team Canada
2006/07 Calgary Oval X-Treme WWHL 20th 15th 21st 36 31 - - - - -
2007/08 Calgary Oval X-Treme WWHL 19th 9 17th 26th 8th 3 1 0 1 4th
2008/09 Calgary Oval X-Treme WWHL 22nd 7th 18th 25th 6th 2 2 1 3 0

( 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 : Colleen Sostorics  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Colleen Sostorics: Hockey. Slam Sports, 2006, accessed March 15, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Team Canada Training Camp Media Guide. Hockey Canada, accessed August 30, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Greg Harder, Leader-Post: Canadian Olympic gold medalist Colleen Sostorics hangs up her skates. In: leaderpost.com. September 16, 2010, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Kennedy, Sask., Lives and dies with team and hero. (No longer available online.) CTV, February 7, 2006, archived from the original on February 22, 2006 ; Retrieved March 15, 2010 . 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.ctv.ca
  5. ↑ 2010 women's Olympic hockey team
personal data
SURNAME Sostorics, Colleen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Kennedy , Saskatchewan, Canada