Gina Kingsbury
Date of birth | November 26, 1981 |
place of birth | Uranium City , Saskatchewan , Canada |
size | 173 cm |
Weight | 62 kg |
position | center |
number | # 22 |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
1999-2000 | Hotchkiss School |
2000-2004 | St. Lawrence University |
2004-2005 | Axion de Montréal |
2006-2009 | Calgary Oval X-Treme |
Gina Kingsbury (born November 26, 1981 in Uranium City , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian national ice hockey player and current coach and official. She has been General Manager of the Canadian Women's National Team since 2018 .
Career
Gina Kingsbury began ice hockey at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville , Connecticut , where she also played softball and field hockey . During her school days she took part in the Canada Winter Games in 1995 . Further participations followed four years later (still as a student) and in 2005 as a player at Axion de Montréal .
St. Lawrence
Between 2000 and 2004 she played for the Skating Saints , the ice hockey team at St. Lawrence University , in ECAC Hockey . She also studied psychology at the university . With the Skating Saints she reached the final tournament of the NCAA, the so-called Frozen Four, twice in four years . In her final college season, she scored 26 goals and 31 assists in 33 games, placing her in seventh place on the NCAA scorer list. She was elected to the All-America First Team for the performance shown.
She finished her college career at St. Lawrence University with a total of 160 scorer points, including 79 goals, making her one of the top five scorers at St. Lawrence University today.
After completing her studies, Kingsbury first played for the Axion de Montréal in the National Women's Hockey League . In the 2005/06 season, she prepared with Team Canada for the Winter Olympics in Turin before she was active between 2006 and 2009 for the Calgary Oval X-Treme in the Western Women's Hockey League . With the Oval X-Treme she won the WWHL Champions Cup in 2007 and 2008 .
International
For more than ten years Kingsbury was part of the squad of the Canadian national team and participated with this in a variety of tournaments. In 1999 she ran for the first time for the U22 national team; her first world championship followed in 2001. In this tournament she scored two goals and two assists and won the gold medal at the end of the tournament.
In 2006 she took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time and ran there together with Meghan Agosta and Katie Weatherston in a series of attacks. Kingsbury gave three assists in the course of the tournament and ultimately won the Olympic gold medal with Team Canada. In addition, between 2004 and 2009 she took part in a total of five other world championships, where she won two more gold and three silver medals.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics , Kingsbury won their second gold medal. Then she ended her career.
As a trainer
Even as a player, Kingsbury was involved as the IIHF's ice hockey ambassador and was responsible for France.
After her career ended, Kingsbury was a coach at the "Okanagan Hockey School" in British Columbia . She later worked as an assistant coach to Shannon Miller at the University of Minnesota-Duluth .
In the 2013/14 season, Kingsbury supported the French ice hockey federation as assistant coach of the U18 junior national team. In 2015 she became an assistant coach of the Calgary Inferno of the Canadian Women's Hockey League . At the same time, she took on the newly created post of director of the women's national ice hockey teams at Hockey Canada in July 2015 . She also looked after the Canadian U18 national team at the 2016 World Cup as an assistant coach. Since July 2018, Kingsbury has succeeded Melody Davidson as General Manager of the Canadian national team.
Achievements and Awards
- 2007 WWHL Champions Cup winner with the Calgary Oval X-Treme
- 2008 WWHL Champions Cup winner with the Calgary Oval X-Treme
International
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Career statistics
( 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 )
College and WWHL
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1999/00 | Hotchkiss School | USHS | ||||||||||||
2000/01 | St. Lawrence University | NCAA | 28 | 14th | 15th | 29 | 22nd | |||||||
2001/02 | St. Lawrence University | NCAA | 21st | 19th | 12 | 31 | 12 | |||||||
2002/03 | St. Lawrence University | NCAA | 28 | 15th | 20th | 35 | 22nd | |||||||
2003/04 | St. Lawrence University | NCAA | 37 | 31 | 34 | 65 | 8th | |||||||
2004/05 | Axion de Montréal | NWHL | 30th | 31 | 29 | 50 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
2006/07 | Calgary Oval X-Treme | WWHL | 19th | 11 | 20th | 31 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2007/08 | Calgary Oval X-Treme | WWHL | 23 | 20th | 25th | 45 | 8th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | ||
2008/09 | Calgary Oval X-Treme | WWHL | 21st | 24 | 30th | 54 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
NCAA overall | 114 | 79 | 81 | 160 | 64 | |||||||||
WWHL total | 63 | 55 | 75 | 130 | 26th | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4th |
International
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | +/- | |
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2001 | Canada | WM | gold medal | 4th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 0 | +2 | |
2004 | Canada | WM | gold medal | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | +4 | |
2005 | Canada | WM | Silver medal | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4th | +3 | |
2006 | Canada | Olympia | gold medal | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | +3 | |
2007 | Canada | WM | gold medal | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +3 | |
2008 | Canada | WM | Silver medal | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 0 | +3 | |
2009 | Canada | WM | Silver medal | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | +4 | |
2010 | Canada | Olympia | gold medal | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6th | +5 |
Web links
- Gina Kingsbury at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Gina Kingsbury in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Gina Kingsbury at esportsdesk.com
- Gina Kingsbury at uscho.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elite Prospects - All Time Regular Season Player Stats for St. Lawrence Univ. In: eliteprospects.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Gina Kingsbury. In: olympic.ca. April 3, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Chris Jurewicz: Kingsbury comes back. In: hockeycanada.ca. January 19, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
- ^ Athlete Ambassador - France: Gina Kingsbury. In: webarchive.iihf.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Gina jumps at the opportunity. In: webarchive.iihf.com. September 17, 2015, accessed June 26, 2019 .
- ^ Kingsbury '04 Selected to Manage Canadian Women's Hockey Team. In: saintsathletics.com. July 26, 2018, accessed June 26, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kingsbury, Gina |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player, coach and functionary |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1981 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Uranium City , Saskatchewan |