Jennifer Botterill

Jennifer Botterill
Date of birth	May 1, 1979
place of birth	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	69 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1997-1998	Team Canada
1998-2003	Harvard Crimson
2003-2005	Toronto Eros
2006-2009	Mississauga Eros / Chiefs
2010-2011	Toronto Eros

Jennifer Lori Botterill , OM (born May 1, 1979 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player . In her career she was twice Olympic champion and five times world champion with the Canadian national team .

Career

Botterill in the Mississauga Chiefs' jersey (2009)

In her youth, Botterill attended the National Sport School in Calgary , Canada , which promotes outstanding young people in sport. At the age of 18 she was then appointed to the Canadian women's national team for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , where she was the youngest Canadian athlete to win the silver medal. As a result, she added two Olympic gold medals to her collection of medals, as well as five world championships and one runner-up world championship. She was twice voted Most Valuable Player of a World Cup.

In total, she completed 184 games in the Canadian national shirt, in which she scored 65 goals and 109 assists.

After graduating from the National Sport School, the Canadian began studying at Harvard University in 1998 . There she played for the university team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) until 2003 and won the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award in 2001 and 2003, which honors the best college player of the season. No other player has won this title twice in their career. During her college days, she scored in 106 of 107 games she played, including a streak of 80 consecutive games that set a valid NCAA record. In total, she scored 149 goals and prepared 170.

Between 2006 and 2011, she played for the Mississauga Eros / Chiefs and Toronto Eros in the National Women's Hockey League and Canadian Women's Hockey League , both semi-professional women's ice hockey leagues in Canada, before retiring.

Achievements and Awards

2001 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award 2001 Manitoba's Athlete of the Year 2003 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award 2005 NWHL Champions Cup win with the Toronto Eros

2006 Order of Manitoba 2008 Angela James Bowl 2008 CWHL Offensive Player of the Year 2009 CWHL First All-Star Team

International

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 2001 World Cup top scorer 2001 Best striker in the World Cup 2001 Most Valuable Player of the World Cup 2002 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games 2004 gold medal at the world championship 2004 top scorer of the world championship

2004 Best Assists in the World Championship 2004 Most Valuable Player of the World Cup 2004 World Championship All-Star Team 2005 silver medal at the world championship 2005 Best Assists in the World Championship (together with Caroline Ouellette ) 2006 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games 2007 gold medal at the world championship 2008 silver medal at the world championship 2009 silver medal at the world championship 2010 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

Club and college ice hockey

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	Harvard Crimson	AWCHA		28	37	51	88	34
1999/00	Harvard Crimson	AWCHA		23	31	31	62	18th
2000/01	Harvard Crimson	ECAC		30th	42	36	78	30th
2001/02	Hockey Canada	International		Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2002/03	Harvard Crimson	ECAC		32	47	65	112	14th
2003/04	Toronto Eros	NWHL		36	30th	31	61	16	2	1	2	3	2
2004/05	Toronto Eros	NWHL		29	22nd	33	55	18th	6th	1	7th	8th	0
2005/06	Hockey Canada	International		Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2006/07	Mississauga Eros	NWHL		21st	15th	19th	34	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Mississauga Chiefs	CWHL		25th	22nd	34	56	22nd	3	1	3	4th	0
2008/09	Mississauga Chiefs	CWHL		28	25th	30th	55	30th	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Hockey Canada	International		Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2010/11	Toronto Eros	CWHL		25th	14th	30th	44	12	4th	1	3	4th	4th
NCAA overall				113	157	183	340	96
NWHL total				86	67	83	150	48	8th	2	9	11	2
CWHL overall				78	61	94	155	64	7th	2	6th	8th	4th

International

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
1998	Canada	Olympia			6th	0	0	0	0	-3
1999	Canada	WM			4th	0	2	2	2	+5
2000	Canada	WM			5	1	5	6th	2	+10
2001	Canada	WM			5	8th	2	10	4th	+11
2002	Canada	Olympia			5	3	3	6th	8th	+2
2004	Canada	WM			5	3	8th	11	0	+8
2005	Canada	WM			5	1	6th	7th	4th	+6
2006	Canada	Olympia			5	1	6th	7th	4th	+6
2007	Canada	WM			5	3	2	5	4th	+3
2008	Canada	WM			5	4th	4th	8th	4th	+4
2009	Canada	WM			5	5	3	8th	0	+5
2010	Canada	Olympia			5	0	2	2	0	+7
Women overall					60	29	43	72	32	+64

family

Her mother Doreen Botterill represented Canada at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 and in Grenoble in 1968 in speed skating and - like her daughter many years later - was named Manitoba's Athlete of the Year in 1965. Her father, Cal Botterill, works as a renowned sports psychologist at the University of Winnipeg . Her brother Jason , a former ice hockey player, played 88 games in the National Hockey League between 1997 and 2004 and won three junior world titles.

Botterill is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Botterill  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Jennifer Botterill at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jennifer Botterill in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Jennifer Botterill at hockeycanada.ca
• Jennifer Botterill at womenshockeylegends.blogspot.de
• Jennifer Botterill at olympic.ca