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
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
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International
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Career statistics
Club and college ice hockey
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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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 | +/- | |
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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
- 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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Botterill, Jennifer |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Botterill, Jennifer Lori; Botterill, Jen |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Winnipeg , Manitoba, Canada |