Laura Fortino

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Laura Fortino
Date of birth January 30, 1991
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size 164 cm
Weight 62 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2006-2009 Stoney Creek Sabers
2009-2013 Cornell University
2013-2014 Team Canada
since 2014 Brampton / Markham Thunder
2017-2018 Team Canada

Laura Michele Fortino (* the 30th January 1991 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who since 2014 for the Brampton / Markham Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League on the position of the defender plays. Fortino has been a member of the Canadian women's national team since 2011 and is both world and Olympic champion.

Career

Fortino started ice skating at the age of three and came to ice hockey through her two older brothers. In 2004 she took part with the boys team of the Hamilton Reps ( Bantam AA Boys ) in the regional championships of Ontario and took second place there. From 2006 she played with the Stoney Creek Sabers from the Provincial Women's Hockey League , the top women's ice hockey division in the province of Ontario , and finished third with the Sabers in 2007. At the national U18 women's championships in Kitchener in 2007 , she won the gold medal with the Ontario Red team. The following year Fortino won the OWHA Provincial Championship and the PWHL Championship with the Stoney Creek Sabers. Then she reached first place with Ontario Red at the national U18 championships in 2008 in Napanee.

Success at Cornell University

In 2009 she began studying nutritional science at Cornell University in the United States , which she graduated in 2013. In parallel, she played for Cornell Big Red , the university's ice hockey team, in the ECAC hockey . During her first season in 2009/10 she was the top goalscorer of all defenders of the NCAA and reached with her team the final game of the NCAA Frozen Four , which was lost after three extra time. She then received numerous personal awards, including becoming the first ever Big Red student to join the All-American All-Star team and one of the ten finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award .

In 2011 and 2012 she reached the NCAA Frozen Four with Cornell and received numerous other awards. In the 2013/14 season, she took part with the Canadian national team in the centralized Olympic preparation, which included games in the Alberta Midget Hockey League .

Semi-professional ice hockey in the CWHL

Laura Fortino in the jersey of the Brampton Thunder (2015)

Fortino was selected first in the 2014 CWHL Draft by the Brampton Thunder and participated in the first CWHL All-Star Game in 2015. At the end of the 2015/16 season she was named Defender of the Year for the CWHL.

With the Markham Thunder she won the championship trophy of the Canadian Women's Hockey League in the form of the Clarkson Cup at the end of the 2017/18 season .

International

On an international level, Fortino took part in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2008 , where she won silver with the team, and the U18 World Junior Championship in 2009 . There she also won silver. The striker was first appointed to the Canadian women's national team in 2010. She won the gold medal at the 2012 World Cup , and silver at the 2015 , 2016 and 2017 World Cups . In addition, she was appointed to the all-star team of the tournament in the 2012 world championships .

The attacker celebrated winning the gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . Four years later, at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , the Canadian team achieved silver and Fortino was named to the All-Star Team of the Olympic tournament.

Achievements and Awards

Laura Fortino in the national jersey (2017)

NCAA

  • 2010 First Team All-American, First Team All-ECAC Hockey
  • 2010 ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team
  • 2010 NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament Team
  • 2011 First Team All-American, First Team All-ECAC Hockey
  • 2012 First Team All-American, First Team All-ECAC Hockey

CWHL

  • 2015 CWHL All-Star Team
  • 2016 CWHL All-Star Team
  • 2016 CWHL Defender of the Year
  • 2017 CWHL All-Star Team
  • 2018 Clarkson Cup win with the Markham Thunder

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2006/07 Stoney Creek Sabers PWHL 32 7th 22nd 29 18th 5 1 2 3 0
2007/08 Stoney Creek Sabers PWHL 28 7th 23 30th 8th 7th 1 5 6th 4th
2008/09 Stoney Creek Sabers PWHL 29 7th 17th 24 14th 8th 4th 4th 8th 4th
2009/10 Cornell University ECAC 33 13 21st 34 2 +24
2010/11 Cornell University ECAC 33 9 31 40 20th +43
2011/12 Cornell University ECAC 33 8th 29 37 24 +45
2012/13 Cornell University ECAC 34 5 16 21st 22nd +28
2013/14 Team Canada AMHL 16 0 3 3 2
2014/15 Brampton Thunder CWHL 24 5 10 15th 8th −19
2015/16 Brampton Thunder CWHL 24 8th 20th 28 10 +13 2 0 0 0 0 −1
2016/17 Brampton Thunder CWHL 20th 6th 13 19th 34 +4 2 0 0 0 2 −2
2017/18 Team Canada AMHL 13 1 7th 8th 2
2017/18 Markham Thunder CWHL 2 0 1 1 0 +2 3 0 1 1 0 +2
2018/19 Markham Thunder CWHL 26th 5 13 18th 4th +5 1 0 0 0 0 0
PWHL total 89 21st 62 83 40 20th 6th 11 17th 8th
NCAA overall 133 35 98 133 68 +142
CWHL overall 96 24 57 81 56 +5 8th 0 1 1 2 −1

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2008 Canada U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 4th 1 4th 5 0 +8
2009 Canada U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 5 0 4th 4th 0 +10
2012 Canada WM 1st place, gold 5 2 2 4th 6th +9
2013 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 5 0 2 2 0 +6
2014 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 5 0 1 1 0 +5
2015 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 5 1 0 1 0 +2
2016 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 5 1 2 3 2 +2
2017 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 5 0 1 1 4th +4
2018 Canada Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 0 2 2 0 +3
2019 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 5 0 4th 4th 0 +5
Total juniors 9 1 8th 9 0 +18
Women overall 35 4th 10 14th 12 +31

( 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 : Laura Fortino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Laura Fortino: Laura Fortino - 2012-13 Women's Ice Hockey - Cornell University. In: cornellbigred.com. Accessed April 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Olympian Fortino goes 1st overall in CWHL draft. In: sportsnet.ca. August 19, 2014, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Olympic.ca: Team Canada, Laura Fortino
personal data
SURNAME Fortino, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fortino, Laura Michele (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario , Canada