Megan Bozek

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Megan Bozek
Date of birth March 27, 1991
place of birth Buffalo Grove , Illinois , USA
size 173 cm
Weight 80 kg
position defender
number # 9
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2005-2009 Stevenson High School
2009-2013 University of Minnesota
2014-2015 Toronto Furies
2015-2017 Buffalo Beauts
since 2018 Markham Thunder

Megan Bozek (* 27. March 1991 in Buffalo Grove , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who since January 2018 at the Markham Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League on the position of the defense plays. Bozek has been a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team since 2012 and is multiple world champion.

Career

Bozek spent her high school years at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire between 2005 and 2009 . During this period, the defender took part in the 2009 U18 World Junior Championship . There she won the gold medal. She moved from Stevenson High School to the University of Minnesota for the 2009-10 school year . In the following four years she played in parallel for the university team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With the team she won the national college championship of the NCAA at the end of her rookie game year . She followed up with other titles in 2012 and 2013. In addition, she was named the WCHA's best defensive player in 2013.

Bozek made her debut for the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2012 World Cup and won a silver medal, and at the 2013 World Cup she finally won the World Cup for the first time. After successfully completing her studies in spring 2013, the defensive player switched to the US ice hockey association USA Hockey to prepare with the team for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . There she won the silver medal with the US girls. She then moved to the Toronto Furies in the Canadian Women's Hockey League for the 2014/15 season , which she, however, left again after a season and hired by the Buffalo Beauts from the newly founded National Women's Hockey League . After the US-American had completed the 2015/16 season there and had lost the Boston Pride in the final of the Isobel Cup , she took part in the 2016 World Cup with the national team after a two-year break . As part of the world title fights, she celebrated her second World Cup gold medal.

This was followed by the personally most successful year of her career. In the 2016/17 game year , with the Beauts, she successfully took revenge for the final defeat of the previous year and thus won the Isobel Cup for the first time. She was also named the best defensive player in the league. At the 2017 World Cup , she won the third title. After two seasons with the Beauts, Bozek went back to the Olympic preparation with USA Hockey in the 2017/18 season before she and Alex Carpenter were the last two players to be removed from the provisional Olympic squad in January 2018. The American then moved to the Markham Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League in mid-January .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2010 WCHA Championship with the University of Minnesota
  • 2010 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of Minnesota
  • 2012 WCHA Championship with the University of Minnesota
  • 2012 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of Minnesota
  • 2013 WCHA championship with the University of Minnesota
  • 2013 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of Minnesota
  • 2013 WCHA Defensive Player of the Year
  • 2015 participation in the CWHL All-Star Game
  • 2016 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game
  • 2017 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game
  • 2017 Isobel Cup win with the Buffalo Beauts
  • 2017 NWHL Defensive Player of the Year

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2009/10 University of Minnesota WCHA 40 6th 18th 24 40 +12
2010/11 University of Minnesota WCHA 37 6th 17th 23 52 +33
2011/12 University of Minnesota WCHA 39 15th 27 42 34 +47
2012/13 University of Minnesota WCHA 41 20th 37 57 36 +61
2013/14 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2014/15 Toronto Furies CWHL 22nd 3 7th 10 10 −11 2 1 0 1 2 −3
2015/16 Buffalo Beauts NWHL 16 3 10 13 13 5 3 3 6th 6th
2016/17 Buffalo Beauts NWHL 16 5 5 10 8th −4 2 2 2 4th 0 +2
2017/18 Markham Thunder CWHL 10 4th 5 9 10 3 0 0 0 0
2018/19 Markham Thunder CWHL 26th 1 7th 8th 12 3 0 0 0 0
NCAA overall 157 47 99 146 162 +153
CWHL overall 58 8th 19th 27 32 −11 8th 1 0 1 2 −3
NWHL total 32 8th 15th 23 21st 7th 5 5 10 6th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2009 United States U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 5 1 5 6th 0 +10
2012 United States WM 2nd place, silver 5 2 3 5 0 +8
2013 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 2 3 2 +1
2014 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 1 4th 5 0 +5
2016 United States WM 1st place, gold 4th 1 3 4th 0 +4
2017 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 0 1 1 0 +2
2019 United States WM 1st place, gold 7th 2 2 4th 2 +8
Total juniors 5 1 5 6th 0 +10
Women overall 31 7th 15th 22nd 4th +28

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Murphy: Winter Olympics 2018: USA inexplicably goes for gold without snubbed Alex Carpenter. In: sportingnews.com. January 10, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bozek, Megan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo Grove , Illinois