Summer west

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CanadaCanada  Summer west Ice hockey player
Summer west
Date of birth April 24, 1978
place of birth Houston , Texas , USA
size 173 cm
Weight 73 kg
position striker
number # 44
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1996-2006 Beatrice / North York Eros
2007-2010 Mississauga Chiefs
2010 Toronto Eros
2010–2012 Burlington Barracudas

Sommer Violet West (born April 24, 1978 in Houston , Texas , USA ) is a former Canadian ice hockey and softball player who was last under contract as the head coach of the Toronto Furies in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) between 2012 and 2017 . Her father Steve was also a hockey player. The greatest success of her career was participating in the softball tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney .

Career

Sommer West was born in Houston after her father Steve was playing for the Houston Eros in the World Hockey Association at the time, and moved her family to the Kirby area of the Durham area as a toddler .

As a hockey player

When she was four years old, she began in neighboring Orono with the figure skating . At the age of five she switched to ice hockey and participated in the Orono Minor Hockey Program . Her father was one of her trainers during this time. West attended school in Kirby before her family moved to Bowmanville . Up to the age of twelve she only played ice hockey in boys 'teams, as there were no girls' teams.

But at the age of 13, she switched to women's ice hockey , as she was no longer allowed to play in the boys' area. In the Bantam age group she played in Newcastle and in the Midget age group in Kingston . From 1992 she played for the Junior Eros , the youth organization of the North York Eros , and won the Canadian U18 National Championship with them in 1996. In 1999 she was appointed to the Canadian U22 women’s national team and took part in the 3 Nations Cup in 1998 and 1999 with the women’s national team. She also traveled to Sweden with the national team in 2001 to play several games against the Swedish national team and took part in the TSN Challenge against the USA. She made a total of twelve international matches for Canada.

At the age of eighteen, West began playing for the Beatrice Eros in the National Women's Hockey League and won the NWHL Champions Cup with them in 2000 , 2004 and 2005 . In the 2005 play-offs she was the top goalscorer and top scorer of the NWHL, as well as in the regular season of the 2005/06 season . In 2005 she was honored as the most valuable player for the achievements shown , in 2006 as the best offensive player in the NWHL.

Cherie Piper , Jennifer Botterill and Sommer West (from left to right) in the Mississauga Chiefs jersey (March 2008)

From 2004 West was team captain of the Eros. With the Toronto Eros (later Mississauga Chiefs) she took as a representative of the province of Ontario regularly to the Esso Women's Nationals , the Canadian Amateur Women's Championship, and won the competition in 2000, 2004, 2005 and of 2008.

In 2006 the Eros team moved to Mississauga and was accepted into the newly formed Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) after the NWHL was dissolved in 2007 . It came to the fusion of the Eros with the Oakville Ice , whereby the team was registered as Mississauga Chiefs . Summer West played until the middle of the 2010/11 season for the Chiefs and Eros, respectively, before moving to the Burlington Barracudas . This they selected again in the CWHL Draft 2011 , so that they completed their last season with the Barracudas in the CWHL.

After her career ended, West became the coach of the newly founded Toronto Furies in 2012 and won the CWHL championship, the Clarkson Cup , with them in 2014 . She herself was named Trainer of the Year for this success. In 2017, she resigned from her post to have more time for her then seven-month-old daughter.

As a softball player

West began playing baseball as a child, playing praise ball before switching to fastball at the age of 13. She was active for the Oshawa Double D’s before playing for the Port Perry Angels for eight years .

In softball, she played on the position of the short stop and took part in both 1997 and 1998 in the Canadian National Championships. At the Pan American Games in 1999 she won the silver medal with the Canadian national team. At the second Olympic softball tournament in Sydney in 2000 , she was part of the Canadian national team and played in the position of first baseman .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2000 NWHL champion with the Beatrice Eros
  • 2000 Canadian amateur champion with the Ontario team
  • 2001 NWHL champion with the Beatrice Eros
  • 2002 NWHL Champion with the Beatrice Eros
  • 2004 Canadian amateur champion with the Ontario team
  • 2005 NWHL Champion with the Beatrice Eros
  • 2005 Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the NWHL
  • 2005 top scorer and top scorer in the NWHL play-offs
  • 2005 Canadian amateur champion with the Ontario team
  • 2006 top scorer and top scorer in the NWHL
  • 2008 Canadian Amateur Champion with the Mississauga Chiefs
  • 2008 inducted into the Clarington Sports Hall of Fame
  • 2014 Clarkson Cup won with the Toronto Furies ( as head coach )
  • 2014 CWHL Trainer of the Year

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 )

NWHL and CWHL

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998/99 Beatrice Eros NWHL 33 11 22nd 33 38
1999/00 Beatrice Eros NWHL 31 21st 26th 47 42
2000/01 Beatrice Eros NWHL 31 23 18th 41 47 6th 2 0 2 4th
2001/02 Beatrice Eros NWHL 19th 11 13 24 47 5 4th 3 7th 10
2002/03 Beatrice Eros NWHL 27 21st 23 44 59
2003/04 Toronto Eros NWHL 29 19th 26th 45 34
2004/05 Toronto Eros NWHL 35 23 22nd 45 64 6th 7th 6th 13 2
2005/06 Toronto Eros NWHL 36 28 27 55 68
2006/07 Mississauga Eros NWHL
2007/08 Mississauga Chiefs CWHL 30th 23 25th 48 46 5 4th 10 14th 14th
2008/09 Mississauga Chiefs CWHL 16 22nd 38
2009/10 Mississauga Chiefs CWHL 29 11 24 35 68
2010/11 Toronto Eros CWHL 4th 2 2 4th 2
2010/11 Burlington Barracudas CWHL 12 2 5 7th 10
2011/12 Burlington Barracudas CWHL 23 6th 11 17th 34

International

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Canada 3 Nations Cup 1st place 2 0 0 0 0
1999 Canada 3 Nations Cup 1st place 5 1 0 1 0

Web links

Commons : Summer West  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Sue Weigand: Sommer West inducted into sports hall of fame. In: sweigand.wordpress.com. November 3, 2011, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b 2007 Esso Women's Nationals - PLAYER PROFILE - Summer West ( Memento from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Summer West steps down from Furies bench. August 18, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ Brian McNair: Former Olympian Summer West a Pan Am Games torchbearer in Clarington. In: mississauga.com. June 4, 2015, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 2009-2010 Mississauga Aero-Chiefs Roster - # 44 Summer West ( Memento from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME West, summer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES West, summer Violet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, softball player, ice hockey coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas , USA