Cassie Campbell
Cassie Campbell - Pascall ( born November 22, 1973 in Richmond Hill, Ontario ) is a Canadian sports journalist and former ice hockey player. She led the Canadian women's national team as captain in 2002 and 2006 to Olympic victory, they also won the Team Canada six times world champion and won at the 1998 Olympics and in the 2005 World Championship silver medal. Campbell originally played in defense, but trained in 1999 by the right- wingers.
Hockey career
Campbell began at the age of five years with the ice skating and soon began a playing hockey as a kid and young people mostly in boys teams.
In 1992, she was college player at the University of Guelph, for which it aground to 1996. In her rookie year, she was appointed to the First All- Star Team of the Association in the Second All- Star Team of the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and in 1995 and 1996, but the greatest success was winning the Canadian Hockey Championship 1995. Besides she played from 1993 to 1996 for the Mississauga Chiefs in the National Women's Hockey League.
During her college days she was first time in 1994 in the squad of the Canadian national team for the World Cup and world champion right away. Even with six of the eight nearest major international tournaments ( World Cup 1997 Olympics 1998 World Cup 1999, 2000, 2001 Olympics 2002 World Cup 2004 Olympics 2006), she won gold in each case, only at the 1998 Olympics and the 2005 World Cup had their give each of the United States defeated in the playoff team. From 1997 to 2001 tournament she was going assistant captain of the team and, from 2001 until their withdrawal captain of Team Canada.
It was first Mannschaftskapitänin the Beatrice Aeros in 1999 in the first season of the National Women's Hockey League and led them to the Canadian vice - championship. 2000 she moved to the Calgary Oval X -Treme, with this team, it was 2001 and 2003 Canadian champion. After the team had joined in 2005 as a founding team of the Western Women's Hockey League, it also won the first championship of the new league. After the 2005 season, Campbell ended her career as a professional player and played only a few times for the national team.
End of August 2006 Campbell finished her time as an active player. For the Canadian selection, she completed 157 games in which they could achieve exactly 100 points scorer ( 32 goals, 68 assists). So she stood at the time of farewell to rank six of eternal points leaderboard of the team.
After the Hockey
After the end of her active career, she started for the Canadian television station CBC and TSN to work as a hockey reporter, in October 2006, she was the first woman who was in Canada co-commentator an NHL game as part of Hockey Night. In sports channel TSN Campbell is chief reporter for Women's Hockey.
In addition, Campbell published in 2007 a non-fiction book about the Canadian ice hockey women's team named HEARTS, and in 2008 a motivational book called Some Things I've Learned.
Honors
In Brampton, Ontario, the city in Campbell grew up, since 2006, an urban multi-sports center with ice hockey, track and field and figure skating halls, as well as numerous outdoor sports fields will be built, which was named to Campbell's honor " Cassie Campbell Community Centre ".
In 2007, she was the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, as well as the first female hockey player ever, was added to the Canada 's Sports Hall of Fame. In 2012 she was awarded the Order of hockey in Canada.
Works
- With Lorna Schultz Nicholson: " HEARTS ", Key Porter Books, Toronto, Nov. 2007, ISBN 9781551683157
- "Some Things I've Learned: Lessons on Motivation, Passion, Excellence, and More", Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2008, ISBN 9781552639139