Colleen Sostorics

Colleen Sostorics ( born December 17, 1979 in Kennedy, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who plays for the Calgary Oval X -Treme in the Western Women's Hockey League since 1999. With the Canadian national team, she won three gold medals at the Winter Olympics as well as six medals at World Championships.

  • 2.1 National
  • 2.2 International
  • 3.1 International
  • 3.2 National

Career

Hockey

Colleen Sostorics began in her hometown of Kennedy with ice hockey and played in the local boys' team until the age of 17 years. In the season of 1996, she was appointed captain of her team, which played at this time on the Bantam level. The Canada Winter Games in 1995 Sostorics played for the team Saskatchewan. Two years later she also took part in the Canadian National U18 Championships. After her junior time she got the offer to study at the University of Calgary and for its hockey team, to play Calgary Dinos in the CIAU. Sostorics took on a business degree in Calgary and were each appointed at the end of the season 1997/98 and 1998/ 99 in the All-Star team of the College Football CIAU.

Calgary Oval X -Treme

From the 1999/2000 season she played in parallel for the semi- professional ice hockey team Calgary Oval X -Treme at the National Women's Hockey League and later Western Women's Hockey League ( WWHL ). In addition, the team represented the province of Alberta from 1998 to the National Canadian Women's Championship, the Esso Women's Nationals Championships. This Oval X -Treme won the 1998 championship and finished second in 1999 and 2000 to third place.

With Calgary Oval X -Treme Sosotorics 2001, 2003 and 2007 again reached the final of the Canadian championship and won this. In addition, the team 's series Masters of WWHL.

Internationally

In 1999, Sostorics her debut in the Canadian U22 national team and participated with this at the Christmas Cup 1999, which ended the national team as the winner. In the following two years she participated with the U22 team at the U22 4 Nations Cup and won it. in the 2000 /01 season she was also captain of the U22 selection. Due to their performance in U22 team she was appointed to the Canadian women's national team in 2001 and participated with this at the World Cup 2001. For winning the gold medal Canadians Sostorics contributed two goals and an assist.

2002 belonged Sostorics for Team Canada that won the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. 2006 and 2010 could repeat this success the selection team. In addition, she won with Team Canada another gold and silver medals at the World Championships.

Other Sports

In her youth Sostorics played alongside Hockey still football and softball. In 1997 she won the regional championships her age group in all three sports. She was also honored in 1994 and 1995 as most valuable player in the regional softball championship. Since her college days she plays in the summer and won the 2003 Rugby with Team Alberta, the Canadian national rugby championship.

Others

After winning the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games 2002, a street was named after Sostorics in her hometown Kennedy - Colleen Sostorics Avenue. In 2004 she finished her studies at the University of Calgary with a Bachelor in Economics.

Awards and achievements

National

  • All- Star team CIAU in 1998 and 1999
  • Winning the Esso Women's Nationals 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2007 with Team Alberta (Calgary Oval X -Treme )
  • Master of WWHL 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 with the Calgary Oval X -Treme
  • Master of NWHL 2003 and 2004 with the Calgary Oval X -Treme
  • Canadian Rugby Champions 2003 Team Alberta

Internationally

  • 2001 Gold Medal at the World Championships
  • 2002 Gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2004 Gold Medal at the World Championships
  • 2005 Silver medal at the World Championships
  • 2006 Gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2007 Gold medal at the World Championships
  • 2008 Silver medal at the World Championships
  • 2009 Silver medal at the World Championships
  • 2010 Gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Statistics

Internationally

Statistics Sources: Media Guide Olympics 2006; Media Guide Olympics 2010

National

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

Canada women's national ice hockey team 2001 IIHF Women's World Championship 2004 IIHF Women's World Championship 2005 IIHF Women's World Championship 2009 IIHF Women's World Championship Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament Point (ice hockey) Plus/Minus
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