Hilary Knight (ice hockey)

Hilary Atwood Knight ( born July 12, 1989 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American ice hockey player who has won numerous medals with the U.S. national team at the World Championships. Since 2012 she plays for the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League.

  • 2.1 Records
  • 2.2 International
  • 3.1 National Competitions
  • 3.2 International

Career

Hilary grew up in a skier's household, her parents could not ice skating. Her cousin Chip Knight was represented three times as a skier at the Winter Olympics. At the age of two years, Hilary Knight was the first time on skis before her mother had the idea that they should also learn to skate. As Hilary was five years old, her family moved from California to Chicago, where she began to play ice hockey. Her three younger brothers also learned this sport and Hilary always had the desire to be " better than my younger brothers."

As a student, she played for Choate Rosemary Hall and the U19 team the Connecticut Polar Bears. After graduating from high school, she had numerous offers from colleges that she wanted to record. Knight chose the University of Wisconsin, since there with Mark Johnson worked an experienced hockey coach who was parallel national coach and to prepare them in view of the Olympic Winter Games 2010.

Success in the NCAA

Hilary Knight played four years of college hockey in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association ( WCHA ), a league of the NCAA. She reached in all four years with the Wisconsin Badgers, the ice hockey team of the University, the final tournament of the NCAA, the so-called Frozen Four. While the Badgers in 2008 and 2012, lost the final at the NCAA Championships, they won the final game of the Frozen Four in 2009 and 2011, reaching the College Cup in those two years.

During the 2009/10 season Hilary Knight interrupted their studies to prepare themselves with the national team and coach Mark Johnson on the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

CWHL

After she had finished her studies in 2012, she was hired by the Boston Blades of the CWHL and won with her new team, the 2013 Clarkson Cup. Thus, Knight has won three major trophies in the Women Hockey. For the services shown in the course of the season she was also named most valuable player.

Internationally

Hilary Knight began early in her career, to represent the United States internationally. She was a member of the junior national teams of the United States. In 2006, she debuted at the 4 Nations Cup for the women's team. Their first World Cup in 2007 and she completed was the youngest player of the national team, with whom she won the silver medal. As a result, she ran (until 2014 ) to five world championships, winning three gold and another silver medal. In its first Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 they scored a goal and seven assists, and thus helped their team to win the silver medal. At the World Championships in 2011, which were held in Switzerland, she was with five goals and nine assists top-scorer of the tournament and was duly elected to the All- Star team.

Awards and achievements

  • 2008 NCAA runner-up of the Wisconsin Badgers
  • 2008 All- WCHA Rookie Team
  • 2009 College Champion (NCAA ) with the Wisconsin Badgers
  • 2009 Nominated for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award
  • 2009 Players of the Year of the WCHA
  • 2009 Frozen Four All- Tournament Team
  • 2011 college champion with the Wisconsin Badgers
  • 2011 Nominated for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award
  • 2011 First Team All-America
  • 2012 NCAA runner-up of the Wisconsin Badgers
  • 2013 most valuable player of the CWHL
  • 2013 Clarkson Cup win with the Boston Blades

Records

Hilary Knight holds the following records of the Wisconsin Badgers: Goals total (143 ), shots on goal ( 986 ), points scorer (262 ), game winning Goals ( 30 ), power -play goals (37 ), shorthanded goals ( 8), Plus / minus ( 167 ) and hat tricks (9).

Internationally

  • 2007 Silver medal at the World Championships
  • 2008 Gold medal at the World Championships
  • 2009 Gold medal at the World Championships
  • 2010 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2011 Gold Medal at the World Championships
  • 2011 All- Star Team of the World Cup
  • 2012 Silver medal at the World Championships
  • 2013 Gold Medal at the World Championships
  • 2014 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2014 All- Star team for the Olympic Winter Games

Career Stats

National Competitions

Internationally

( 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 )

Hanover (New Hampshire) University of Wisconsin System Mark Johnson (ice hockey) 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship Plus/Minus 2009 IIHF Women's World Championship Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament Point (ice hockey)
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