Jennifer Botterill
Jennifer Lori Botterill, OM ( born May 1, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player. In her career, she was twice Olympic champion and five times world champion with the Canadian national team.
Career
Botterill attended in her youth, the National Sport School in Calgary, Canada, promoting the sporty outstanding young people. At the age of 18 she was then appointed to Nagano from Canadian Women's National Team for the 1998 Winter Olympics, where she won as the youngest Canadian athlete of the Games, the silver medal. As a result, she added her collection of medals, two Olympic gold medals added, and five world champions and a runner-up title. She was twice elected as the Most Valuable Player of the World Cup.
After graduating from the National Sport School, the Canadian began her studies in 1998 at Harvard University. There she played until 2003 for the University team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA) and won in 2001 and 2003 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award to which distinguishes the best college player of the season. No other player could win twice in her career this item. In her college days she scored in 106 of 107 games they played, including a series of 80 consecutive games, which represent a valid NCAA record. Overall, they scored 149 goals and 170 prepared before.
Between 2006 and 2011 she played for the Mississauga Chiefs of the Canadian Women's Hockey League, the female counterpart to the National Hockey League, before she ended her career.
Awards and achievements
Others
Her mother Doreen Botterill represented Canada at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck and 1968 Grenoble in speed skating and was - as well as her daughter - awarded in 1965 as Manitoba's athlete of the year. Her father Cal Botterill works as a renowned sports psychologist at the University of Winnipeg and her brother Jason Botterill, a former hockey player, played between 1997 and 2004 88 games in the National Hockey League and won three Junior World Champion title with the Canadian National Team, more than any other.
Botterill 's athletes ambassador of development organization Right to Play.