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Canada's National Women's Under-18 Team Roster and Coaches Announced for 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship

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November 23, 2011
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CALGARY, Alta. – Hockey Canada announced Thursday the 22 players who have been chosen to represent Canada at the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship, taking place from Dec. to Jan. in Prerov and Zlin, Czech Republic.

Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team includes two goaltenders, seven defencemen and 13 forwards. Defenceman Erin Ambrose (Keswick, Ont./Toronto, PWHL) returns to the roster after claiming a silver medal at the 2011 IIHF World Women’s Under-18 Championship in Stockholm, Sweden, and winning Canada’s first-ever gold medal at the 2010 IIHF World Women’s Under-18 Championship in Chicago, Ill.

Five other players also return to Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team after claiming silver at last year’s world championship, including Meghan Dufault (Winnipeg, Man./Balmoral Hall, JWHL), Rebecca Kohler (St. Thomas, Ont./Bluewater, PWHL), Cayley Mercer (Exeter, Ont./Bluewater, PWHL), Cydney Roesler (Stittsville, Ont./Ottawa, PWHL) and Laura Stacey (Kleinburg, Ont./Toronto, PWHL).

Eighteen players were also members of Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team for a three-game series against the U.S. Women’s Under-18 Team in August in Rockland, Ont., falling 3-2 in the first game but coming back to win 3-2 and 6-4 in the second and third games.

Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team, broken down by province:

Alberta – two (Emerance Maschmeyer*, Erika Sowchuk*)
British Columbia - one (Jordan Krause*)
Manitoba - four (Ashleigh Brykaliuk*, Meghan Dufault*, Halli Krzyzaniak*, Taylor Woods*)
Nova Scotia - one (Alexis Crossley*)
Ontario - nine (Erin Ambrose*, Kristyn Capizzano, Elaine Chuli,* Nicole Connery*, Rebecca Kohler*, Cayley Mercer*, Morgan Richardson*, Cydney Roesler*, Laura Stacey*)
Prince Edward Island – one (Shannon MacAulay*)
Quebec – three (Catherine Dubois, Abbey Frazer, Sarah Lefort)Saskatchewan – one (Emily Clark*)
*Played for Canada in a three-game series against the United States in August.

Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team roster also includes:

  • Two members of the Alberta team that won the gold medal at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax, N.S., in February (Maschmeyer, Sowchuk).
  • One member of the Notre Dame Hounds, who won the gold medal at the 2011 Esso Cup, Canada’s National Female Midget Championship, in St. Albert, Alta., in April (Woods).
  • Two players who participated in the 2011 IIHF High Performance Women’s Camp in Bratislava, Slovakia, in July (Capizzano, Krzyzaniak).

“The players chosen for Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team have proven themselves to be strong and skilled at past Hockey Canada championships and events, as well as with their club and school teams,” said Kalli Quinn, director of female national teams for Hockey Canada. “We congratulate these young athletes on making it to the international stage.”

“We’re extremely excited about the talented team that will represent Canada at the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship,” added head coach Pierre Alain. “These players bring great chemistry to the ice and will work hard to bring home gold from the Czech Republic to help start the new year off right.”

Alain (Mirabel, Que./St-Jérôme, Collégial AA) will be joined behind Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team bench by assistant coaches Jim Fetter (Waterloo, Ont./St. Cloud State University, WCHA) and Carla MacLeod (Calgary, Alta./Mount Royal University, ACAC), a two-time Olympic gold medallist with Canada’s National Women’s Team.

Canada plays its first game at the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship against Switerzland at 1 p.m. local time/7 a.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 31 in Prerov, and will also take on Germany and Finland in the preliminary round. The gold medal game takes place at 7 p.m. local time/1 p.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 7 in Zlin.

Kristen Lipscombe, Hockey Canada’s coordinator of communications, will be on site in the Czech Republic for the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship. Please contact her for any interview requests at (403) 826-4819 or [email protected].

Follow Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team at www.twitter.com/HC_TeamCanada, become a fan of Hockey Canada on Facebook for updates from the Czech Republic at www.facebook.com/HockeyCanada, and for more information, please visit www.HockeyCanada.ca.

For more information:

Esther Madziya
Manager, Communications
Hockey Canada

(403) 284-6484 

[email protected] 

Spencer Sharkey
Manager, Communications
Hockey Canada

(403) 777-4567

[email protected]

Jeremy Knight
Manager, Corporate Communications
Hockey Canada

(647) 251-9738

[email protected]

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