Mélodie Daoust
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Born | Valleyfield, QC, CAN |
January 7, 1992 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st 6 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shoots | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collegial AA CWHL CIS team |
College Edouard-Montpetit Montreal Stars McGill Martlets |
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National team | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2011–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mélodie Daoust (born January 7, 1992) is a women's ice hockey player from Canada. She has competed for Hockey Canada in numerous international tournaments, most recently the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Playing career
In 2008–09, she played with the Lac St. Louis Selects, and helped them accumulate a 62–0–2 record. Daoust was a Montreal Canadiens scholarship holder in 2010 from the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence. With the Collège Édouard-Montpetit Lynx, she helped lead them to a Quebec collegiate championship in 2009–10. In addition, she won the league scoring title with 24 goals, 31 assists for 55 total points. She accomplished this in only 13 games played.
In participating with the Canada women's national under-18 ice hockey team, Daoust registered 10 goals and 23 points in 13 games. At the 2010 IIHF world U-18 championships, she scored a goal and adding an assist in the gold medal game. The following day, she flew back to Montreal to help the Lynx capture the collegiate championship. She scored twice and added an assist in the championship game, including the game-winner in a 6–5 win versus Dragons du Collège Laflèche. She had helped the Lynx accumulate a won-loss record of 44 wins, compared to 3 losses.
CWHL
She was called up as an emergency fill-in with the Montreal Stars, and scored three points[1] in her CWHL debut on January 8 (versus the Burlington Barracudas).[2]
CIS
On February 10, 2011, Daoust signed a letter of intent to play for the McGill Martlets women's ice hockey program.[3] She refused offers from numerous Canadian and American universities, including Cornell, Dartmouth and a full scholarship from Boston University. Daoust was only one of five female student-athletes committed to McGill University in the fall of 2011 that were athletic scholarship recipients (announced by the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence).[4]
Hockey Canada
Daoust was part of Canada women's national under-18 ice hockey team to a gold medal at the 2010 IIHF World Women’s Under-18 Championship in Chicago. As a member of the gold medal winning squad, a hockey card of her was featured in the Upper Deck 2010 World of Sports card series.[5] In addition, she participated in the Canada Celebrates Event on June 30 in Edmonton, Alberta which recognized the Canadian Olympic and World hockey champions from the 2009–10 season .[6] On October 3, 2011, she was named to the Team Canada roster that will participate in the 2011 4 Nations Cup.[7] She scored her first international goal on February 17 at the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sotchi against Switzerland and they win the gold medal :)
Career stats
Hockey Canada
Named to 2014 Olympic roster for Canada.[8]
Event | GP | G | A | PTS | PIM |
2007 National U18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2008 National U18 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 2 |
2009 National U18 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Awards and honors
- 2009–10 Ligue de hockey féminin collégial AA scoring champion[10]
- CIS Rookie of the Year (Tissot Award) (2011–12) et second star team[11]
- MVP was named most valuable player at the 16th annual McGill University women's hockey awards gala, held in the Alumni Lounge at McConnell Arenahttp://thesuburban.com/news/articles/?id=article01802
- CIS Joueuse de l’année du Sport interuniversitaire canadien (SIC) en hockey féminin (trophée Brodrick) et première équipe étoile (2012–2013)http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1558120-melodie-daoust-headlines-cis-womens-hockey-awards-night-in-toronto
- CIS Nominée parmi les quatre Finalistes féminines au Prix BLG 2013 (Trophée Jim Thompson) au Canada, tout sport confondu. « Une nomination pour les prix BLG est l'un des honneurs les plus prestigieux auxquels peuvent aspirer nos 11 000 étudiantes et étudiants athlètes au cours de leur carrière universitaire, a dit Pierre Lafontaine, directeur général de SIC. Les finalistes de cette année sont tous des athlètes exceptionnels et sont également des leaders sur leur campus et dans leur communauté. Ils représentent sans contredit l'avenir de notre pays. »http://www.mcgillathletics.ca/news/2013/4/17/WHOCKEY_0417132133.aspx#.UW77PfreTGs.facebook
References
- ↑ http://lecourrierdusud.canoe.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=173776&id=224&classif=Nouvelles
- ↑ http://cwhl.stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=1425048
- ↑ http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/spotlight/item/?item_id=171610
- ↑ http://boxscorenews.com/five-mcgill-freshmen-to-receive-athletic-recruitment-scholarships-p21225-149.htm
- ↑ http://www.sportscardradio.com/index.php/product-previews-a-reviews/714-2010-upper-deck-ud-world-of-sports-checklist
- ↑ http://oilers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=532636
- ↑ http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/174901/la_id/1/ss_id/170713/
- ↑ http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/23/canada-womens-olympic-hockey-roster-hayley-wickenheiser/
- ↑ http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php?ci_id=11737&la_id=1&ss_id=56236&player_id=10814
- ↑ http://www.sportetudiant-stats.com/collegial/hockey-f-AA/stats/0910/stats.php
- ↑ http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/wice/2011-12/releases/20120307-awards
- Use mdy dates from January 2014
- Pages with broken file links
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Canadian women's ice hockey players
- French Quebecers
- Ice hockey people from Quebec
- Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Montreal Stars players
- McGill Martlets ice hockey players
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Olympic ice hockey players of Canada
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Sportspeople from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield