An Olympic medalist on the Canadian Women’s Hockey Team, Winnipeg’s Jennifer Botterill has played on Canadian teams in four world championships as well as starring on the Harvard University women’s hockey team for four years. In 2001, she was named Manitoba’s female athlete of the year, tournament MVP in the hockey world championships and the Patty Kazmaier Award winner as the most valuable player in U.S. women’s college hockey. A silver medal winner at her first Olympics at Nagano in 1998 and a core player on the gold medal team at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, Botterill made her third Olympic appearance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and, with two assists in the final game, helped lead the Canadian women’s team to yet another gold medal.
