Sarah Vaillancourt

Sarah Marie Vaillancourt (born May 8, 1985 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player.
==Playing career==
Sarah Vaillancourt was the captain of Canada’s Under 22 team at the 2007 Air Canada Cup. In 2003, she was the captain of Team Québec at the Canada Winter Games that won the Silver Medal. Canadian Gold 2010, Andrew Podnieks, p. 170, Fenn Publishing, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55168-384-3 One of her teammates was future Olympian Catherine Ward. She graduated from high school as a tri-varsity captain and athlete from Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut as a member of the class of 2004.
===Harvard Crimson===
She was a star for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program and won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2008. Her freshman year was in 2004-05, and she finished fifth in the nation, and first among freshmen, in scoring with 2.31 points per game.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/sioncampus/08/29/unheralded.athletes/1.html
===Hockey Canada===
In 2005, she made the Canadian national women's hockey team, where she would go on to play at the 2005 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships in Sweden. In her first game ever, she led Canada with 6 points in an 13-0 win over the Kazakhstan women's national ice hockey team. This tied a record for most points in a game on the Canadian national team. She would finish the tournament with 8 points. On February 20, 2006, Vaillancourt, as the second youngest member of the team, won a team gold medal in Turin with the Canadian Women's Hockey team beating Sweden in the final game and outscoring their opponents 46 to 2.
===Montreal Stars===
In the championship game of the 2011 Clarkson Cup, Vaillancourt scored a goal in the third period.http://cwhl.stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=1560528 By winning the 2011 Clarkson Cup, Vaillancourt became an unofficial member of the Triple Gold Club (the accomplishment by women is not yet officially recognized by the IIHF), as she became one of only four women to win the Clarkson Cup, a gold medal in Winter Olympics, and a gold medal at the IIHF World Women's Championships. The other women include Caroline Ouellette, Jenny Potter and Kim St. Pierre.
==Career stats==
===Hockey Canada===
Event 	Games Played	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM
2005 Women's World Championships	5 	3 	5 	8 	2
2006 Olympics 	5 	2 	4 	6 	2
2007 Women's World Championships	5 	2 	4 	6 	4
2008 Women's World Championships	5 	4 	2 	6 	8
2009 Women's World Championships	5 	3 	4 	7 	8
2010 Olympics 	5 	3 	5 	8 	6
Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.22, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6
==Awards and honors==
*Ivy League and Eastern Collegiate Athletics Conference [ECAC] Rookie of the Year for the 2004/2005 seasonhttp://web.archive.org/web/20100514012954/http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-hockey/athletes/sarah-vaillancourt_ath1012646jp.html 
*Top 10 Finalist for 2007 Patty Kazmaier Award http://www.wcha.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/030507aac.html 
*First Team All-Ivy League, 2007-08, Harvard (Junior) , Unanimous selection
*Ivy League Player of the Year 2007-08, Harvard (Junior) , Unanimous selectionhttp://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6431
*2009 First Team All-Ivy League
* Sarah Vaillancourt, 2009 First Team All-ECAC 
*2009 ECAC Player of the Year 
==References==
Category:Patty Kazmaier Award winners
Category:Female ice hockey players
Category:Canadian women's ice hockey players
Category:Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey players
Category:Patty Kazmaier Award winners
Category:2006 Olympian
Category:2010 Olympian
Category:Born in 1985
Category:Montreal Stars players
Category:Canadian ice hockey players
Category:Clarkson Cup champions