Nancy Drolet

Nancy Drolet
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Born	August 2, 1973 (1973-08-02) (age 38) Drummondville, QC, CAN
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	139 lb (63 kg; 9 st 13 lb)
Position	Forward
Shot	Right
National team	Canada
Playing career	1992–2000

Nancy Drolet (born August 2, 1973 in Drummondville, Quebec) is a Canadian ice hockey player.^[1] She is the daughter of Mr. Denis Drolet and Mrs. Viviane Dubé. She was named Sport Federation Canada Junior Athlete of the Year in 1992.

Playing career

Drolet was also an accomplished softball player, and was a member of the Canadian National Softball team in 1990 and 1991.^[2] Drolet played for Team Quebec at the 1991 Canada Winter Games and was also a member of the Vancouver Griffins.

She won a silver medal at the Nagano Olympic Games in Japan and played for her country in six world championships. She twice scored goals in overtime to help Canada to wins in the 1997 and 2000 world championships. In doing so, became the first person in the history of the IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championships to score two gold medal clinching goals in overtime. She accomplished the feats on April 6, 1997 and April 9, 2000.^[3] During the 1999-2000 season, Nancy Drolet played for the Sainte-Julie Pantheres and scored 29 goals and added 17 assists.^[4] She played also for Vancouver Griffins (2001–02 and 2002–03).

Personal life

In 2002, she came out as a lesbian^[5] In 2009, she married her long-time partner Nathalie Allaire in Quebec.

References

1. ^ http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/002026-227-e.html
2. ^ Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4, p.118, Bob Ferguson, Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd., Markham, ON and Allston, MA, ISBN 1-55041-855-6
3. ^ IIHF Top 100 Hockey Stories of All Time, p.110, Szymon Szenberg and Andrew Podnieks, 2008, Fenn Publishing Company Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55168-358-4
4. ^ http://www.canoe.ca/HockeyNWHL/pre_stj.html
5. ^ http://www.outsports.com/outathletes/

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Name	Drolet, Nancy
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Date of birth	August 2, 1973
Place of birth	Drummondville, QC, CAN
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