Melodie Daoust

Melodie Daoust
Born	January 7, 1992 (1992-01-07) (age 19) Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC, CAN
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight	150 lb (68 kg; 10 st 10 lb)
Position	Forward
Shoots	Right
Collegial AA CWHL CIS team	College Edouard-Montpetit Montreal Stars McGill Martlets
National team	Canada
Playing career	2007–present

Medal record
Women's ice hockey
Competitor for  Canada
IIHF U18 Womens Worlds
Gold	2010 United States	2010 Tournament
Women's 4 Nations Cup
Silver	2011 Sweden	Tournament

Melodie Daoust (born January 7, 1992) has competed for Hockey Canada in numerous international tournaments.

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 AA 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 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]

Career stats

Hockey Canada

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

^[8]

Awards and honors

• 2009-10 Ligue de hockey féminin collégial AA scoring champion^[9]

References

1. ^ http://lecourrierdusud.canoe.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=173776&id=224&classif=Nouvelles
2. ^ http://cwhl.stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=1425048
3. ^ http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/spotlight/item/?item_id=171610
4. ^ http://boxscorenews.com/five-mcgill-freshmen-to-receive-athletic-recruitment-scholarships-p21225-149.htm
5. ^ http://www.sportscardradio.com/index.php/product-previews-a-reviews/714-2010-upper-deck-ud-world-of-sports-checklist
6. ^ http://oilers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=532636
7. ^ http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/174901/la_id/1/ss_id/170713/
8. ^ http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php?ci_id=11737&la_id=1&ss_id=56236&player_id=10814
9. ^ http://www.sportetudiant-stats.com/collegial/hockey-f-AA/stats/0910/stats.php

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Name	Daoust, Melodie
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Date of birth	January 7, 1992
Place of birth	Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC, CA
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