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Charline Labonté 
Born October 15, 1982
Greenfield Park, QC, CANHeight 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Weight 173 lb (78 kg; 12 st 5 lb) Position Goaltender Catches Left CIS team McGill Martlets National team 
CanadaPlaying career 2000–present Medal record Women's ice hockey Competitor for CanadaOlympic games Gold 2006 Torino Tournament Gold 2010 Vancouver Tournament IIHF World Women's Championships Silver 2005 Sweden Tournament Gold 2007 Canada Tournament Silver 2008 China Tournament Silver 2009 Finland Tournament Silver 2011 Switzerland Tournament Air Canada Cup (women's) Gold 2003 Germany 2003 Tournament Women's 4 Nations Cup Silver 2011 Sweden Tournament Charline Labonté (born October 15, 1982, in Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada) is a women's ice hockey player. Labonté now lives in Montreal, and is studying Physical Education at McGill University.
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Playing career
At the 1999 Canada Winter Games in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Labonte was part of the silver medal winning team.[1]
Hockey Canada
Labonté was one of two goaltenders playing for the Canadian women's hockey team in the 2006 Turin olympics. In 2010, she served as the third goaltender for the gold medal winning Canadian women's team.[2] Prior to this she played for the Montreal Axion and Laval Le Mistral, Teams of the National Women's Hockey League.[3]
QMJHL
She was one of the few women to play Major Junior hockey, appearing in 28 games with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League between 1999 and 2000.[4] She competed for Team Quebec at the 1999 Canada Winter Games.[5] She was a member of the Montreal Axion in 2004-05, and one of her teammates was fellow Olympian Gina Kingsbury.
McGill Martlets
On December 31, 2010, Labonte required only 13 saves to post her 59th career shutout with McGill as the Martlets defeated the nationally ranked fifth overall Alberta Pandas by a 3-0 mark in the final game of the Bisons Holiday Classic tournament at Max Bell Arena. In the game, the Martlets held a 31-13 edge in shots. Gillian Ferrari was credited with the game-winner on the power-play at 5:49 of the first period. Jasmine Sheehan, a fifth-year defender scored the second goal of the game. Logan Murray, a freshman from Calgary, scored the last goal of the contest.[6] In an October 29, 2011 contest against the Montreal Carabins, Ariane Barker scored on Labonte with 71 seconds left in a 3-2 win versus McGill. Labonte took the loss for the Martlets, giving her a 69-2 overall record in her CIS career.[7] It marked the Martlets first loss to a Quebec conference opponent for the first time in 108 games.[8]
Awards and honors
- Top Goaltender, 2006 Esso Women's National Hockey Championship Pool A: Charline Labonte [9]
References
- ^ http://www.goodasgoldopen.com/team_labonte_charline.html#pagetop
- ^ Podnieks, Andrew. Canada's Olympic Hockey History 1920–2010. Toronto: Fenn Publishing. p. 242. ISBN 1-55168-323-7.
- ^ "NWHL Championship eludes Thunder". Brampton Thunder Hockey Club. 2006-04-15. http://www.bramptonthunder.com/news.php?k=92. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
- ^ "Charline Labonte player statistics". The Internet Hockey Database. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=49870. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
- ^ Canadian Gold 2010, Andrew Podnieks, p. 170, Fenn Publishing, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55168-384-3.
- ^ http://www.mcgill.ca/athletics/newsroom/events/item/?item_id=164843
- ^ http://www.montrealgazette.com/McGill+hockey+Martlets+game+streak+comes/5628886/story.html
- ^ http://www.mcgill.ca/athletics/newsroom/spotlight/item/?item_id=211663
- ^ "2006 Esso Women’s National Championship Award Winners Announced". Hockey Canada. March 20, 2006. http://www.ohf.on.ca/web_pages/headlines_archives.php?ID=48. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
External links
- Player profile on hockey Canada
- Charline Labonté: McGill's golden goalie in McGill reporter, February 21, 2008.
- (French) Charline Labonté, le dernier rempart in Cyberpresse, March 10, 2011.
Preceded by
Noora Räty (2007, 2008)IIHF World Women's Championships Best Goalie
2009Succeeded by
TBD (2011)Categories:- 1982 births
- Acadie-Bathurst Titan alumni
- Canadian women's ice hockey players
- Female ice hockey goaltenders
- Ice hockey people from Quebec
- Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- McGill Martlets ice hockey players
- Montreal Axion players
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Olympic ice hockey players of Canada
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
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