Cherie Piper

Cherie Piper (born June 29, 1981) is a Canadian former ice hockey player residing in Markham, Ontario. She was a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and played for the Brampton Thunder of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). Piper has won three Olympic gold medals with the Canadian national team in 2002, 2006 and 2010, as well as one world championship title in 2004.

In 1999, she competed for Ontario in the Canada Winter Games. During the 2000–01 NWHL season, Cherie Piper played with the Beatrice Aeros and finished seventh in league scoring with 37 points.^[1]

She played four seasons at Dartmouth College between 2002 and 2007, scoring 60 goals and 165 assists in 99 games for the Big Green.^[2] She missed the end of the 2003–04 season to play with the Canadian national team at the 2004 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships where she won a gold medal.^[3] Piper was named a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2005. She led Dartmouth in scoring that season with 60 points.^[2]

At Hockey Canada's 2008 National Championships, she was the double overtime hero as the Mississauga Chiefs won 3-2 over the Brampton Thunder.^[4] She also scored the 2-2 equalizer in the third period.

She competed for Canada's Under 22 team from 1999 to 2001.^[5]

Piper was a member of the Under-22 team in 2002 when she was named to the Olympic team for 2002 Salt Lake City Games ahead of veteran Nancy Drolet as part of a move to shake up a Canadian team that had lost eight consecutive games to the United States. It was a decision that shocked other members of the team.^[6] She recorded a goal and an assist in her first game of the Olympics,^[7] and finished the tournament with five points in five games in helping Canada win the gold medal.^[3]

She won a second Olympic gold medal in 2006 and her 15 points was second to Hayley Wickenheiser (17).^[8]

Una lesión de rodilla durante su último año en Dartmouth la apartó del equipo nacional durante más de un año y le impidió participar en el Campeonato Mundial de 2007. [ ^{9 ] Se} reincorporó al equipo a tiempo para el torneo de 2008, donde ganó su segunda medalla de plata. ^{[ 3 ]} Fue descartada del equipo de 2009, ^{[ 9 ]} pero consiguió un puesto en el equipo olímpico de 2010, donde ganó su tercera medalla de oro consecutiva. ^{[ 10 ]}

Piper nació el 29 de junio de 1981 en Toronto , Ontario , siendo la tercera hija de Alan y Christine Piper. Tiene dos hermanos mayores, Michael y Stephen, y siguió sus pasos en el deporte. ^{[ 9 ]} Jugó hockey juvenil en la Scarborough Hockey Association con los Scarborough Sabres antes de pasar a la Metropolitan Toronto Hockey League con los Scarborough Young Bruins. Estudió en el suburbio de Scarborough, en Toronto. Su escuela secundaria fue la Henry Kelsey Senior Public School y su escuela primaria fue la Alexmuir Junior Public School. Piper se graduó del Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute y se especializó en sociología en Dartmouth. ^{[ 2 ]}

El 7 de junio de 2018, Cherie se casó con su novio de toda la vida, Joe Butkevich, en una ceremonia celebrada en Memorial Gardens, en North Bay, Ontario, la ciudad natal de Butkevich.

• Segundo equipo All USCHO.com 2004-05 ^{[ 12 ]}
• Finalista del premio Patty Kazmaier, 2005 ^{[ 13 ]}