Canada Meghan Agosta Gillian Apps Tessa Bonhomme Jennifer Botterill Cassie Campbell Delaney Collins Judy Diduck Nancy Drolet Dan...

Jayna Hefford's international hockey career has come to an end. The Hockey Hall of Fame will be calling soon. The Kingston, Ontari...

The announcement that Gillian Apps was retiring from Canada's National Women's team, so ended one of hockey's great family li...

Catherine Ward's hockey dream was to be a part of Team Canada and winning gold medals at the Olympics. But hockey gave her much more...

There was a time not so long ago that it would have seemed impossible that the Hockey Hall of Fame would ever enshrine someone who was bo...

Meghan Agosta isn't hanging up her skates just yet. But she is pausing her hockey career and getting her next career started. Norm...

Tessa Bonhomme was a quietly solid defenseman for a decade with Canada's national women's team. Off the ice she was vibrant person...

Nancy Drolet had a storied career, but I always think of the 1997 world championships when I hear her name. Canada captured their 4th c...

This is Valentina Bettarini. In 2006 she set Olympic hockey history by representing her native Italy at the Torino games. At the age of 15...

On November 11th, 2013 Geraldine Heaney will become just the third female player inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Heaney will join h...

Gina Kingsbury played forward in two Olympics for Team Canada, winning gold in both 2006 and 2010. The Saskatchewan-born, Quebec-raised...

Chasing Olympic and national team dreams is a big sacrifice for most athletes. But for Becky Kellar (now Becky Kellar-Duke), she put her ...

Talk about an amazing storybook ending. Colleen Sostorics went from impossible dreams in small town Saskatchewan to striking gold on the...

Three-time Olympic gold medallist Cherie Piper has announced her retirement from the Canadian women's hockey team. The 31-year-old ...

Injuries shortened the promising career of Canada's Sarah Vaillancourt Vaillancourt was an amazing story in her college career ...

Once called "the Gordie Howe of women’s hockey", Danielle Goyette was a superstar talent on offence who  continued to produce ...

Described as a "big hearted" alternate captain of Team USA's gold medal winning 1998 Olympics squad, Karyn Bye was one of th...

Karen Koch was the first professional female hockey player in North America. As an 18 year old Koch (pronounced Cook) signed to play wit...

Angela Ruggiero, a four-time Olympic hockey medalist, retired as the all-time leader (male or female) in games played (256) in a USA hoc...

Delaney Collins was not the best known member of Team Canada's women's national team in the 2000s. But she was a nice contributor...

I had just finished writing about former NHL defenseman Gerald Diduck when I realized this would be a great time to also remember his siste...

Jennifer Botterill announced her retirement for the Canadian women's national team in March 2011, marking the end of one of the most ...

This is a photograph of women playing hockey at Ottawa's Rideau Hall way back in 1890. It is believed to be the earliest recorded image ...

Kathryn Waldo is unlike most of the female legends of hockey profiled on this website. She never played in any international tournaments. No...

Vicky Sunohara was one of the most decorated Canadian female players of all time. Sunohara joined the Canada's National Women's Te...

Chanda Gunn, a native of Huntington Beach, California, was Team USA's goaltender at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. That team...

Hockey is game known for toughness and courage. In the world of women's hockey, few are tougher or more courageous than Shelley Looney. ...

The lady in the middle is Elizabeth Graham. She played as a goaltender in Kingston, Ontario for the Queen's University women's hock...

As a huge fan of the World Junior Hockey Championships, Jason Botterill of Team Canada quickly became a favorite of mine. After all, when yo...

Canada Cassie Campbell Abby Hoffman Angela James Albertine Lapensee Hilda Ranscombe Manon Rheaume Bobbie Rosenfeld France St. Louis USA Camm...

The mustachioed man embracing this married couple is Tommy Topel. He is the Swedish Hockey League's sports director. As you can see, he ...

France St. Louis took seriously to the game of hockey late in her storied athletic career. That did not prevent him from becoming one of the...

When discussing early women's hockey history it is impossible not to mention the Preston Rivulettes of the 1930s. The Rivulettes were ...

Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld not only ranks as the top female hockey player of the first half of the 20th century, but the top Canadia...

three time Ivy League Player of the Year at Brown University, where she is still the program's all time leading scorer with 206 points i...

Manon Rheaume is probably the most famous female hockey player. Rheaume was born on February 24, 1972 in the small town of Lac Beauport, Q...

The year is 1998. For the first time in Olympic history, women's hockey will be included as a medal sport at the Winter Olympic Games in...

In 1956, a 9 year old defenseman named Ab Hoffman made headlines across North America. Ab was actually Abigail, better known as Abby, a gi...

Cassie Campbell is easily one of the most recognizable female hockey players in the world. She is also one of the most decorated. Campbell...

"When you think women's hockey, you think Cammi Granato. She's one of the pioneers. The one who opened the doors. So many litt...

As Canadian men traded their hockey sticks for guns and headed to the battlegrounds of Europe, hockey began to suffer. In Montreal, the Wand...