Women's Ice Hockey in Canada - Famous Firsts

Famous Firsts

  • Lesley Reddon was part of the 1994–1995 UNB Varsity Reds men's team and became the first female goaltender to play in the Atlantic Universities Hockey Conference.
  • In 2002, at the age of 16, Shannon Szabados became the first female to play in the Western Hockey League. Szabados played in four exhibition games for the Tri-City Americans. On September 22, 2002 she played 20 seconds of a regular season game.
  • November 15, 2003: Kim St. Pierre was the first woman in CIS history to be credited with a win in a men's regular season game. This occurred when the McGill Redmen defeated the Ryerson Rams by a score of 5–2.
  • Catherine White scored the first goal in the history of the Canadian National Women's Under 18 program (on August 23, 2007 in Ottawa, Ontario).

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