Katie Weatherston
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Link to Women's Olympic Team: Katie Weatherston's Biography: Katie has been involved with hockey for more than 20 years and has experience in coaching, instucting, as well as being a referee. She started playing hockey at age 5 and played 9-13AA with the boys from ages 8-13. She then decided to make the transition to girls hockey where she played 2 years on both the Thunder Bay AA Queens and the Thunder Bay Intermediate A Comets respectfully in the TBWHA. She represented Team Ontario Blue at the U-18 National Championships in 2000. Katie majored in psychology and received her elementary teaching certification at Dartmouth College which is located in Hanover, New Hampshire. In her first 2 seasons at Dartmouth College she amassed a total of 95 points in 67 games (52g, 43ass.). Her point total through her first two seasons is second all time only to Gretchen Ulion (147).
Weatherstons Career Stats at Dartmouth College: | Season | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | | 2002-03 | 35 | 23 | 24 | 47 | 14 | | 2003-04 | 32 | 29 | 19 | 48 | 22 | | 2004-05 | 31 | 38 | 15 | 53 | 22 | | 2006-07 | 26 | 23 | 14 | 37 | 20 | | Totals | 124 | 113 | 72 | 185 | 78 | As a freshman, she put together one of the best freshman seasons in Big Green history. She finished second on team in scoring with 47 points, tied for the team lead with 24 assists and placed second with 23 goals. She was named to All-Ivy League second team, to ECAC Hockey League All-Rookie team, and was an All-ECAC Hockey League honorable mention. She tied for the team lead with six gamewinning goals and notched first career hat trick against Colgate on 3/8/03. In her sophmore year, she was named one of 12 Division I all-stars by the New England Hockey Writers Association, selected to the second team for All-Ivy and All-ECAC Hockey League, named to ECAC Hockey League all-academic team, twice named ECAC Hockey League Player of the Week, USCHO Division I Offensive Player of the Week on Jan. 27.
In her junior year, she led the team in goals (38) and finished second on the team in overall points with 53. She also led the team in power-play goals (15), short handed goals (3) and hat tricks (5). She had three hat tricks in five games against Minnesota, Union and New Hampshire where she scored all three of the Big Greens goals in the 3-1 win. As a senior, she missed eight games due to injury. She was second on the team in goals (23), third in points (37) and first in power play goals (13). She holds the top spot on Dartmouths all-time power play goals list. She Recorded 12 points over four ECACHL playoff games and she had 10 multi-point games. She netted four goals in Game One of the ECACHL Quarterfinals against Rensselaer and Holds a +18. She was named the ECACHL tournaments Most Outstanding Player and she was Awarded ECACHL Player of the Week once and USCHO's Offensive Player of the Week once.  After a standout freshman year, Katie received an invite to a selection camp for Team Canada. From there, she was selected to play on t he U-22 national team for 2 years where she won 2 gold medals at the Air Canada Cup in Germany in 2003 and 2004.
She was then selected to play on the Women's National Team and won gold in 4 Four Nations Cups (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008), as well as a gold medal at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy where she had 4 goals and 1 assist. She scored the game winner in the semi-final victory over Finland. Katie has played in 2 World Championships. In 2007, she won a gold medal in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 2008 she won a silver medal in Harbin, China.
Currently, Katie is playing for the Montreal Stars of the newly formed Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL).
Personal:
Katherine Marie Weatherston was born on April 6, 1983. She is the daughter of David and Anna Weatherston and has 2 brothers, Robert and Michael. She is fluent in Italian and enjoys playing and coaching hockey, soccer, and tennis. She also enjoys snowboarding, golfing, travelling, teaching and spending time at her family cottage in the summer.
She attended St. Patrick High School from 1997 to 2002 where she lettered for three years in five sports and was named her high school's athlete of the year four times. She has also worn the team Canada jersey elsewhere. She was selected to the U-19 Canadian Soccer team player pool in 2000 and 2001, and she helped Team Ontario win a gold medal at the 2001 Canada Games in London, ON and at the Nationals in 2000 in Winnepeg , MAN.
Katie attended Dartmouth College (an IVY league institution) and majored in Psychology and is a certified elementary teacher in the state of New Hampshire, as well as in Ontario.
Currently, Katie resides in Ottawa where she is an assistant coach with the Nepean Intermediate AA Wildcats. She is working as a substitute teacher, motivational speaker, and she runs clinics for hockey teams in the Ottawa area. In 2007, Katie travelled to Kugurrat, Nunavut where she ran a hockey clinic as well as was a motivational speaker for the children. She also just recently returned from Thunder Bay where she was a motivational speaker at a Celebrity Sports Dinner and spoke alongside football legend Warren Moon. Katie is very passionate about hockey and she truly enjoys working with children and inspiring others.
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