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2008-09 Women's Ice Hockey

26 Sarah Vaillancourt

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Sherbrooke, Que.
  • High School Pomfret School
  • Position Forward
  • Shoots/Catches R
  • House Affiliation Leverett

Biography

Senior • 2008-09
Team captain ... Top 10 Finalist for 2009 Patty Kazmaier Award ...RBKAHCA All-America first-team selection ... ECAC Hockey and IvyLeague Player of the Year ... Tabbed to All-ECAC Hockey and All-IvyLeague first teams ... Selected New England Hockey Writers DivisionI Player of the Year and honored on New England All-Star Team ...Named to preseason All-ECAC Hockey team ... Led ECAC Hockey inscoring with 35 points on 20 goals and 15 assists in 17 conferencegames ... Ranked fourth in the country with 1.93 points per game,tied for fourth with 1.00 assists per contest and was tied forseventh with 0.93 goals per game ... Paced the Crimson with 52points, 25 goals and 27 assists ... Stands seventh in schoolhistory with 237 points, fifth with 106 goals and fifth with 131assists ... Had 14 multi-point games and three hat tricks duringsenior season ... Mustered 177 shots on goal ... Named ECAC HockeyPlayer of the Week three straight times (Feb. 9, Feb. 16, Feb. 23)... Tallied a hat trick and collected four assists for aseason-high seven-point effort against Boston University in Beanpotopening round (Feb. 3) ... Followed up Beanpot performance with twoassists in win against Yale (Feb. 6) ... Added two goals and twoassists in victory against Brown (Feb. 7) to finish the week withfive goals and eight assists for 13 points ... Had five points(2-3-5) in 5-5 tie against Colgate (Nov. 21) and followed thatperformance with four points (2-2-4) the following evening in 5-1victory over Cornell (Nov. 22) ... Collected 200th career point ona goal in first period at Dartmouth (Dec. 17) ... Had first hattrick of season, scoring twice on the power play in 5-3 win atBrown (Jan. 9) ... Netted four tallies, including three in thethird period alone, and an assist in win at Cornell (Feb. 13);third goal against Big Red was 100th of her career ... Tallied twogoals in first period in victory over St. Lawrence (Feb. 20) ...Netted the game-winner on a power-play score and added another goaland an assist against Clarkson on Senior Day (Feb. 21) ... Handedout five assists in ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal series against Cornell(Feb. 27-28).

Junior • 2007-08
Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner as the nation’s bestplayer ... Harvard has now captured the trophy six times in 11years of the award’s history ... Joins A.J. Mleczko’97-99 (1999), Jennifer Botterill ’01-03 (2001 and2003), Angela Ruggiero ’02-04 (2004) and Julie Chu’06-07 (2007) as Harvard’s recipients of the PattyKazmaier Award ... Named ECAC Player of the Year ... Receivedfirst-team All-ECAC recognition ... Honored as unanimous selectionas Ivy League Player of the Year; also unanimous pick to All-IvyLeague first team ... RBK Hockey/AHCA All-America first team ...New England Hockey Writers Player of the Year ... New EnglandHockey Writers Division I Women’s All-Star ... Selected tothe ECAC Hockey preseason all-league team ... Was fifth in thenation with 1.82 points per game, tied for third with 1.06 assistsper game and fifth with 0.76 goals per contest ... Tied for secondin the country with three shorthanded goals and tied for fourthwith seven game-winners ... Led ECAC Hockey in points (18-22-40)... Is eighth all-time on Harvard career scoring list with 185points (81-104-185) ... Registered at least one point in 30 of 33contests ... Scored two goals and assisted on two other tallies inHarvard’s 5-1 win over Dartmouth in NCAA quarterfinals (March15) ... Collected three goals and one assist in ECAC quarterfinalwins over Cornell (Feb. 29-March 1); tallied a short-handed andempty-net goal in game two ... Scored the game-winning goal atColgate (Feb. 22) in 3-on-4 short-handed situation with 2:28remaining in the game ... Tallied two goals in Harvard’s 4-2win at Cornell (Feb. 23) to clinch Harvard’s perfect ECACregular season (22-0-0) ... Earned ECAC Player of the Week Dec. 3after scoring four goals and handing out four assists in wins overDartmouth (Nov. 27), at Rensselaer (Nov. 30) and at Union (Dec. 1)... Had a 13-game point-scoring streak to start season ... NamedECAC Player of the Week for second time Jan. 14 after scoring agoal and assisting on six tallies in wins over Boston College (Jan.8), at St. Lawrence (Jan. 11) and at Clarkson (Jan. 12) ... Had aseason-high five assists and was +4 against Boston College ...Recorded 18 multi-point games, including a three-point effort(1-2-3) against Cornell (Jan. 4) in which she scored her 150thcareer point ... Assisted on Caitlin Cahow’s game-winningpower-play goal in Beanpot final against Boston University (Feb.12) ... Tallied two goals including one on a penalty shot inHarvard’s 4-0 victory at Quinnipiac (Feb. 16) ... Led theCrimson with a +34 rating.

Sophomore • 2006-07
Top-10 finalist for Patty Kazmaier Award ... A second-teamAll-America, All-ECAC Hockey League and All-Ivy League pick ...Preseason All-ECACHL ... Ranked second nationally in goals per game(1.03), third in points per game (1.93), fifth in power-play goalsand ninth in assists per game (0.90) ... Became the eighth Harvardplayer to score 30 goals in a season ... Second on the team with a+24 rating ... Posted scoring streaks of six games (Jan. 26-Feb. 9,12-3-15 total) and five games (Dec. 1-9, 3-7-10) ... Scored moregoals than the opposing team on 10 occasions ... Totaled 13multi-point games ... Scored three goals and had five assists inseason-opening win against Rensselaer Oct. 28 and added four goalsagainst Union Oct. 29 for 12 points on the weekend ... Registeredthree points in both ends of a weekend sweep of No. 7 MinnesotaDuluth Dec. 1-2 ... Had two goals at Quinnipiac Nov. 24, at UnionFeb. 2, against Northeastern Feb. 13 and at home against Brown onFeb. 17 ... Recorded a hat trick against Rensselaer on Feb. 3 ...Tallied five goals and two assists against Cornell on Feb. 9 forthe seventh five-goal game in Crimson history.

Freshman • 2004-05
Named to the all-tournament team at the NCAA Championship andECACHL Championship ... ECACHL and Ivy League Rookie of the Year... Second-team All-ECACHL and ECACHL All-Rookie selection ...Honorable mention All-Ivy League ... Six-time ECACHL Rookie of theWeek (Nov. 8, Nov. 22, Dec. 12, Jan. 10, Jan. 31, Feb. 21) ...Finished third on the team and fifth in the nation in scoring ...Was first among rookies in scoring with 2.31 points per game ...Ninth in the nation in goals per game (0.86) ... Fifth in thenation in assists per game (1.45) ... Tied for sixth nationallywith 14 power play goals ... Second on the team with 27 power playpoints (11-16) ... Scored the Crimson’s first goal of theseason in 3-1 win over Colgate Nov. 5 ... Assisted on four ofHarvard’s seven goals in win at No. 9 Brown Nov. 16 ...Recorded a third-period hat trick and added a pair of assists tolift the Crimson to a come-from-behind 5-3 win at Connecticut Dec.8 ... Finished with a season-best six points (2-4-6) in 11-2 winover Yale Jan. 29 ... Had back-to back four-point games with a goaland three assists against Boston College and four assists atClarkson ... Scored both Crimson goals, including the game-winnerin overtime, in the 2-1 win against Yale in the ECACHL semifinals... Had two assists in the 5-4 triple-overtime win over Mercyhurstin the NCAA quarterfinals March 19 ... Tied the Frozen Four recordfor goals in a game (three), including two power-play goals, in the4-1 win over St. Lawrence in the NCAA semifinals ... Scored thethird-fastest hat trick in Frozen Four history, getting all threegoals in the first 26:45 ... Had a goal and an assist in the NCAAchampionship game against Minnesota.

International
Member of Canada’s 2006 Olympic team that captured the goldmedal at the Torino Winter Games ... Was on 2007 Canada NationalWomen’s Team that won gold medal at Four Nations Cup inLeksand, Sweden ... Earned the silver medal at 2008 Four NationsCup in Lake Placid, N.Y. ... Made her debut with Team Canada at the2003 Four Nations Cup, capturing a silver medal ... Earned a goldmedal at the 2004 and 2007 IIHF World Championships ... Won silverat 2008 IIHF World Championships in Harbin, China ... Posted a goaland an assist in the final against Team USA at 2007 Worlds ...Attended the 2003 Team Canada Thanksgiving Festival ... Played forCanada’s under-22 team in a three-game series vs. the U.S. in2003 and 2006.

Before Harvard
Played soccer, hockey and softball at Pomfret ... Captained allthree teams as a senior ... Holds Pomfret’s all-time pointsrecord ... 2004 New England Prep School League MVP ... 2003 NewEngland Prep School All-Star ... Earned the 2004 Pomfret Bowl asthe school’s top athlete as well as the Wendell D. MansfieldCup ... Captained Team Quebec to a silver medal at the 2003 CanadaWinter Games ... Played for Team Quebec in the 2001 Esso NationalChampionships ... Won a silver medal with Quebec at the 2001National Under-18 Challenge ... Captained her minor hockey peeweeBB boys’ team.

Concentration
Psychology.

Career Statistics

OFFENSE               GP    G    A  Pts Shots Shot% Pen-Min   +/- PPG SHG GWG2004-05.............  29   25   42   67   201  .124  32-72    +29  14   1   62006-07.............  29   30   26   56   177  .169   8-16    +24  14   0   42007-08.............  34   26   36   62   190  .137  17-34    +34   7   3   72008-09.............  27   25   27   52   177  .141  17-34    +28   6   2   4TOTAL............... 119  106  131  237   745  .142  74-156  +115  41   6  21

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