Ève Gascon

Ève Gascon is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for the Saint-Laurent Patriotes in the Hockey collégial masculin RSEQ.[1][2]

Ève Gascon
Born (2003-05-09) May 9, 2003
Terrebonne, Québec, Canada
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Position Goaltender
Hockey collégial masculin RSEQ team Saint-Laurent Patriotes
National team  Canada
Playing career –present

Career

From 2016 to 2018, she played for the Basses-Laurentides Conquérants Bantam AAA. In 2018, she tried-out for the Phénix du Collège Esther-Blondin in the Ligue de hockey midget AAA du Québec. Successfully making the team, she became the first girl to play full-time in the boys' AAA midget league in Québec.[3][4] In 2019, she became the second female player to be drafted into the Quebec Junior Hockey League, after Ann-Renée Desbiens, being selected 13th overall by the Collège Français.[5]

In August 2020, she was awarded the Isobel-Gathorne-Hardy award.[6] Later that year, she committed to studying at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the United States, where she will join a woman's hockey team for the first time. She is expected to join the university in 2022.[7]

International career

She represented Canada at the 2020 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, playing four games, including the championship final, as the country won silver.[8][9][10]

References
  1. Gagnon, François (March 26, 2020). "Hockey : Ève Gascon poursuit son ascension avec les Patriotes du Cégep Saint-Laurent". RDS.ca.
  2. Dubé, Kevin. "Une gardienne en renfort". Le Journal de Québec.
  3. ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Sports-. "Ève Gascon, première dame du hockey midget AAA québécois". Radio-Canada.ca.
  4. "Ève Gascon: dans l'histoire à tout jamais". Hockey Le Magazine.
  5. "Ève Gascon s'amène avec le CF". Collège Français de Longueuil.
  6. "Ève Gascon lauréate du prix Isobel-Gathorne-Hardy". Hockey Québec.
  7. "La folle année d'Ève Gascon". La Presse. September 8, 2020.
  8. "IIHF - Gascon shuts door as Canada beats U.S." IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation.
  9. "The masked history maker". www.hockeycanada.ca.
  10. ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Sports-. "Ève Gascon rêve aux Jeux olympiques de 2022 | Vous avez vu?". Radio-Canada.ca.
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