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Gillian Apps
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gillian Mary Apps (born November 2, 1983) is a women's ice hockey player. Apps was a member of the Canadian National Hockey Team that won back to back gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games.
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![]() Apps in action for Brampton Thunder, 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
(1983-11-02) November 2, 1983 (age 40) North York, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shot | Left | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECAC CWHL team |
Dartmouth (2002–07) Brampton Thunder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team |
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Playing career | 2001–2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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As a psychology major at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, Apps was a member of her college's ice hockey team, competing in ECAC women's ice hockey. She was a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team, winning gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She was also a winner of gold medals with Team Canada at the 2004 and 2007 World Ice Hockey Championships, and silver medals in that event in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Apps was a member of the Brampton Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League until 2015 at which point she announced her retirement from professional women's hockey. Apps resides in Unionville, Ontario.[1]