Sarah Nurse

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Sarah Nurse
File:Sarah nurse tiff 2022.jpg
Nurse at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival
Born (1995-01-04) January 4, 1995 (age 30)
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 148 lb (67 kg; 10 st 8 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
PWHPA team
Former teams		 Independent
Toronto Furies
Wisconsin Badgers
National team  Canada
Playing career 2015–present
Medal record
Women's ice hockey
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Beijing Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Pyeongchang Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Canada
Gold medal – first place 2022 Denmark
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Finland
World U18 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Finland

Sarah Nurse (born January 4, 1995) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player of the Canadian women's national ice hockey team. She made her debut with the national team at the 2015 4 Nations Cup.[1] In 2018, she represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics where she won a silver medal. Her success continued as she scored the opening goal in the 2022 Gold medal game where Team Canada defeated the United States 3-2.

Nurse was drafted second overall by the Toronto Furies in the 2018 CWHL Draft.

Playing career

PWHL

Nurse won a silver medal with Stoney Creek at the Ontario Women's Hockey Association (OWHA) provincials. She also won a bronze medal in high school at the 2010 OFSSAA championships and a silver at OFSSAA 2011. In 2010, she played with Team Heaney and reached the quarter-finals of the 2010 Ontario Winter Games.

During the 2010–11 Provincial Women's Hockey League (PWHL) season, she led the Stoney Creek Jr. Sabres in scoring. She was named to the OWHA All-Star Team for a game vs. Team Ontario Under-18. For the 2011–12 PWHL season, she was named an alternate captain with Stoney Creek. She helped the club win a bronze medal at the PWHL championships. She ranked second on the club in Stoney Creek scoring.

With the Stoney Creek Jr. Sabres of the PWHL, she broke the league record shared by Kelly Sabatine and Thea Imbrogno for most goals in a season. Breaking the mark in the 2012–13 season, Nurse scored 35 goals, highlighted by a hat-trick in the season's final game.[2]

Wisconsin Badgers

Nurse played NCAA Division hockey with the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA).

In the 2015 WCHA Final Faceoff championship game, Nurse scored twice, including the game-winning goal against Bemidji State.

An 8–2 win on December 4, 2016, against the Badgers’ archrivals, the Minnesota Golden Gophers provided Nurse with a career milestone. Playing in front of a sellout crowd at LaBahn Arena, Nurse scored three goals, becoming the first player in program history to score a hat-trick against Minnesota.[3]

CWHL

After competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Nurse was drafted second overall by the Toronto Furies in the 2018 CWHL Draft.[4] On October 17, 2018, a Furies match at MasterCard Centre versus the visiting Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays saw Nurse score the first goal of her CWHL career. Breaking a 1–1 tie on the power play at the 8:54 mark of the third, said goal would also stand as the game-winning tally in a 3–1 final, which provided Shea Tiley with her first goaltending win in league play.[5]

PWHPA

Skating for Team Sonnet (Toronto), Nurse participated in the 2021 Secret Cup, which was the Canadian leg of the 2020–21 PWHPA Dream Gap Tour. She logged a goal and an assist in a 4-2 championship game loss versus Team Bauer (Montreal).[6]

International play

Nurse was a member of Team Ontario blue that competed at the 2011 and 2012 National Women's Under-18 Championship, winning gold in 2011 and a bronze in 2012. She was a member of the Canadian team that captured gold at the 2013 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship.

At the 2015 4 Nations Cup, Nurse was a member of Canada's U22/Development Team, winning a gold medal. She contributed two assists in a 4–1 win over Finland on January 3, 2015.[7]

Nurse participated for Team Canada in the Elite Women's 3-on-3 game at the Skills Competition of the 2020 National Hockey League All-Star Game.

Nurse was selected to compete for Team Canada in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.[8][9] She scored her first Olympic goal in a 2–1 victory over the United States on February 14.[10] She helped Team Canada take home a silver medal in a shootout against the United States.[11]

On January 11, 2022, Nurse was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.[12][13][14] In Beijing, she set two new Olympic records for most points (18) and most assists (13) in a single women's tournament.[15]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2009–10 Stoney Creek Jr. Sabres PWHL 4 1 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0
2010–11 Stoney Creek Jr. Sabres PWHL 36 18 13 31 12 6 3 1 4 0
2011–12 Stoney Creek Jr. Sabres PWHL 30 21 16 37 21 8 3 2 5 4
2012–13 Stoney Creek Jr. Sabres PWHL 35 36 20 56 26 8 6 8 14 8
2013–14 University of Wisconsin WCHA 38 11 10 21 2 — — — — —
2014–15 University of Wisconsin WCHA 37 15 10 25 10 — — — — —
2015–16 University of Wisconsin WCHA 36 25 13 38 10 — — — — —
2016–17 University of Wisconsin WCHA 39 25 28 53 26 — — — — —
2018–19 Toronto Furies CWHL 26 14 12 26 16 3 1 0 1 0
2019–20 GTA West PWHPA — — — — — — — — — —
2020–21 Toronto PWHPA — — — — — — — — — —
CWHL totals 26 14 12 26 16 3 1 0 1 0

International

Year Team Event Result   GP G A Pts PIM
2013 Canada U18 2nd 5 1 0 1 0
2018 Canada OG 2nd 5 1 0 1 4
2019 Canada WC 3rd 7 2 6 8 2
2021 Canada WC 1st 7 1 2 3 2
2022 Canada OG 1st 7 5 13 18 4
2022 Canada WC 1st 7 2 2 4 8
Junior totals 5 1 0 1 0
Senior totals 33 11 23 34 20

Awards and honours

NCAA

  • All-WCHA Rookie Team (2013-14)
  • 2015 WCHA Frozen Face-Off Most Outstanding Player
  • WCHA All-Tournament Team (2015)
  • All-WCHA Third Team (2015-16)
  • Second-Team All-American (2016-17)[16]
  • WCHA 20th Anniversary Team [17]

IIHF and Olympics

  • IIHF Women's World Hockey Championship gold medalist (2021–2022) and bronze medalist (2019)
  • Olympic gold medalist (2022) and silver medalist (2018)

Personal life

Nurse began skating when she was three years old. She started playing hockey when she was five.[18] Her cousins are professional hockey player Darnell Nurse of the Edmonton Oilers and basketball player Kia Nurse of the Phoenix Mercury.[19] Her uncles were also involved in athletics; her uncle Donovan McNabb played pro football in the National Football League (NFL) as a quarterback and her other uncle, Richard Nurse, was a wide receiver for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL).[8]

Nurse, the biracial daughter of a black Trinidadian father and a white mother,[20] has spoken at length about racism in ice hockey.[21] When a student wore a costume depicting Barack Obama being lynched to a Badgers football game in 2016, Nurse posted a statement condemning not just the student, but a culture of racism in student athletics at the University of Wisconsin.[22][23] In the wake of the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020, Nurse spoke with Caroline Cameron of Sportsnet, urging Canadians not to separate themselves from the racism of the United States, citing the discrimination against Viola Desmond.[24] Nurse told The Canadian Press in November that her social media commentary on racial equality left her "flooded with interview requests".[25] In September 2020, Liz Knox resigned her position on the PWHPA board to allow Nurse to take her place, citing the association's "blind spot" with regards to race issues in ice hockey.[26]

In November 2020, Mattel and Tim Hortons collaborated on two limited-edition Barbie dolls based on Nurse and fellow hockey player Marie-Philip Poulin. The dolls were created as part of Barbie's You Can Be Anything program, which aims to inspire "girls to reach their limitless potential through imaginative play and engaging with meaningful role models."[27] Nurse was featured on the June 2021 cover of Elle Canada along with Hanna Bunton and Brigette Lacquette.[28] Nurse appeared as a guest judge in an episode of the third season of Canada's Drag Race, which aired in summer 2022.[29] Also in 2022, Nurse became the first woman to appear on the cover of an EA Sports NHL title with NHL 23, appearing alongside Trevor Zegras.[30]

References

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Preceded by EA Sports NHL Cover Athlete
Along with Trevor Zegras
2023		 Succeeded by
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