Cheryl Pounder
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Gold | 2002 Salt Lake City | Ice Hockey | |
| Gold | 2006 Turin | Ice Hockey | |
Cheryl Pounder (born June 21, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec) is a women's ice hockey player.
Pounder plays defense for the Canadian women's team in Turin though she normally plays for the Toronto Aeros of the National Women's Hockey League. She went to high school at St.Martin Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario. She was also the captain of the ice hockey team at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. Although Pounder was born in Montreal, her home town is Toronto, Ontario. She is 5"4, and weighs 143 lb.
Career Highlights -Has won two gold medals (2002, 2006) in total at Olympics -Has won five gold medals (1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004) and one silver (2005) in total at world championships -Has won seven gold medals (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005) and one silver (2003) in total at Three/Four Nations Cup
Quote "Courage is not defined by those who failed and fell, but by those who failed, fell and rose again." - Quote that Pounder taped to her bedroom wall after failing to make the women's hockey team headed to the 1998 Nagano Games
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