Dartmouth Women's Hockey Players Compete in National Tournament

HANOVER, N.H. – Three current Dartmouth women's hockey players have been called upon by their countries to participate in the Four Nations Cup in Kitchener, Ontario from November 7-11.

Team Canada is bringing in Dartmouth seniors Cherie Piper (Scarborough, Ont.) and Gillian Apps (Unionville, Ont.) to provide explosiveness on the front line. Both were members of the 2006 Canadian Olympic team that took home the gold medal from Turin, Italy.

The U.S. is calling upon freshman Sarah Parsons (Dover, Mass.) and Dartmouth alumnae Tiffany Hagge (Coon Rapids, Minn.) to help them take the Four Nations Cup. Parsons, who deferred enrollment to Dartmouth until this fall, skated with Team USA's Olympic team in Turin as their youngest member, earning a bronze medal.

Both Parsons and Hagge will be accompanied by three fellow Ivy League skaters as Caitlin Cahow and Julie Chu from Harvard got the call as well as Yale's Helen Resor. Team Canada also picked Harvard's Sarah Vaillancourt from the league.

The Four Nations round-robin tournament will showcase select teams from the U.S., Canada, Finland and Sweden. Each team will play each other once then play in either the gold medal game or the bronze medal game on the final day of the tournament concluding on Nov. 11.

Apps, Piper and Parsons will miss just two regular season games while playing for their countries. They will miss the team's first meetings with both Colgate and Cornell, but will be back for the all-ivy weekend taking on Yale and Brown on Nov. 17-18.

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