Dartmouth Women's Hockey Well Represented in the 2007 IIHF World Women's Championships

HANOVER, N.H. - Dartmouth women's hockey will be well represented at the 2007 IIHF World Women's Championships which are being held at Winnipeg and Selkirk, Manitoba, April 3-10. Current Big Green players Gillian Apps (Unionville, Ont.), Katie Weatherston (Thunder Bay, Ont.), and Sarah Parsons (Dover, Mass.) along with former Dartmouth skaters Kristin King '02 and Tiffany Hagge '06 will compete for either Team USA or Team Canada.

The daily schedule and results from the championships can be found here.

Apps racked up the awards before hanging up her Dartmouth skates. She was named the Ivy League and ECACHL Player of the Year, selected first team All-ECACHL and second team All-America. She was named as the New England Hockey Writers MVP and was played on the Division I Women's All-Star Team as well as being a Patty Kazmaier Award Finalist.

Weatherston picked up All-Ivy honors for the second time in her storied Dartmouth career. She finished the season third in scoring with 37 points. Her 185 career points put her fifth on the Dartmouth charts while her 113 career goals moved her into third.

Parsons was named the Ivy League and the ECACHL's Rookie of the Year. In her first season, Parsons lead the team in points (50) and assists (36). Along with top rookie honors, Parsons was named to the league's second team.

The first IIHF sanctioned Women's World Championship took place in Ottawa in 1990. The Women's World Championship is now held in every year in which the Winter Olympics do not take place.

Starting in 1999, in addition to the main IIHF World Championship, an A Pool World Championship was added. At this time, it was decided that the European World Championship would be discontinued. Now there is the main World Championship, as well as an A, B, and C Pool.

Women's hockey was accepted into the 1998 Winter Olympics as a full medal sport for the first time. The 1997 World Championship served as a qualifier for this inaugural Women's Hockey Olympic event.

In addition to the IIHF sanctioned Women's World Hockey Championships, which started in 1990, there was also a women's hockey World Tournament in 1987.

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