Shot Left Role Ice hockey player Position Defenseman Name Caitlin Cahow Career start 2006 | Playing career Weight 71 kg Height 1.63 m | |
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Caitlin cahow speaks at the 2014 hrc equality convention
Caitlin Kinder Cahow (born May 20, 1985) is a former American ice hockey player. She attended the Foote School, where she graduated in 2000 and then attended the Hotchkiss School where she graduated in 2003 after playing soccer, field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse.
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- Caitlin cahow speaks at the 2014 hrc equality convention
- Balancing playing professionally life and school caitlin cahow part 3 of series
- Playing career
- NCAA
- WWHL
- CWHL
- USA Hockey
- JAL Hockey
- Awards and honors
- Personal life
- References
Cahow was a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team and also for Boston Blades in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. She graduated from Harvard University in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in social/biological anthropology and from Boston College Law School in 2013.
Balancing playing professionally life and school caitlin cahow part 3 of series
Playing career
While Cahow’s mother was a professor at Yale University, her first exposure to the ice rink was through figure skating. After one figure skating practice, she saw hockey players take to the ice and noticed that the players had ponytails. From there, Cahow gave up figure skating and attended a kids' hockey clinic. Most of the students at the clinic were boys. Cahow’s mother forced her to play her first year in hockey wearing figure skates.
NCAA
Cahow played four years at Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey in the ECAC Hockey. Led all ECACH defensemen with 37 points (15-22) in 34 games. As a Junior (2006–07): Led team defensemen with 28 points (8-20) in 30 games.
WWHL
She tied for first among the league's defensemen with 21 points (3-18) in 19 games.. She helped the Minnesota Whitecaps to the Western Women's Hockey League championship in 2008-09 season and was named top defenseman at the Championship.
CWHL
During the 2012-13 CWHL season, Cahow was the captain of the Boston Blades. By season’s end, she would become the second American-born captain to help a team win the Clarkson Cup.
USA Hockey
She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She plays defense and is left-handed. Before the Olympics, Cahow captained the United States Under-22 Select Team in 2006 after the USA Hockey National Women's Festival in Lake Placid, New York.
JAL Hockey
Caitlin last played for the JD Whale, an adult recreational league based at Johnny's Ice House in Chicago, in Winter 2014-2015. JAL stands for Johnny's Adult League.
Awards and honors
Personal life
Cahow was born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Branford, Connecticut. She was named after figure skater Caitlin Carruthers, who won a silver medal for pairs skating with her brother, Peter Carruthers, at the 1984 Olympics. Cahow's mother, Barbara Kinder was a professor of surgery at Yale University. One of Cahow's heroes was Manon Rhéaume. The two got the opportunity to play together for the Minnesota Whitecaps.
Cahow’s father, Elton, was a surgeon and he died of cancer when she was only 11 years old. Cahow graduated from Harvard University in 2008 with a degree in anthropology. Cahow also studied the French language at Harvard and used it for an interview with French-Canadian media. As a student at Harvard, Cahow met Boston Lobsters tennis player Nicole Pratt. Cahow and Pratt developed a hockey-tennis dry-land workout which helped Pratt make a comeback at the French Open tennis tournament.
Cahow has two brothers, Garrett and Christian.
Cahow, who is openly lesbian, was chosen by US President Barack Obama as part of his delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Cahow lived in Vinalhaven, Maine, but now lives in Chicago and is an attorney at Jones Day.