Name Gillian Apps Playing career Weight 80 kg | Height 1.8 m Shoots Left | |
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Current teams Canadian National Women's Hockey Team (#10 / Forward), Brampton Thunder (#10 / Forward) Similar People Jayna Hefford, Catherine Ward, Meghan Agosta, Haley Irwin, Cherie Piper Profiles |
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Gillian Mary Apps (born November 2, 1983) is a women's ice hockey player. She is the granddaughter of Hockey Hall of Fame member Syl Apps and the daughter of former National Hockey League player Syl Apps Jr..
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- Playing career
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- Awards and honors
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As a psychology major at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, Apps was a member of her college's ice hockey team, competing in ECAC women's ice hockey. She was a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team, winning gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She was also a winner of gold medals with Team Canada at the 2004 and 2007 World Ice Hockey Championships, and silver medals in that event in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

She currently competes for the Brampton Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League.

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Playing career


Coaching career

In the autumn of 2016, Apps joined Katie King's coaching staff with the Boston College Eagles women's ice hockey program.
Awards and honors

Personal

She attended William Berczy Public School in Unionville, Ontario. Apps also participates in snowboarding, wakeboarding, golf, and soccer. She grew up playing girls hockey in the GTA. She attended Havergal College where she excelled as a female athlete. Prior to the 2010 Olympics, Apps worked at the Royal Bank of Canada in an Olympians program, where she was called upon to meet clients or give motivational speeches to employees.
Her brother, Syl Apps III was signed as a Free Agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs on July 22, 1999, although he never played a game with the Maple Leafs. Her sister, Amy was a member of the Canadian National women’s soccer team and an OUA All Star in 1998 and 1999. Her cousin, rower Darren Barber, won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona as a member of the Canadian team. Barber also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he finished 4th. Apps's sister-in-law is Meaghan Sittler, whose father Darryl Sittler competed in the NHL. She is the aunt to a nephew named Sawyer.
On April 17, 2012, Apps (along with Meghan Agosta, Caroline Ouellette, Courtney Birchard, and head coach Dan Church took part in the opening face off of the playoff game between the Ottawa Senators and the New York Rangers at ScotiaBank Place.