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Stacy Wilson

Category

Athlete

Sport

Hockey

Hometown

Salisbury

Year Inducted

2007

Sport Ambassador

athlete

Stacy Wilson

HONOURED MEMBER

Biography

Like many young female hockey players, Salisbury's Stacy Wilson began her career playing minor hockey with the boys. In due course she moved on to women's intercollegiate hockey at Acadia University.Following graduation she became a member of the Moncton's Blades where she competed nationally for some ten years. Success after success followed at Pacific Rim and Three Nations Cup championships, but none greater than the four World Championships she and her national team-mates won in 1990, '92, '94 and '97.In 1998 she captained Canada's silver medal team at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.A year later she joined the coaching staff at the University of Minnesota Duluth where in a span of five years, the Bulldogs won three consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association championships. Despite those original pink uniforms, hers was a golden career — with an occasional touch of silver and bronze. Enrolled in the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame, June 9, 2007.

Quick Facts

  • Silver medalist and Captain of the first Canadian Women's Olympic Team at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan 

  • Four time gold medalist at the Women's Canadian Hockey World Championship (90', 92', 94', and 97') 

  • Three Nation Cup Gold medalist in 1996 and Silver medalist in 1997 

  • Two time Gold medalist at Pacific Rim Championship (95' & 96')

  • Bronze medalist and named Most Sportsmanlike Player of the 1996 Esso Woman's National Hockey Championship and Silver medalist and named MVP of the 1995 Woman's National Hockey Championship 

  • Captain of Team Canada Women's Hockey Team at World Championship, Pacific Rim 1995-1997 and 1997 Three Nations Cup 

  • Esso Champions Wall of Fame Inductee, Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999 

  • Named New Brunswick Athlete of the Year in 1998 Named Most Sportsmanlike Player at the 1990 National Women's Hockey Championship 

  • Top Scorer at the 1986 National Women's Hockey Championship

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