Hilary Knight Hockey Player

Hilary Knight Bio

A two-time Olympic Silver medalist, seven-time IIHF World Champion and apparently the best female hockey player on the planet.

Changing the scene for female competitors over all games, leaving a mark on the world as the main female skater (non-goalie) to rehearse with a NHL group.

Hilary Knight Hockey PlayerHeight                           5′ 11″


Weight                          172


Birthdate                       07/12/1989


Shoots                          Right


Hometown                    Sun Valley, Idaho


College                         University of Wisconsin (WCHA)


Most Recent Team       Boston Pride (NWHL)

 

About

Hilary experienced childhood in a skiing family with guardians who had never ice skated. She was on skis at two years old, yet when she turned five, her family moved to Chicago and she started playing ice hockey. Her three more youthful siblings all played hockey and helped her sharpen her aptitudes growing up. At five years of age, Hilary revealed to her grandma, she would play ice hockey in the Olympics. Her grandmother communicated her worries and revealed to Hilary that young ladies don’t play hockey. Hilary’s mother, Cynthia, reacted, “Get with the circumstances. Hilary plays hockey.”

Kilary Knight Image

In 2014, Hilary helped lead Team USA to a Silver Medal at the Sochi Olympics, where was named to the media top pick group notwithstanding, being named the Bob Allen’s Player of the Year for Women’s Hockey. That same year, through ESPN Magazine’s “The Body Issue,” Hilary smashed that solid isn’t female, and stood up for the benefit of ladies everywhere throughout the world.

US women beat Canada

As a component of Team USA, Hilary keeps on helping lead the group to Gold at the 2015, 2016, and 2017 IIHF World Championships. She scored the amusement winning objective in extra time in the 2017 IIHF Gold Medal diversion against Canada, played on home soil in Minnesota.

U.S. Women's National Hockey Team

Hilary was a basic and intense voice in the US Women’s National Team’s battle to measure up to pay in the spring of 2017, just fourteen days before the IIHF World Championships. Hilary proceeds with the discussion of impartial pay bolster overall games. Her effect on ladies’ games has made an open door for ladies and young ladies wherever to venture up and contend.


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