Catherine Daoust

Catherine Daoust is a Canadian ice hockey defender, currently playing with the Montréal section of the PWHPA.

Catherine Daoust
Born (1995-02-21) February 21, 1995
L'Île-Bizard, Quebec, Canada
Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Position Defence
Shoots Right
PWHPA team Montréal
Played for Les Canadiennes de Montréal
University of Minnesota-Duluth
National team  Canada
Playing career 2014–present

Career

Daoust won a 1500$ scholarship from the NHL's Montréal Canadiens in 2013.[1]

From 2014 to 2018, Daoust played and studied at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, putting up 37 points in 140 NCAA games.[2][3] She was named to the WCHA All-Academic Team in both 2016 and 2017, and served as an assistant captain for Minnesota-Duluth in her senior year.

She was drafted 28th overall by Les Canadiennes de Montréal in the 2018 CWHL Draft.[4] After graduating, she signed her first professional contract with the club, scoring 5 points in 27 games in her rookie CWHL season.[5] She scored her first goal in her second game, a 9-0 victory over the Worcester Blades.[6]

After the collapse of the CWHL in May 2019, she joined the PWHPA. She played for Team Knox at the Unifor Showcase in September 2019.[7]

International

She represented Team Canada at the 2013 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, scoring 3 points in 5 games as the country won gold.

Personal life

Daoust attended Cégep de Saint-Laurent. She has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.[8][9] Her boyfriend has launched the Until She’s Paid platform, aiming to profile women's hockey players and to petition the NHL to fund women's hockey.[10]

References
  1. "Trio of West Island hockey players honored by Montreal Canadiens". Montreal Gazette.
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  3. Wellens, Matt (February 9, 2018). "College women's hockey: Bulldogs ready to celebrate diverse senior class in regular season home finale". Duluth News Tribune.
  4. "Dans une ligue à part". www.hockeycanada.ca.
  5. "Hockey féminin : Catherine Daoust fait rayonner le hockey féminin". RDS.ca. January 24, 2020.
  6. "Hockey : Deux blanchissages et deux dominations des Canadiennes de Montréal". RDS.ca. November 18, 2018.
  7. "Recapping the Unifor Women's Hockey Showcase". Pension Plan Puppets. September 25, 2019.
  8. "Calculations at Play". University of Minnesota Duluth. November 10, 2015.
  9. "BULLDOG SPOTLIGHT: CATHERINE DAOUST". UMD Athletics.
  10. "Ligue professionnelle féminine: deux Montréalais interpellent la LNH". La Presse. January 10, 2020.
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