QU Women's Ice Hockey Assistant Coach Amanda Mazzotta Wins Gold Medal at Nations Cup
1/7/2016 4:17:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey
(Photo courtesy of Hockey Canada)
FUSSEN, Germany – Quinnipiac women's ice hockey assistant coach Amanda Mazzotta won a gold medal with Canada's National Development Team Thursday afternoon at the 2016 Nations Cup with a 4-3 overtime victory over Finland.
For Canada, it was their 11th gold medal at the tournament in 14 years since first competing in 2003.
Last season, Mazzotta won the silver medal with the Canadian U-18 National Team as a goaltending coach for IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship under current Quinnipiac head coach Cassandra Turner. As a player, Mazzotta won the gold medal at the Nations Cup twice in 2010 and 2011 and has also won a silver medal as a player on the U-18 at the IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship.
Canada won all three games it played in the tournament, including an overtime win over Sweden on Monday, Jan. 4 that pitted Mazzotta's Canadian team against former Quinnipiac women's ice hockey forward Erica Uden Johansson's Swedish National Team. Canada then defeated Russia the next day, 4-2 before defeating Finland in overtime on Thursday.
Uden Johansson scored one goal and added one assist to garner two points for Sweden throughout the tournament. She picked up an assist for Sweden in the opening-game loss to Canada on Jan. 4 before netting her only goal of the tournament in Sweden's 5-1 win over Switzerland in the fifth-place game on Thursday.
Mazzotta's Quinnipiac women's ice hockey team will return to action on Friday, Jan. 8 with a matchup against the Rensselaer Engineers at Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y. with puck drop scheduled for 7 P.M. before traveling to Schenectady, N.Y. to take on the Union Dutchwomen at Messa Rink on Saturday at 4 P.M.
FUSSEN, Germany – Quinnipiac women's ice hockey assistant coach Amanda Mazzotta won a gold medal with Canada's National Development Team Thursday afternoon at the 2016 Nations Cup with a 4-3 overtime victory over Finland.
For Canada, it was their 11th gold medal at the tournament in 14 years since first competing in 2003.
Last season, Mazzotta won the silver medal with the Canadian U-18 National Team as a goaltending coach for IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship under current Quinnipiac head coach Cassandra Turner. As a player, Mazzotta won the gold medal at the Nations Cup twice in 2010 and 2011 and has also won a silver medal as a player on the U-18 at the IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship.
Canada won all three games it played in the tournament, including an overtime win over Sweden on Monday, Jan. 4 that pitted Mazzotta's Canadian team against former Quinnipiac women's ice hockey forward Erica Uden Johansson's Swedish National Team. Canada then defeated Russia the next day, 4-2 before defeating Finland in overtime on Thursday.
Uden Johansson scored one goal and added one assist to garner two points for Sweden throughout the tournament. She picked up an assist for Sweden in the opening-game loss to Canada on Jan. 4 before netting her only goal of the tournament in Sweden's 5-1 win over Switzerland in the fifth-place game on Thursday.
Mazzotta's Quinnipiac women's ice hockey team will return to action on Friday, Jan. 8 with a matchup against the Rensselaer Engineers at Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y. with puck drop scheduled for 7 P.M. before traveling to Schenectady, N.Y. to take on the Union Dutchwomen at Messa Rink on Saturday at 4 P.M.
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