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Jennifer Botterill
The Olympic Games or Olympics is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Jennifer Botterill was born on May 1, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team. She won the silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998 as the youngest player on the Canadian team. Later, she won the gold medal in the 2002 games in Salt Lake City, Utah. She won her second gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, playing forward.
Botterill played college hockey for Harvard University from 1998-2003. She holds the NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association career scoring record that is 149 goals, 170 assists, and 319 points. She scored at least one point in 106 of her 107 career NCAA games including a streak of 80 successive games. She was the first player to win the Patty Kazmaier Award twice, and twice in a row, as the top player in NCAA women's hockey. Botterill usually plays for the Toronto Aeros of NHL the National Women's Hockey League.
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