Fischer Inks Spot at Canada Under-22 Camp

Photo by Beverly Schaefer

HANOVER, N.H. -- Dartmouth sophomore Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alta.) is among 42 players to be chosen to compete for a spot on the Canadian National Women’s Under-22 Team.

The camp will take place from August 7-14 at Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary.

The players were selected to be part of the selection camp based on evaluations done by Hockey Canada regional scouts and the National Women’s Team coaching staff during the 2008-09 season. These evaluations included performances with Canada’s national team, under-18 and under-22 programs, their club teams, along with the National Women’s Under-22 Team strength and conditioning/skating camp in May in Calgary, among other criteria.

In addition to the 38 players who were born in 1988 or later, Hockey Canada has added four players to the roster who had previously used up their under-22 eligibility (Bettez, Blais, Guay, Hosier). These players were eligible for Canada’s National Women’s Team, but were not selected for centralization ahead of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. As Hockey Canada does not operate a program for identified senior players that have not been centralized, these four players will train with the under-22 program for the 2009-10 season. All four players previously played for Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team.

The players attending camp are eligible to represent Canada at the 2010 MLP Cup in Ravensburg, Germany in early January. Canada has won the tournament six times in seven years, losing just two games. Hockey Canada will use the camp to select 22 players for a three-game series against Canada’s National Women’s Team in Calgary in mid August.

Seventeen players return from last year’s National Women’s Under-22 Team, while six members of Canada’s silver medal-winning 2009 National Women’s Under-18 Team will attend the camp.

“We are excited with the players we have chosen to bring to the selection camp,” says Margot Page, head coach of Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team. “A number of these players will be in the running for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, and we are thrilled to begin the road towards Sochi.”

The National Women’s Under-22 Team selection camp will see the 42 players divided into two teams – Red and White – which will compete with Sweden’s national women’s team in a series of games.

In her first season with the Big Green, Fischer led all rookies with 26 points on 15 goals and 11 assists. Overall, she was sixth on the team. Her 15 tallies was third on the team and she was fourth in power play goals with seven on the season. Fischer’s four game-winning goals was tops on the Big Green and her 15 goals on 82 total shots was second in shot percentage (.183).