Amy Roxanne Curlew is a Canadian

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forward, currently playing with the

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of the

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(PHF).

Career

In high school, she played for the girls' hockey team at

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and for the Oakville Hornets of the

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(PWHL), winning the 2015

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(OWHA) Provincial Championship. From 2016 to 2020, she attended

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where she played 121

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games with the

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and scored 60

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. She missed the first five games of her

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season before picking up her first point on November 26, 2016 and her first goal a week later. She scored her first collegiate

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in November 2019, scoring all three in the second period of a 9–1 victory over

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. After finishing the 2019–20 season ranked first for the first time in program history, the Cornell Big Red had a chance at winning their first ever NCAA title before the 2020 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament was cancelled due to the

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. After news of the cancellation broke, she and the other five seniors on the team met with the team's staff to discuss rumours that their college eligibility could be extended by a year. She was drafted 8th overall by the expansion

in the

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. She signed her first professional contract with the club ahead of the

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Personal life

Curlew obtained her bachelor's degree in communication and media studies with a minor in horticulture from Cornell University.

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* Living people People from Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1998 births Canadian women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Newfoundland and Labrador Toronto Six players Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey players {{DEFAULTSORT:Curlew, Amy