Catherine Daoust is a Canadian

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defender, currently signed with

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of the

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(PWHL).

Career

Daoust won a $1,500 scholarship from the NHL's

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in 2013. From 2014 to 2018, Daoust played and studied at the

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, putting up 37 points in 140

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games. 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

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. After graduating, she signed her first professional contract with the club, scoring 5 points in 27 games in her rookie

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season. She scored her first goal in her second game, a 9–0 victory over the

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. 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. In 2022, Daoust signed with

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in the PHF and spent one season with the team, before the PHF was bought out to form the PWHL. In 2023, she attended a training camp for

and was initially named to the reserve roster, but was subsequently elevated to the main roster ahead of the team's January 10 win over

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International

She represented Team Canada at the

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, scoring 3 points in 5 games as the country won gold.

Personal life

Daoust attended

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. She has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. Her boyfriend has launched the

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platform, aiming to profile women's hockey players and to petition the

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to fund women's hockey.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daost, Catherine 1995 births Living people Professional Women's Hockey Players Association players Les Canadiennes de Montreal players Canadian women engineers Ice hockey people from Montreal People from L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players Montreal Force players Canadian women's ice hockey defencemen French Quebecers