Helen Resor (born October 18, 1985) is an American
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
player. She won a bronze medal at the
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...
. She graduated from Yale University in 2009. Helen Resor was the first Yale hockey player to compete in women’s ice hockey at the Olympics. Her sister, Jane, also played ice hockey for the
Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey
Yale University women's ice hockey (YWIH) is an NCAA Division I varsity ice hockey program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
One of the oldest varsity women's ice hockey programs in the country, Yale women's ice hockey dates back to 1 ...
program. Resor's brother-in-law is former NHL player
Jeff Hamilton.
Playing career
As a youth player she began a bench-clearing brawl in a game in which she was the only female playing. Resor played her high school hockey at Noble & Greenough Prep School in Massachusetts where she was coached by her uncle, Tom Resor.
Helen Resor was selected to play for Team USA in the 2006 Olympics. Resor was the first Bulldog to achieve that status, and when she won a bronze medal she became the first Yale hockey player of either gender to earn a medal since five Bulldog men won silver with Team USA in 1932.
Awards and honors
*2004-05 All USCHO.com Rookie Team
*2009 Third Team All-ECAC
*Finalist for the 2009 Patty Kazmaier Award
References
External links
Helen Resor's U.S. Olympic Team bio
1985 births
American women's ice hockey defensemen
Ice hockey players from Connecticut
Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in ice hockey
Sportspeople from Greenwich, Connecticut
Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey players
Noble and Greenough School alumni
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