Jacklyn "Jackie" Crum (born August 4, 1983) is a Canadian ice hockey coach, currently serving as an assistant coach with the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA)

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of the NCAA Division I. A retired

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, her professional career was played in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Playing career

Crum played four years of college ice hockey with the Wisconsin Baders during the 2001–02 season to the 2004–05 season. Across 136 games, she amassed 87

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on 53 goals and 34 assists, and was a four-year

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. She was named to the WCHA All-Academic Team in 2003 and served as an

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in the 2004–05 season. She was a member of the Canadian women's national ice hockey development team (also called the U22 or under-22 team) during 2001 to 2004, and contributed to Canada's victories at the

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and

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. Her first professional contract was signed with DSC Oberthurgau for the 2006–07 season of the Leistungsklasse A (LKA), the elite ice hockey league in Switzerland. Crum joined a roster that featured American defenceman and fellow NCAA-product Jill McInnis, Finnish Olympian

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, German Olympian

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, and Swiss under-18 players

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, Rahel Michielin,

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, and

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, all of whom would later become Olympians. DSC Oberthurgau finished third in the regular season before being knocked out of the playoff semifinals by EV Zug. After one season in Switzerland, Crum relocated to Prague and signed with the

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of HC Slavia Praha, which was active in both the

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(EWHL) and the Czech Women's 1. Liga, the premier Czech national ice hockey league (renamed Women's Extraliga in 2017). With the team, she won the Czech Championship in 2008 and 2009, the EWHL Championship in

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and

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, and played in the

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during the 2007–08 season and 2008–09 season tournaments.

Coaching career

Crum's first coaching experience was as an undergraduate assistant with the Badgers in the 2005–06 season, at the conclusion of which the team won the 2006 National Championship. After playing professionally in Europe, Crum was hired by the Badgers to assist interim head coach

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during the 2009–10 season while head coach Mark Johnson took a leave of absence in order to coach the United States women's national ice hockey team at the

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in Vancouver. Crum was hired to a full-time position in 2010 after Johnson's return.

Personal life

Crum graduated with a B.S. in kinesiology and physical education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006. She and Tim Crum were married in 2016 and have two children.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Friesen, Jackie 1983 births Living people Canadian expatriate ice hockey people in the United States Canadian ice hockey coaches Canadian women's ice hockey forwards European Women's Hockey League players Ice hockey people from Regina, Saskatchewan Swiss Women's League players University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey coaches Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States