Playing career
Drolet was also an accomplished softball player and was a member of the Canadian National Softball team in 1990 and 1991. Drolet played for Team Quebec at the 1991 Canada Winter Games and was also a member of the Vancouver Griffins. Drolet played for the Sherbrooke Jofa-Titan squad in the League Régionale du Hockey au Féminin in the province of Québec. In 1994, Drolet would become the team captain, and its general manager. She won a silver medal at the Nagano Olympic Games in Japan and played for her country in six world championships. She twice scored goals in overtime to help Canada to wins in the 1997 and 2000 world championships. In doing so, became the first person in the history of the IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships to score two gold medal clinching goals in overtime. She accomplished the feats on April 6, 1997 and April 9, 2000. During the 1999-2000 season, Nancy Drolet played for the Sainte-Julie Pantheres and scored 29 goals and added 17 assists. She played also for Vancouver Griffins (2001–02 and 2002–03). After her career in female hockey representing Canada, she gave many conferences where she educated hundreds of thousands of kids in schools across the country on environmental issues, health issues, and personal development. She also participated in multiple conferences internationally when it comes to subjects of health, athletic therapy, motivation, etc. Nancy became an entrepreneur in the physical therapy field and owned multiple clinics across the province. During the covid pandemic, she was one of the first people to become a Health and social services assistant when the Canadian forces were sent in to assist the crisis at the beginning of the pandemic.Awards and honours
*1993 Junior Athlete of the Year (selected by the Sports Federation of Canada)Personal life
In 1994, she married her long-time partner Natalie Allaire inReferences
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