Jenelle Kohanchuk

In 2008, she joined the Boston Terriers women’s ice hockey program. She was named to the Hockey East all-rookie team and was named top rookie at the Hockey East championship in 2008-09. In the same season, she led the Terriers in scoring and was the co-leader among all Hockey East freshmen. The following season, she finished fifth on the Terriers scoring list in 2009-10, leading all sophomores. She was part of the Terriers squad that won its first-ever Hockey East championship in 2010. In addition, she participated with the Hockey East All-Stars in a game against the United States’ Women’s National Team on Nov. 22, 2009. She was in the Frozen Four in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Kohanchuk’s first experience with Hockey Canada came when she attended Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team selection camp in Toronto, Ont., in August 2008. On two separate occasions, she was a member of Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team for a three-game series vs. the United States. The first series occurred in Calgary, Alberta in August 2009 while the second was in Toronto, Ontario in August 2010. In addition, Kohanchuk won three gold medal's with Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team at the 2010, 2011, and 2012 MLP Cup in Ravensburg, Germany. She scored one of the six goals in the gold medal game of the 2011 MLP Cup. Kohanchuk was Centralized for the 2013/2014 Sochi Roster, but was one of the six players released from the final roster. In that year she won Gold with the National team at the 2013 Four Nations Cup, capturing 2 Goals and an assist in the gold medal game. The following year in Kamploops, she won another Gold at the Four Nations Cup, defeating Team USA in a shoot-out.[1]