Danielle Dube Explained

Position:Goaltender
Catches:Left
Height Ft:5
Height In:8
Weight Lb:160
Team:Long Beach Ice Dogs
UBC Thunderbirds
League:WCHL
Canada West
Sex:f
Ntl Team:CAN
Birth Date:10 March 1976
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Career Start:1994
Career End:2004

Danielle Dube (born March 10, 1976) played for the Canadian National women's ice hockey team from 1994 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2002.[1] She was a late cut from the 1998 and 2002 Canadian Olympic teams.

On December 11, 2002, Danielle Dube became the third female goaltender to start in goal for a professional men's team.[2] Dube was the goalie for the Long Beach Ice Dogs in a loss against the San Diego Gulls.[3] She stopped 12 of 13 shots for the Ice Dogs.[4] In 2008, she had considered approaching the Vancouver Canucks, with hopes of earning a recommendation to play for the ECHL's Victoria Salmon Kings.[5]

On August 26, 2011, she participated in the Longest Ice Hockey Game 4 CF, at Canlan Ice Sports Burnaby 8 Rinks in Burnaby, British Columbia. The goal was to play for the next 10 days as 40 women attempted to set a new Guinness World Record for playing the longest hockey game while also raising funds and awareness for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.[6]

Dube is currently studying at the University of British Columbia. She joined the UBC Thunderbirds women's ice hockey program as a player at the beginning of the 2012-13 Canada West season and helped the team to the greatest turnaround in Canadian Interuniversity Sport history.[7]

Awards and honours

Personal

Danielle lives with her two children, son Porter and daughter Camden. When she was eight and a half weeks pregnant with Porter, she played in a Sea-to-Sky Challenge game.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Official Website of Hockey Canada | Minor Hockey, Team Canada, National Championships and more.
  2. Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4, p.118, Bob Ferguson, Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd., Markham, ON and Allston, MA,
  3. Hockey’s Book of Firsts, p.54, James Duplacey, JG Press,
  4. Web site: Getting Her Shot. . 2002-12-11.
  5. Web site: Goalie never stops stopping . 2011-08-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121110155044/http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=ae3ecb0b-2f65-4801-ac6b-44a88f94e301&sponsor= . 2012-11-10 . dead .
  6. Web site: Shooting for the record . 2011-08-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110831221742/http://www.burnabynow.com/health/Shooting+record/4096936/story.html . 2011-08-31 . dead .
  7. News: Ex-national team goalie turned 36-year-old rookie leading the way for UBC.
  8. Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4, p.118, Bob Ferguson, Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd., Markham, ON and Allston, MA,
  9. Web site: CHAMPIONSHIP RECAP: 'Birds take down McGill in quarters, now turn to Guelph. gothunderbirds.ca . March 17, 2016. 2021-05-17.
  10. News: UBC's best honoured at 95th annual Big Block Awards and Sports Hall of Fame Banquet. Aaron Martin (Sports Media and Information Assistant). gothunderbirds.ca. April 4, 2016 . May 4, 2021 . en.