Nancy Drolet
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Nancy Drolet is a Canadian ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player. She is the daughter of Mr. Denis Drolet and Mrs. Viviane Dubé. She was named Sport Federation Canada Junior Athlete of the Year in 1992.

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
Vancouver Griffins
The Vancouver Griffins were a professional women's ice hockey team in the National Women's Hockey League . The team played its home games in New Westminster's Queens Park Arena, in Vancouver, Canada.-History:...

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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
Quebec Avalanche
The Quebec Avalanche was a National Women's Hockey League team located in Laval, Quebec, Canada. Before they were previously known as Sainte-Julie Pantheres and Metropol Le Cheyenne...

  and scored 29 goals and added 17 assists. She played also for Vancouver Griffins
Vancouver Griffins
The Vancouver Griffins were a professional women's ice hockey team in the National Women's Hockey League . The team played its home games in New Westminster's Queens Park Arena, in Vancouver, Canada.-History:...

 (2001–02 and 2002–03).

Personal life

In 2002, she came out
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 as a lesbian
Lesbian
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 In 2009, she married her long-time partner Nathalie Allaire in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

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