Sarah Parsons is an American 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 won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

. She is now a member of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

's class of 2010.

High school

She was captain of the varsity hockey team and the team had a 25-2-0 record at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. She was part of a girls hockey run that has won 11 straight ISL championships. She owns the school record for points in hockey. While in high school, she played for the U.S. Women’s Under-22 Team in 2003 and 2004. Besides hockey, Parsons also participated in soccer and is the school's record holder for most goals in a career in soccer. Her soccer team won a New England Class A Championship in 2004.

USA Hockey

Parsons was supposed to enroll at Dartmouth in 2005, but delayed it so she could participate at the 2006 Winter Olympics. As a member of the U.S. National Team, she was the youngest player on the team. She was 17.

Dartmouth College

As a freshman, Parsons had an impact. She appeared in 32 games and led the Big Green in points (50 – ranked eighth in the NCAA), assists (36 – ranked fourth in the NCAA) and plus/minus (+29). In addition, she led all ECAC rookies in scoring. Her average of 1.56 points per game ranked second in the NCAA among all rookies. Parsons participated in the ECAC Championship game. Against St. Lawrence, she scored a goal and registered an assist. In addition, she had seven game scoring streaks twice during the season. For her efforts, Parsons earned several accolades. She was ECAC Rookie of the Year and first team all-league. Her teammates voted her the Big Green Rookie of the Year.

During her senior season, Sarah Parsons played with a leg injury, but managed to appeared in 30 games. Despite the injury, Parsons scored a career high in goals with 17. Added to her 15 assists, she finished the season with 32 points, respectively. Of her 17 goals, eight were scored on the power play, ranking second overall on the Big Green. Dating back to the previous season, Parsons entered the season with a 12 game scoring streak. In her second game of the 08-09 season, her streak was snapped against the St. Lawrence Skating Saints. On January 31, 2009, she became the 29th Dartmouth player to notch 100 career points.

Dartmouth

Year	Games Played	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM
2006-07	32	14	36	50	6
2007-08	31	15	19	34	14
2008-09	30	17	15	32	12
2009-10	26	18	20	38	14

Awards and honors

• All-ISL 2002-2005
• ISL’s most valuable player from 2002–2005
• Prep school athlete of the year (awarded by the Boston Globe)
• Winner of the Noble Shield Award given to the most respected athlete at her school
• Awarded the John Carlton Memorial Award by the Boston Bruins
• Big Green Rookie of the Year (2007)
• ECAC Rookie of the Year (2007)
• ECAC first team all-league (2007)
• ECAC Scoring Leader among rookies (2007)
• ECAC Hockey Tournament's Most Outstanding Player (2009)

External links

• Sarah Parsons' U.S. Olympic Team bio
• Sarah Parson's Settles In — Dartmouth Life