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Iya Gavrilova
Ия Гаврилова
Born (1987-09-03) 3 September 1987 (age 37)
Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union
Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight 143 lb (65 kg; 10 st 3 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
PWHPA team
Former teams		 Calgary
National team  Russia
Playing career 1998–present
Medal record
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Canada
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Canada
Winter Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2015 Spain

Iya Viktorovna Gavrilova (Russian: Ия Викторовна Гаврилова; born 3 September 1987) is a Russian ice hockey player, currently affiliated with the Calgary section of the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA). She was a member of the Russian national team during 2003 to 2016 and represented Russia at the Winter Olympic Games in 2006, 2010, and 2014, and at eleven IIHF Women's World Championships, winning bronze medals at the tournaments in 2013 and 2016 At the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, Gavrilova was part of Russia's gold medal-winning team, the first team to defeat Canada in FISU women's ice hockey history.[1]

Playing career

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Gavrilova’s ice hockey career started in 1998, in the Russian Women's Hockey League with Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk. She began playing with SKIF Moscow in 2002 and later played with Tornado Moscow Region during the 2006–07, 2008–09, and 2009–10 seasons.

She joined the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey program during the 2007–08 season, tallying 19 goals and 22 assists for 41 points in 26 games; she ranked second on the team for points per game with an exceptional 1.58 in her rookie campaign. With the Bulldogs, she played alongside stars of a number of national teams, including Haley Irwin and Myriam Trépanier of Canada, Jocelyne Larocque and Meghan Duggan of the United States, Saara Niemi (née Tuominen) and Heidi Pelttari of Finland, and Elin Holmlöv and Kim Martin Hasson of Sweden, and Sarah Murray, the future head coach of the Korea women's unified ice hockey team.

Gavrilova also played with the Minnesota Whitecaps of the Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL) during the 2010–11 season.

Calgary Dinos

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She enrolled at the University of Calgary, where she helped lead the Calgary Dinos women's ice hockey team to a CIS championship in her first season. Gavrilova was the recipient of the 2015 Brodrick Trophy, awarded to the Most Outstanding Player in CIS women's ice hockey. During the 2014–15 season, Gavrilova led the CIS in goals scored and plus/minus rating.

CWHL

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Gavrilova was selected in the third round of the 2016 CWHL Draft by the Calgary Inferno.[2] Making her debut with the Calgary Inferno on 29 October 2016, in a contest against the Boston Blades, Gavrilova would also achieve her first multi-point performance with the club in her debut. Starting with a second period assist on a goal by Jillian Saulnier, she would score her first CWHL goal later in the period against Lauren Dahm.[3] Gaining the assists on said goal were Meghan Mikkelson and Hayeligh Cudmore. In a two-game exhibition series against the Japan national women's ice hockey team, Gavrilova scored two goals in the second game, gaining Player of the Game honors.

Personal life

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During her college ice hockey career, Gavrilova completed a bachelor's degree in accounting while from the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) and a BA in economics from the University of Calgary (U of C). She works as an analyst at Crescent Point Energy in Calgary, Alberta.

Career statistics

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NCAA

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Note: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes; GW = Game winning goals; PPL = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals

Season GP G A Pts PIM GW PPL SHG
2007–08 26 19 22 41 43 7 5 0

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WWHL

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Season GP G A Pts PIM GW PPL SHG
2010–11 3 1 4 5 0 0 1 0

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Olympics

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Event GP G A Pts PIM +/- Shots
2006 5 2 0 2 14 −2 11
2010 5 2 0 2 6 −2 26

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CIS

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Season GP G A Pts PIM +/-'
2014–15[7] 37 21 16 37 18 +35

CWHL

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Year GP G A PTS PIM PPG SHG GWG
2016–17 18 11 8 19 6 3 1 1

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Awards and honors

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  • 2012 Canada West First Team All-Star[9]
  • 2015 Brodrick Trophy winner[10]
  • 2015 Canada West Conference Player of the Year[11]
  • 2014–15 CIS First Team All-Star

References

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  1. ^ "Granada 2015". www.granada2015.org. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Calgary Inferno select 12 players in 2016 CWHL Draft". Calgary Flames. 22 August 2016. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Game recap". CWHL. 29 October 2016. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs Women's Hockey 2007–2008 Statistics: Overall". USCHO.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Iya Gavrilova Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  7. ^ "Iya Gavrilova – #8 – F – Calgary – U SPORTS – English". en.cis-sic.ca. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Iya Gavrilova". CWHL. n.d. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  9. ^ "2011–12 Canada West women's hockey major awards and all-stars announced – U SPORTS – English". english.cis-sic.ca. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  10. ^ "CIS women's hockey: Calgary's Gavrilova named player of the year – U SPORTS – English". english.cis-sic.ca. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  11. ^ "Women's Hockey: Calgary's Iya Gavrilova wins MVP". 20 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
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