Gillian Mary Apps (born November 2, 1983) is a women's ice hockey player. Apps was a member of the Canadian National Hockey Team that won back to back gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games.
She graduated from Havergal College in Toronto in 2001, and played for the Toronto Aeros. During the 2000–01 NWHL season, Apps played with the Beatrice Aeros and finished tied for fifth in league scoring with 42 points.[2] In 2001–02, Apps was a member of the Beatrice Aeros and won the Ontario senior women's hockey championship.[3]
At the first National Women's Under-18 Hockey Challenge in 2001 at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Apps was the captain of the gold medal-winning Ontario Red squad. She made Canada's national women's team only months later, as an 18-year-old.[4]
As a freshman with the Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey program in 2002, Apps accumulated 22 goals, 13 assists and 35 points. Apps ranked fourth on the Big Green in scoring. She was on an All-Freshman line with Tiffany Hagge and Cherie Piper.[5]
On October 21, 2012, Apps would score the game-winning goal in a 4–3 overtime win against the Toronto Furies. The goal provided Florence Schelling with the first win of her CWHL career, which was also her CWHL debut.[6]
On August 30, 2015, Apps completed the Muskoka Ironman triathlon in just under 15 hours. In September 2015 she retired from the Canadian women's team, after sitting out the 2014–2015 season from both the national team and her CWHL team, the Brampton Thunder.[4] Apps finished her national team career with 50 goals and 50 assists for an even 100 points in 164 games, and ranks second all-time on the Canadian team in penalty minutes behind Hayley Wickenheiser with 255.[7] She is involved with She Swings She Scores, a joint initiative between the Ontario Women's Hockey Association and the Golf Association of Ontario to encourage girls to take up golf as well as hockey.
Apps attended William Berczy Public School in Unionville, Ontario. Apps also participates in snowboarding, wakeboarding, golf, and soccer. She grew up playing girls hockey in the Greater Toronto Area, and attended Havergal College where she excelled as a female athlete.[12] Prior to the 2010 Olympics, Apps worked at the Royal Bank of Canada in an Olympians program, where she was called upon to meet clients or give motivational speeches to employees.[13]
On September 22, 2018, Apps married American women's hockey player Meghan Duggan.[19] Their son, George, was born on February 29, 2020.[20] They had a daughter, Olivia, in October 2021.[21] Their third child, daughter Sophie, was born on December 31, 2023.[22]
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^"Game Summary". CWHL. October 21, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2016.[permanent dead link]
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^"ECAC Hockey League Announces Women's Preseason All-League Teams". ECAChokcey.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
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^Kevin McGran (February 4, 2010). "Gillian Apps born with hockey in her veins". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
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^"Agosta: Canada soaking up gold medal victory". NHL.com. Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
^"Olympic ice hockey rivals Meghan Duggan, Gillian Apps get married". ESPN. September 26, 2018. Archived from the original on October 5, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
^Emily Kaplan (October 13, 2020). "meghan duggan retiring". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2020. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
^Prewitt, Alex (February 7, 2022). "For Married Pairs of Ex-Players, the U.S.–Canada Women's Hockey Rivalry Is Uniquely Complicated". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
^"Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
External linksedit
Dartmouth College biography for Gillian Apps
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation biography for Gillian Apps