Ashley Anne Messier is a Canadian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

defender, currently playing for Cornell University in the NCAA.

Career

From 2016 to 2019, she played for the Saskatoon Stars in the

Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League The Saskatchewan Female U18 AAA Hockey League (SFU18AAAHL), formerly the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League (SFMAAAHL), is a U-18 ice hockey league in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The league operates under the supervision of th ...

, winning the SFMAAAHL championship twice and being named the league's best defender in 2019. She was named top defender at the 2018 and 2019

Esso Cup The Esso Cup is the Canadian national women's under-18 ice hockey club championship, sponsored by Esso. It is an annual event, sanctioned by Hockey Canada, that takes place each April. The current champions are the Durham West Lightning, who wo ...

s. She then spent the 2019-20 season at Bishop Kearney High School in the United States, winning a state U19 title with the school's Selects Hockey Academy. She has committed to

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

for the 2020-21 season, studying in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the SC Johnson College of Business.

International career

She played for Canada at the

2020 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship The 2020 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship was the 13th IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in ice hockey. Top Division Match officials 9 referees and 9 linesmen were selected for the tournament. ;Referees * Henna Åberg * Darya Abrosimova * ...

in Slovakia, notching two points in five games as the country won silver. She had previously taken part in the American U18 Select Player Development Camp and played for the US in the U18 Summer Series against Canada before discovering that she was ineligible to continue with the American national team as she had never played for an American club.

Personal life

Messier is the daughter of former NHL player

Joby Messier Joby Messier (born March 2, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 25 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers between 1993 and 1995. Playing career Joby Messier was a member of the Notre Da ...

. She is a dual Canada-US citizen.

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* 2002 births Living people Canadian women's ice hockey defencemen Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan 21st-century Canadian sportswomen {{Canada-icehockey-defenceman-stub