Fiona Lesley Smith (born October 31, 1973, in

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, and raised in

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) is a Canadian women's Olympic

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player. She was affiliated with

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. In 1998 she helped

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win the silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano.

Career

Smith was originally a figure skater, as there were no opportunities for girls to play hockey. She captained the boys youth hockey team in

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before joining the first Saskatchewan women's hockey team to compete at the Canada Winter Games at the age of 14. In 1999, she was nominated for the Saskatchewan Female Athlete of the Year award. In 2002, she would retire from international hockey. She was one of the torch bearers for the

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. In 2012, she was named to the

Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dako ...

Post-playing Career

As part of the

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Ambassador and Mentor Program, Smith was a Hockey Canada athlete ambassador that travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia to participate in the 2011 IIHF High Performance Women's Camp from July 4–12. She would then work with the German national women's hockey team for two and a half years as an IIHF ambassador.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith-Bell, Fiona 1973 births Living people Canadian women's ice hockey defencemen Edmonton Chimos players Ice hockey people from Saskatoon Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Canada Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Canada 20th-century Canadian sportswomen