Gillian Mary Apps (born November 2, 1983) is a women's

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player. Apps was a member of the Canadian National Hockey Team that won back to back gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. As a

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major at

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, United States, Apps was a member of her college's ice hockey team, competing in ECAC women's ice hockey. She was a member of the

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, winning gold medals at the

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, the

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, Canada and the

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. She was also a winner of gold medals with Team Canada at the 2004 and 2007 World Ice Hockey Championships, and silver medals in that event in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013. Apps was a member of the

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in the

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until 2015 at which point she announced her retirement from professional women's hockey. Apps resides in

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Playing career

* 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. In 2001–02, Apps was a member of the Beatrice Aeros and won the Ontario senior women's hockey championship. * At the first National Women's Under-18 Hockey Challenge in 2001 at

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, 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. * 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

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. * 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. * 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. 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

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with 255. 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.

Coaching career

In the autumn of 2016, Apps joined Katie King's coaching staff with the

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program.

Career stats

Dartmouth

Hockey Canada

Awards and honours

*Honorable mention All-Ivy selection (2003) *ECAC Hockey League Player of the Week on Nov 3, 2003 *ECAC Hockey League Player of the Week on Nov 24, 2003 *Named All-Ivy League second team (2004) *Named Honorable mention All-ECAC Hockey League (2004) *2006–07 ECAC Coaches Preseason All-League Selection *2006–07 ECAC Media Preseason All-League Selection *ECAC Player of the Year (2007) *ECAC First-Team all-league honors (2007) *New England Hockey Writers Most Valuable Player (2007) *Top 10 Finalist for 2007 Patty Kazmaier Award

Personal life

Apps attended William Berczy Public School in

. 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. Prior to the 2010 Olympics, Apps worked at the

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in an Olympians program, where she was called upon to meet clients or give motivational speeches to employees. Apps is the granddaughter of

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professional

player for the

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from 1936 to 1948, and

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member

Syl Apps Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps (January 18, 1915 – December 24, 1998), was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, an Olympic pole vaulter and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in ...

, and the daughter of

retired

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Syl Apps Jr., who played 10 seasons in the

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for the

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and

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. Her brother Syl Apps III was signed as a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs on July 22, 1999, although he never played a game with the Maple Leafs. Her sister, Amy was a member of the Canadian National women's

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team and an OUA All Star in 1998 and 1999. Her cousin, rower Darren Barber, won a gold medal in the men's eight at the

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as a member of the Canadian team.Profile: Darren Barber
''sports.reference.com'' (Retrieved on December 12, 2008) Barber also competed at the

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in Atlanta, where he finished 4th. Apps's sister-in-law is Meaghan Sittler, whose father

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competed in the NHL. She is the aunt to a nephew named Sawyer. On April 17, 2012, Apps (along with Meghan Agosta,

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, Courtney Birchard, and head coach Dan Church) took part in the opening face off of the playoff game between the

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and the

at ScotiaBank Place. On September 22, 2018, Apps married American women's hockey player Meghan Duggan. Their son, George, was born on February 29, 2020. They had a daughter, Olivia, in October 2021. Their third child, daughter Sophie, was born on December 31, 2023.

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