Jennifer Lynn Schmidgall-Potter (born January 12, 1979) is an American

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player. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a

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at the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events ...

, silver medals at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...

and

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, and a

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at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics (), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter O ...

. After, she plays for the

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of the

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, where she won the league championship and was named MVP for the 2008–09 season. She was selected to the 2010 US Olympic team and was the only mother on the team.

Playing career

NCAA

Her NCAA career included three years at the

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, and one year at the

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. Potter set an NCAA record (since tied) for most goals in one game with 6. This was accomplished on December 18, 2002 versus St. Cloud State. Potter is the all-time leading scorer in Bulldogs history and was named to the WCHA All-Decade team in 2009. She was a four-time All-American. On January 21, 2011, Jenny Potter, along with Bulldog alumni Caroline Ouellette and Maria Rooth took part in a ceremonial faceoff to mark the first ever game at Amsoil Arena.

Team USA

Schmidgall-Potter has been on the US Women’s team since 1997, competing at three Winter Olympics, and at seven World Championships, winning gold medals in 2005, 2008, and 2009, and four silver medals in 1999, 2001, 2004, and 2007. As a 19-year-old, Schmidgall-Potter was the second youngest player on the 1998 U.S. Olympic Team. In 1999, she led the U.S. in scoring at the IIHF Women’s World Championships with 12 points in five games as the U.S. won the Silver Medal. By winning the silver medal at the 2010 Olympics, Potter became the most decorated Olympic medalist in Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs hockey history.

Professional hockey

Minnesota Whitecaps

With the

, Potter was part of the first US based team to win the

Clarkson Cup The Clarkson Cup () is an ice hockey trophy awarded to Canada's national women's champions. Commissioned by former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, the trophy was first unveiled in July 2006 when Clarkson ceremoniously presented it to the Ca ...

. With the Clarkson Cup victory, Potter became an unofficial member of the Triple Gold Club (women are not yet recognized by the IIHF), as she became one of only three women to win the Clarkson Cup, a gold medal in ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and a gold medal at the IIHF women's world hockey championships.

Boston Blades

In the summer of 2014, Potter was selected in the first round of the 2014 CWHL Draft to the Boston Blades. She played less than a full season for the Blades, while juggling coaching duties at Trinity College.

Coaching career

In the summer of 2013 she was named head coach of the women's hockey team at Trinity College and retained that position for two seasons.

NCAA

In spring 2015, Potter was named the third head coach in the history of the

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program, replacing Nate Hanrahan. She was released from the program in August 2016.

Career stats

WWHL

Awards and honors

*Directorate Award, Best Forward, 1999 IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships *

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(WCHA) Player of the Year, 2000 *All-WCHA First Team, 2000 *Led NCAA in scoring, 2000, (41 goals, 52 assists, 93 points) *WCHA Team of the Decade (2000’s) *Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Media All-Star Team *

Triple Gold Club The Triple Gold Club is the group of ice hockey players and coaches who have won an Ice hockey at the Olympic Games, Olympic Games gold medal, a Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup, the championship t ...

(unofficial) *2010 Bob Allen Women's Player of the Year Award

Personal

Schmidgall-Potter was married in 2001 and is now a mother of 2. She took off the 2000–2001 season to give birth to her first child, daughter Madison. She delivered her second child, son Cullen in 2007. Jenny Schmidgall-Potter is from Edina High School in Minnesota. With her husband, Rob Potter, she runs a summer training camp called "Potter’s Pure Hockey." Cullen plays

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at Arizona State.

References

External links

U.S. Olympic Team bio
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