Kelly Murray (born April 26, 1994) is a Canadian

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Playing career

During 2012 to 2014, Murray played

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with the

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program in the

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and

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conferences of the

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. Injuries limited her number of games played and she appeared in only 37 games across two seasons with the Big Red, amassing a total of 12 points on a goal and 11 assists. Murray left Cornell to join the UBC Thunderbirds women's ice hockey program of

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(CIS; renamed U Sports in 2016) ahead of the 2014–15 season. She played for the team until 2017, serving as an

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for the team and recording 52 points in 80 games. She was named to the 2017 USports women's all-star team. She was drafted 12th overall by the

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in the 2017 CWHL draft. She signed her first professional contract with the Inferno ahead of the 2017–18 season. She would win the

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with the team the following year. After the collapse of the CWHL in May 2019, she left North America to sign with

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in Sweden. She served as an alternate captain for the team in her first SDHL season, during which she scored 13 points in 34 games as SDE made the playoffs for the first time in history. She scored her first SDHL goal in a 6–0 victory against

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on November 17, 2019.

International

Murray represented Canada in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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. She contributed 5 assists in five games to Canada's silver medal effort.

Personal life

Her sister, Eden Murray, also played professionally with the Inferno. Her uncle,

Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professio ...

, is a former NHL head coach, her cousins

Brady Murray Braden Murray (born August 17, 1984) is a Canadian born- American former professional ice hockey forward. He last played for HC Lugano of the Swiss National League A (NLA). He was selected 152nd overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Los ...

and Jordy Murray both played professional hockey in Switzerland, and her cousin Sarah Murray was head coach of the unified Korean team at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Kelly 1994 births Living people Calgary Inferno players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Medicine Hat SDE Hockey players UBC Thunderbirds ice hockey players Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey FISU World University Games silver medalists for Canada University of British Columbia alumni