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Lisa-Marie Breton-Lebreux (born August 3, 1977) is a Canadian
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coach and retired player. Her
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career was played with the Concordia Stingers women's ice hockey program and she went on to play in the Canadian
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(NWHL) and was a co-founder of the
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(CWHL), in which she was both a player and coach. Breton also played
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at the international level as a member of the Canadian women's national inline hockey team that captured gold at the 2005 FIRS Inline Hockey World Championships in
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. She has served as the strength and conditioning coach for
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varsity teams since the 2000s.


Playing career

Breton began playing
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at age six. She attended Cégep de Trois-Rivières and played three seasons with the UQTR Patriotes of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) as part of a league made up of other cégeps and universities throughout the province. Breton was invited to the 2000–01 Hockey Canada National Development Camp.


Team Quebec

At fifteen years of age, she was recruited by Team Quebec at the junior level and played in the first ever National Junior Championship for hockey in 1993. The team won a silver medal in a loss to Team Ontario. Breton represented Team Quebec in numerous tournaments. In 2000, she played with Kim St. Pierre and Nancy Drolet as part of Team Quebec at the 2000 Esso Nationals. Her club team, the Montreal Axion, earned the right to represent Quebec as the club competed at the 2005 Esso Nationals.


Concordia Stingers

Breton joined Concordia for the 1997–98 season, and went to five National championships with the Stingers. In her rookie year, the CIS recognized women's hockey. The Stingers were granted their first national championship, which was held at Concordia. Breton was part of the squad that won the 1999 National Championship, but her club was beaten in the 2000 semi-finals by the University of Alberta by a 4-3 tally. That year, the Stingers took third place. In the 2000-01 season, Breton led the Quebec Student Sports Federation (QSSF) with eight goals and six assists in just six games. Breton was an All-Canadian in 2000-01 season with the Concordia University Stingers, a team that she captained during her last two seasons. In her university hockey career, she participated in five Canadian Interuniversity Sport Championship finals. with the and Montreal Axion, of the assistant coach with
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(formerly Montreal Stars). For the 2010–11 Montreal CWHL season, Breton is the team captain.


NWHL

Breton played the 2002–03 season with the Avalanche du Québec (Quebec Avalanche) of the NWHL. In 2006, Breton was part of the Montreal Axion club that beat the Brampton Thunder by a 1-0 mark to claim the NWHL championship Cup. Breton scored the game-winning goal. The stick she used to score the game-winning goal was given to the
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.


CWHL

Breton was one of the six founders of the Canadian Women's Hockey League, alongside Jennifer Botterill, Allyson Fox, Kathleen Kauth, Kim McCullough, and Sami Jo Small. The players worked with a group of volunteer business people to form the CWHL by following the example of the National Lacrosse League. The league would be responsible for all travel, ice rental and uniform costs, plus some equipment. Breton would become the general manager and head of public relations for the Stars de Montréal (Montreal Stars). On March 19, 2009, Breton was part of the Stars team that played for the
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for the first time. Montreal beat the
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to claim the Cup. Former Canadian Governor General
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was on hand to present the trophy to team captain Breton. Breton was part of an initiative to raise money for breast cancer research. On January 29, 2011, the Montreal Stars wore pink jerseys as they played the Boston Blades as part of a fundraiser. Breton's mother, Johanne Breton, survived the disease. During the 2010-11 season, Breton scored 8 goals and added 3 assists. She captained the Stars to their second Clarkson Cup championship win in three years. On January 11, 2014, Breton, a CWHL co-founder registered the 100th point of her career. On December 13, 2014, Breton was selected to participate in the
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. Suiting up for Team Red, she would score a goal in the third period on Team White's Geneviève Lacasse with Blake Bolden and
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assisting on said goal. The final goal of her CWHL career took place in a 5–2 win against the Calgary Inferno on February 1, 2015. Scoring a third period goal against Camille Trautman, the assists on said goal were credited to Fannie Desforges and Chelsey Saunders.


Coaching career

Breton joined the coaching team of head coach Les Lawton as an assistant coach to the Concordia Stingers women's ice hockey program in the 2002–03 season. Her Montreal Stars teammate, Nathalie Déry, was an assistant coach for the Stingers alongside Breton from the 2009–10 season through the 2011–12 season.


Career statistics


Regular season and playoffs

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Awards and honours

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Personal life

Breton graduated from
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with a BA in sociology. She is also the strength and conditioning coach for the men and women's rugby, women's soccer and women's hockey team.


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External links

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an interview with CKAC Sports
January 22, 2011 at Montreal {{DEFAULTSORT:Breton, Lisa-Marie 1977 births Living people Canadian women's ice hockey forwards Canadian women's national inline hockey team players Clarkson Cup champions Ice hockey people from Montreal Les Canadiennes de Montreal players Montreal Axion players