Michelle "Shelly" Picard (born May 27, 1993) is a retired American

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player who played

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for the

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. Picard also played for the

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and

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. She later served as deputy commissioner of the

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from 2019 to 2021.

Playing career

NCAA

The first point of her NCAA career came on October 29, 2011, when she assisted on the game-winning goal against the

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. She

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her 2013–14 season with the Crimson to play in the 2014 Olympics under her Harvard head coach,

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. She returned for her junior 2014–15 season and was named

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, leading the team to the 2015 national championship game where they lost to the

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. She was also captain in her senior 2015–16 season for the Crimson.

USA Hockey

She first made the U.S. women's national under-18 team for the

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, where the team won the silver medal. The next year, Picard was named the

of the gold medal-winning U.S. U18 team in the 2011 Championship. Later that year, she made her first appearance with the senior team at the 2011 4 Nations Cup. She was a member of the

in five

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s from 2012 to 2019, as well as the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

NWHL

After leaving Harvard, Picard signed with the

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in 2016 for the second season of

. She played three seasons with the team, later rebranded as the

, and participated in the

3rd NWHL All-Star Game The 3rd NWHL All-Star Game took place on February 11, 2018 at TRIA Rink in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A skills competition was held the day prior on February 10, 2018. Brittany Ott of the Boston Pride and Amanda Leveille of the Buffalo Beauts ser ...

. She retired from playing in 2019 and joined the league as deputy commissioner and director of player development. In 2021, she left the league to pursue other opportunities and was replaced by Lisa Haley as director of player development.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Picard, Michelle 1993 births Living people 21st-century American sportswomen American women's ice hockey defensemen Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey players Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players from Massachusetts Isobel Cup champions Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Metropolitan Riveters players New York Riveters players Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey Sportspeople from Fall River, Massachusetts Sportspeople from Taunton, Massachusetts