Cayley Mercer

{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1994|01|18}}

| birth_place = Exeter, Ontario, Canada

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 8

| weight_lb = 132

| position = Forward

| shoots = Left

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| team =

| former_teams =

| played_for = Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays
Vanke Rays
Clarkson Golden Knights (NCAA)

| sex = f

| ntl_team = CAN

| career_start = 2008

| career_end =

}}

Cayley Mercer (born January 18, 1994) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player. She most recently played with the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) in the 2018–19 season.

Mercer played with the Clarkson Golden Knights women's ice hockey program from 2013 to 2017 and was a Top-3 Finalist for the 2017 Patty Kazmaier Award. Her career at Clarkson saw her win two Division 1 National Championships with the Golden Knights, and she graduated as the program's all-time leader in career goals scored, and second all time in career points.{{cite web |url=http://www.clarksonathletics.com/news/2017/3/2/womens-hockey-mercer-named-one-of-three-finalist-for-patty-kazmaier-award.aspx |title=Mercer Named One of Three Finalist for Patty Kazmaier Award |date=2 March 2017 |publisher=www.clarksonathletics.com |accessdate=August 22, 2017}}

At the 2017 CWHL Draft, she was the first-ever player selected by the Vanke Rays, taken seventh overall.{{cite web |url=http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/forward-courtney-turner-taken-first-pick-cwhl-draft/ |title=Forward Courtney Turner taken with first pick in CWHL draft |publisher=www.sportsnet.ca |accessdate=August 22, 2017}} In the 2017–18 CWHL season, Mercer finished second in the CWHL with 41 points in 28 games, behind only Kelli Stack.{{Cite web |url=http://www.timescolonist.com/kelli-stack-wins-angela-james-bowl-as-the-top-scorer-in-the-cwhl-1.23198366 |title=Kelli Stack wins Angela James Bowl as the top scorer in the CWHL |access-date=2018-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317102106/http://www.timescolonist.com/kelli-stack-wins-angela-james-bowl-as-the-top-scorer-in-the-cwhl-1.23198366 |archive-date=2018-03-17 |url-status=dead }}