Sarah Shantz-Smiley
{{Short description|Canadian-born Icelandic ice hockey player and coach}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| name = Sarah Shantz-Smiley
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1982|08|24}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| height_cm = 165
| weight_kg = 60
| position = Right wing
| shoots = Right
| league = IWHL
| team = Skautafélag Akureyrar
| sex = f
| ntl_team = Iceland
| former_teams = Windsor Lancers
| career_start = 2005
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Sarah Shantz-Smiley (born 24 August 1982) is a Canadian-born Icelandic ice hockey player and coach.{{cite news |author1=Albert Örn Eyþórsson |title=Stoltar skauta stelpurnar |url=https://timarit.is/page/3626684 |accessdate=8 June 2020 |work=24 Stundir |date=5 April 2008 |page=54 |language=Icelandic}} She has been a member of the Iceland women's national team since 2011,{{cite news |author1=Jóhann Ingi Hafþórsson |title=Okkur líður vel heima hjá okkur |work=Morgunblaðið |date=22 February 2020 |page=B2 |language=Icelandic}} the same year she was named the Icelandic Women's Ice Hockey Player of the Year.{{cite news |title=Björn og Sarah íshokkífólk ársins |url=https://www.ruv.is/frett/bjorn-og-sarah-ishokkifolk-arsins |accessdate=7 June 2020 |work=RÚV |date=20 December 2011 |language=Icelandic}}
Playing career
Having played for the University of Windsor in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (now U Sports), Shantz-Smiley graduated in 2005. Following university, she competed with the now-defunct Montreal Axion in the original National Women's Hockey League. During the 2005–06 NWHL season, Smiley appeared in 35 games, logging 4 goals (of which three were game-winning goals) and 4 assists for 8 points.{{cite web |title=Sarah Smiley - National Womens Hockey League - player page |url=http://pointstreak.com/prostats/playerpage.html?playerid=658228&seasonid=1027 |accessdate=7 June 2020 |work=pointstreak.com}}
In 2006, she signed on to play in the Icelandic Women's Hockey League.{{cite news |author1=Mark Staffieri |title=Sarah Smiley A Hockey Hero in Her Second Home of Iceland |url=https://womenshockeylife.com/sarah-smiley-a-hockey-hero-in-her-second-home-of-iceland/ |accessdate=7 June 2020 |work=Women's Hockey Life |date=26 October 2015}}
In 2008, Shantz-Smiley would play for a club team in Australia. Smiley has also played for the Iceland national women's team competing in Group B at the 2012 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II in Seoul, South Korea. During Iceland's first game of the event, Shantz-Smiley earned an assist on a goal scored by Birna Baldursdóttir.{{cite web |title=ISL - BEL 2 - 1 |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/281/IHW281901_74_3_0.pdf |work=IIHF |access-date=13 March 2022}}
Coaching career
In December 2006, Shantz-Smiley was hired as the head coach of the Iceland women's national team.{{cite news |title=Shantz-Smiley ráðinn þjálfari kvennalandsliðs |url=https://www.ihi.is/is/frettir/shantz-smiley-radinn-thjalfari-kvennalandslids-1250 |accessdate=8 June 2020 |work=ihi.is |date=4 December 2006 |language=Icelandic}} In 2008, she became the first woman to be the head coach of a men's Ice Hockey team in Iceland when she was hired as the head coach of Skautafélag Akureyrar men's team.{{cite news |author1=Þröstur Ernir Viðarsson |title=Fyrsta konan til að þjálfa karlalið í íshokkí á Íslandi |url=https://www.vikudagur.is/is/frettir/fyrsta-konan-til-ad-thjalfa-karlalid-i-ishokki-a-islandi |accessdate=8 June 2020 |work=Vikudagur |date=27 September 2008 |language=Icelandic}} Shantz-Smiley also spent team coaching a youth team in the community of Akureyri in 2010.{{cite news |author1=Arndís Bergsdóttir |title=Börnin okkar læri að elska sjálf sig |url=https://timarit.is/page/6059887 |accessdate=7 June 2020 |work=Akureyri |date=17 October 2013 |page=20 |language=Icelandic}}{{cite news |author1=Martin Merk |title=Iceland's late love for hockey |url=http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4890&cHash=13d87b06102ec1c4a034b69cf094db8e |access-date=7 June 2020 |date=22 August 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304135858/http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4890&cHash=13d87b06102ec1c4a034b69cf094db8e |work=IIHF |archivedate=4 March 2016}}
In 2011, Iceland was ranked 29th in the world,{{cite news |author1=John Garinger |title=For the love of the game: – The Pro & the Amateur |url=http://sxfreepress.com/?p=2671 |accessdate=7 June 2020 |work=Essex Free Press |date=15 March 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114610/http://sxfreepress.com/?p=2671 |archivedate=4 March 2016}} and was the host country for the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship Division IV. During that same year, Smiley worked with Deirdre Norman from the Women of Winter hockey organization in Toronto and helped launch a women's division in the Iceland International Ice Hockey Tournament.
Personal
References
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External links
- {{Icehockeystats|elite=392714|euro=113143}}
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Category:Canadian emigrants to Iceland
Category:Canadian women's ice hockey forwards
Category:Icelandic ice hockey forwards
Category:Montreal Axion players
Category:Ice hockey people from Toronto