Buckeyes Spooner and Bonhomme Named to Canada’s Four Nations Cup Roster – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/3/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey
Event featuring Canada, the U.S., Finland and Sweden held Nov. 4-9 in Lake Placid, N.Y.
COLUMBUS, Ohio Freshman forward Natalie Spooner and former defenseman Tessa Bonhomme of the Ohio State women’s hockey team have been named to the Canadian National Women’s Team for the 2008 Four Nations Cup. The tournament, featuring Canada, the U.S., Finland and Sweden, will be held Nov. 4-9 in Lake Placid, N.Y. Team Canada will be playing for its fifth-consecutive Four Nations title.
Spooner, a native of Scarborough, Ontario, is the youngest member of the Four Nations roster, turning 18 just before the tournament. This is the third Canadian team Spooner will be a member of in 2008. She also was named to the Canadian Under-22 team in August after attending several national camps this summer. Spooner was a member of the silver-medal winning Canadian Under-18 team in the inaugural IIHF World Under-18 Women’s Championships last January.
Bonhomme, of Sudbury, Ontario, is playing in her third Four Nations Cup. She helped Team Canada win gold in 2005 and ’06. She concluded her Ohio State career last season as one of the best to ever wear the Scarlet and Gray. Among her achievements, Bonhomme was the first Buckeye to be named an AHCA First Team All-America honoree as well as receive both the Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
Bonhomme was a member of the gold-medal winning Canadian National Women’s Team at the 2007 IIHF World Women’s Championships and participated in the Olympic Centralization Program in 2005-06. She is currently playing with the Calgary Oval X-treme of the Western Women’s Hockey League.
Canada will open the 2008 Four Nations Cup against Finland, Nov. 4, followed by a game against archrival United States, Nov. 6. The team wraps up round-robin play against Sweden, Nov. 7. The bronze and gold medal games will be played Nov. 9.
