{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | image = Cherie Piper (3393024112).jpg | alt = | caption = | image_size = 220 | position = Forward | shoots = Right | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 6 | weight_lb = 168 | team = Brampton Thunder | former_teams = Mississauga Chiefs<br />Dartmouth Big Green | league = CWHL | sex = f | ntl_team = CAN | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|6|29}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | career_start = 2001 | career_end = 2013 | website = | medaltemplates={{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }} {{MedalSport | Women's ice hockey}} {{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}} {{MedalGold | 2002 Salt Lake City | Tournament}} {{MedalGold | 2006 Turin | Tournament}} {{MedalGold | 2010 Vancouver | Tournament}} {{MedalCompetition | IIHF World Women's Championships}} {{MedalGold | 2004 Canada | Tournament}} {{MedalSilver | 2005 Sweden | Tournament}} {{MedalSilver | 2008 China | Tournament}} {{MedalSilver | 2011 Switzerland | Tournament}} {{MedalSport | Women's 4 Nations Cup}} {{MedalGold | 2010 Canada | Tournament}} {{MedalSport | Women's inline hockey}} {{MedalCompetition| FIRS World Championship}} {{MedalGold| 2002 United States|}} }}

'''Cherie Piper''' (born June 29, 1981) is a Canadian former ice hockey player residing in Markham, Ontario. She was a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and played for the Brampton Thunder of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). Piper has won three Olympic gold medals with the Canadian national team in 2002, 2006 and 2010, as well as one world championship title in 2004.

==Playing career== In 1999, she competed for Ontario in the Canada Winter Games. During the 2000–01 NWHL season, Cherie Piper played with the Beatrice Aeros and finished seventh in league scoring with 37 points.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.canoe.com/HockeyNWHL/topscorers.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010424045948/http://www.canoe.com/HockeyNWHL/topscorers.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 24, 2001 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-06-29 }}</ref>

She played four seasons at Dartmouth College between 2002 and 2007, scoring 60 goals and 165 assists in 99 games for the Big Green.<ref name="Dartmouth">{{Cite web |url=http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=648518 |title=Cherie Piper player profile |publisher=Dartmouth College |access-date=2010-01-25 |archive-date=2015-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015220032/http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=648518 |url-status=live }}</ref> She missed the end of the 2003–04 season to play with the Canadian national team at the 2004 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships where she won a gold medal.<ref name="CTVOlympics" /> Piper was named a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2005. She led Dartmouth in scoring that season with 60 points.<ref name="Dartmouth" />

At Hockey Canada's 2008 National Championships, she was the double overtime hero as the Mississauga Chiefs won 3-2 over the Brampton Thunder.<ref>"Mississauga, Manitoba capture women's crowns" ''The Ottawa Citizen'', March 16, 2008, p. D3.</ref> She also scored the 2-2 equalizer in the third period.

== International play == She competed for Canada's Under 22 team from 1999 to 2001.<ref>Canadian Gold 2010, Andrew Podnieks, p. 164, Fenn Publishing, Toronto, Canada, {{ISBN|978-1-55168-384-3}}</ref>

Piper was a member of the Under-22 team in 2002 when she was named to the Olympic team for 2002 Salt Lake City Games ahead of veteran Nancy Drolet as part of a move to shake up a Canadian team that had lost eight consecutive games to the United States. It was a decision that shocked other members of the team.<ref>{{cite web |last=Francis |first=Eric |url=http://slam.canoe.com/2002GamesColumnistsPreGames/francis_jan16-sun.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311160030/http://slam.canoe.com/2002GamesColumnistsPreGames/francis_jan16-sun.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |title=Sniper's release shocks players |work=Calgary Sun |date=2002-01-16 |access-date=2010-01-25 }}</ref> She recorded a goal and an assist in her first game of the Olympics,<ref>{{cite news |last=Hunter |first=Paul |title=Piper makes a stellar debut |work=Toronto Star |date=2002-02-12 |page=C02}}</ref> and finished the tournament with five points in five games in helping Canada win the gold medal.<ref name="CTVOlympics">{{cite web |url=http://www.ctvolympics.ca/team-canada/athletes/athlete=2228/results/index.html |title=Cherie Piper profile |publisher=CTV |access-date=2010-01-25 |archive-date=2023-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204211703/https://www.tsn.ca/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

She won a second Olympic gold medal in 2006 and her 15 points was second to Hayley Wickenheiser (17).<ref>{{cite book |last=Podnieks |first=Andrew |title=Canada's Olympic Hockey History 1920–2010 |year=2009 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadasolympicho0000podn |url-access=registration |publisher=Fenn Publishing |location=Toronto |page=[https://archive.org/details/canadasolympicho0000podn/page/242 242] |isbn=978-1-55168-323-2}}</ref>

A knee injury in her senior year at Dartmouth forced her off of the national team for over a year and caused her to miss the 2007 World Championships.<ref name="Battle">{{cite web |url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=497419 |title=Olympian Cherie Piper battles for her job on Canadian women's hockey team |publisher=Canadian Press |date=2009-08-31 |access-date=2010-01-25 |archive-date=2011-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604015613/http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=497419 |url-status=live }}</ref> She rejoined the team in time for the 2008 tournament where she won her second silver medal.<ref name="CTVOlympics" /> She was cut from the 2009 team,<ref name="Battle" /> but gained a spot on the 2010 Olympic team, winning a third consecutive gold medal.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://calgaryherald.com/sports/2010wintergames/Team+Canada+women+hockey+team+roster+unveiled+Calgary/2367745/story.html |title=Team Canada women's hockey team roster unveiled in Calgary |work=Calgary Herald |date=2009-12-21 |access-date=2010-01-25}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

===Other=== Piper was also a member of the Canada women's national inline hockey team, winning a gold medal at the 2002 FIRS Inline Hockey World Championships.

==Personal== Piper was born June 29, 1981, in Toronto, Ontario, the third child of Alan and Christine Piper. She has two older brothers, Michael and Stephen, and followed her brothers in taking up the sport.<ref name="Battle" /> She played her minor hockey in the Scarborough Hockey Association with the Scarborough Sabres before moving to the Metropolitan Toronto Hockey League with the Scarborough Young Bruins. She was educated in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough. Her middle school was Henry Kelsey Senior Public School and her elementary school was Alexmuir Junior Public School.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} Piper graduated from Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute and majored in sociology at Dartmouth.<ref name="Dartmouth" />

On June 7, 2018, Cherie married long-time beau, Joe Butkevich, in a ceremony at Memorial Gardens in Butkevich's hometown of North Bay, Ontario.

==Career statistics==

===International=== {| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" ID="Table3" style="text-align:center; width:50em" |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Year ! Team ! Comp ! rowspan="100" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp; ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2002 | Canada | Oly | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |- | 2004 | Canada | WC | 5 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2005 | Canada | WC | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |- | 2006 | Canada | Oly | 5 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 0 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2008 | Canada | WC | 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 |- |2010 |Canada |Oly |5 |5 |5 |10 |0 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2011 | Canada | WC | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! ! Totals ! ! 35 ! 24 ! 29 ! 53 ! 8 |}

===Dartmouth=== {|class="wikitable" width="80%" |- align="center" style="background:green;color:#FFFFFF;" | '''Year''' || '''Games Played''' || '''Goals''' || '''Assists''' ||'''Points''' || '''PIM''' |- align="center" bgcolor="" |- align="center" bgcolor="" | 2002-03 || 26 || 17 || 15 || 32 ||59 |- align="center" bgcolor="" |2003-04 || 22 || 10 || 26 || 36 || 46 |- align="center" bgcolor="" | 2004-05 || 28 || 23 || 37 || 60 || 50 |- align="center" bgcolor="" | 2006-07 || 23 || 10 || 27 || 37 || 14 |- align="center" bgcolor="" |}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=648518 |title=Cherie Piper - Women's Ice Hockey - Dartmouth College Athletics |access-date=2010-01-26 |archive-date=2015-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015220032/http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=648518 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Awards and honours== *2004-05 All USCHO.com Second Team<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.uscho.com/2005/03/22/uschocoms-200405-di-womens-yearend-honors/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121006020848/http://www.uscho.com/2005/03/22/uschocoms-200405-di-womens-yearend-honors/| archive-date = 2012-10-06| title = USCHO.com's 2004-05 D-I Women's Year-End Honors :: USCHO.com :: U.S. College Hockey Online}}</ref> * Patty Kazmaier Award Finalist, 2005<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/pattykazmaier.asp |title=Ivy League Sports |access-date=2010-02-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115144518/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/pattykazmaier.asp |archive-date=2010-01-15 }}</ref>

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