{{Short description|Swiss ice hockey player (born 1998)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox ice hockey biography | name = | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|2|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Vuisternens-devant-Romont,<br>Fribourg, Switzerland | height_m = 1.72 | weight_kg = 79 | position = Forward | shoots = Right | league = SWHL A | team = SC Bern | former_teams = Montreal Carabins<br>HC Université Neuchâtel | played_for = <!-- Teams a retired player played for --> | league_coach = | team_coach = | coached_for = | sex = f | ntl_team = SUI | career_start = 2014 | career_end = | career_start_coach = | career_end_coach = | website = {{URL|https://www.kaleighquennec.com|kaleighquennec.com}} | medaltemplates = {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalBronze|2026 Milano Cortina|Team}} }} '''Kaleigh Quennec''' (born 15 February 1998) is a Swiss ice hockey player and member of the Swiss national team. She is signed in the Swiss Women's League (SWHL A) with SC Bern Frauen for the 2024–25 season.
==Playing career== Quennec played in the Swiss Mini A and Top Novizen leagues with the youth teams of Genève-Servette HC. During the 2016–17 season, she attended the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut and played with the LC girls' varsity team in the New England Prep Division I league.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-15|title=Kaleigh Quennec '17 to Compete in Winter Olympics|url=https://www.loomischaffee.org/athletics/sports-information-center/new-page/~board/athletics-news/post/kaleigh-quennec-17-to-compete-in-winter-olympics|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Loomis Chaffee Athletics|language=en-US|archive-date=19 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119230852/https://www.loomischaffee.org/athletics/sports-information-center/new-page/~board/athletics-news/post/kaleigh-quennec-17-to-compete-in-winter-olympics|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Her college ice hockey career was played with the Montreal Carabins women's ice hockey program in the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) conference of U Sports during 2017 to 2024.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hockey Féminin: Kaleigh Quennec |url=https://carabins.umontreal.ca/hockey-feminin/equipe/quennec-kaleigh/kaleigh-quennec/ |website=Carabins de l'Université de Montréal |access-date=29 April 2024 |language=fr-CA |date=31 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hockey Féminin – Équipe: 12 Kaleigh Quennec |url=https://carabins.umontreal.ca/hockey-feminin/equipe/quennec-kaleigh/ |website=Carabins de l'Université de Montréal |access-date=29 April 2024 |language=fr-CA |date=26 September 2022}}</ref>
==International play== As a junior player with the Swiss national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Championships at the Division I Group A tournament in 2014 and at the Top Division tournaments in 2015 and 2016.<ref>{{Cite book|title=IIHF Guide & Record Book 2020|publisher=Moydart|year=2019|isbn=9780986796470|editor-last=Podnieks|editor-first=Andrew|editor-link=Andrew Podnieks|location=Toronto|pages=658|chapter=Active Skaters, Women|editor-last2=Nordmark|editor-first2=Birger}}</ref>
Quennec represented Switzerland in the women'ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|date=6 March 2019|title=A-Nati: WM-Aufgebot für Finnland bekannt|url=http://www.frauennati.ch/index.php?id=89&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2302&tx_ttnews[backPid]=46&cHash=a7fb78b3f4|access-date=2022-01-19|website=FrauenNati.ch|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-04-06|title=2021 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: SUI - Switzerland|url=http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/510/IHW5100SUI_33_2_0_SUI.pdf|access-date=2022-01-19|website=International Ice Hockey Federation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-08-31|title=IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: SUI - Switzerland|url=https://www.iihf.com/pdf/929/ihw9290sui_83_7_0_sui|access-date=2021-12-27|website=International Ice Hockey Federation}}</ref>
==Personal life== Her father, Hugh Quennec, was the franchise owner and president of Genève-Servette HC during 2005 to 2017, and of Servette FC during 2012 to 2015.
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==External links== * {{Ice hockey stats}} * [https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/results/athlete-details/48623 Kaleigh Quennec] at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics * [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205224057/https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/ice-hockey/athlete-profile-n1049801-kaleigh-quennec.htm Kaleigh Quennec] at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived) * {{Olympics.com|kaleigh-quennec}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{Instagram}}<!-- per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, choose one official website only -->
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quennec, Kaleigh}} Category:1998 births Category:Living people Category:Swiss women's ice hockey forwards Category:Montreal Carabins women's ice hockey players Category:Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Category:Olympic medalists in ice hockey Category:Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Category:Ice hockey players at the 2026 Winter Olympics Category:Medalists at the 2026 Winter Olympics Category:Canadian people of Swiss descent Category:Swiss expatriate ice hockey people Category:Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Canada Category:Swiss people of Canadian descent Category:Loomis Chaffee School alumni Category:Sportspeople from the canton of Fribourg Category:21st-century Swiss sportswomen
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