Kelly Babstock

Kelly Babstock
Babstock with PWHL Boston in 2024
Born (1992-08-04) August 4, 1992 (age 32)
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Position Forward
Shoots Right
PWHL team
Former teams
PWHL Boston
Playing career 2010–present

Kelly Babstock (born August 4, 1992) is a Canadian-American ice hockey player for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). She has Ojibwe roots and is originally from Little Current on Manitoulin Island, part of the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory.[1]

Babstock played college ice hockey with the Quinnipiac Bobcats women's ice hockey program and, as of September 2021, remains the top goal, assist, and point scorer in the program's history.[2][3][4] She was the first Canadian-born player to score a goal in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF; called the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) during 2014 to 2021) and went on to play a total of seven seasons in the league before it was dissolved in 2023.

  1. ^ D'Arcangelo, Lyndsey (October 18, 2018). "As the NWHL's only Native player, Beauts newcomer Kelly Babstock is on a mission to open the door for others". The Athletic. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  2. ^ "2013-14 Women's Ice Hockey: 8 Kelly Babstock". Quinnipiac University Athletics. 2013. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  3. ^ "Women's Ice Hockey Individual Career Records". Quinnipiac University Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 24, 2023. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  4. ^ "Quinnipiac Women's Ice Hockey Record Book, All-Time Individual Career Records" (PDF). Quinnipiac University Athletics. September 2, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2023.