Kelly Babstock | |||
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Born |
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | August 4, 1992||
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.