[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/olympic-womens-hockey.jpg” caption=”Celebration ensues moments after the gold medal win at the Turin 2006 Olympics.”]McMaster alumna Margot Page had a front row seat for the Olympic gold medal win by the Canadian women's hockey team yesterday, as she is an assistant coach with the team. Page, who graduated with a bachelor of physical education degree in 1987, has spent the last year in Calgary working with the national team. A native of Stoney Creek, she was an Honour M award winner and female athlete of the year award winner while at McMaster and was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame.

Page was head coach of the 2003-04 National Under-22 team that captured the 2003 and 2004 European Air Canada Cup. Before joining the national women's team, Page was the first head coach for the women's hockey program at Niagara University in New York State. As a player, Page captured three gold medals with Canada's National Women's team at the 1990, 1992 and 1994 IIHF World Women's Hockey Championships.

McMaster grad and Olympic women's hockey team physiotherapist celebrates the 2006 gold medal win in Turin with player Cassie Campbell.

Recent McMaster graduate Doug Stacey '05 also contributed support to the Women's Olympic Hockey team effort in Turin, as physiotherapist. This is Stacey's second Olympic Gold medal experience, as he was physical therapist for the women's team in Salt Lake City. Stacey was also the physiotherapist for the World juniors in North Dakota last year where they won the Gold Medal. Stacey earned his Bachelor of Health Sciences in physiotherapy from McMaster in 1994 and completed his master's of science in human biodynamics in 2005. After graduating last summer, he spent six months in Calgary with the team preparing for the 2006 Winter Games.