Amanda Kessel
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August 28, 1991 Madison, WI, USA |
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| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st 0 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shoots | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| NWHL team | New York Riveters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 United States
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| Playing career | 2016–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amanda Kessel (born August 28, 1991) is an American professional ice hockey player for the New York Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League. She is also a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She played four seasons for the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program (2010–2011 through 2012–13, and 2015–16).
Prior to high school, she participated for the Madison Capitols Bantam boys’ team in 2005–06 and helped the team to state and regional championships. Kessel attended Shattuck St. Mary's in Minnesota. The 2007 edition of the team captured the U-19 national championship, while Kessel marked 102 points in 56 games. In her junior year, Kessel registered 44 goals and 56 assists for 100 points. She accomplished the 100 point mark in just 34 games and won her second consecutive U-19 national championship. She tallied 122 points (67 goals and 55 assists in just 46 games) in her final season. She was the team leader by 61 points.
As a member of the U.S. Women's National Team, Kessel has won a medal at all the international tournaments she has participated in:
Prior to being named to the U.S. Women's National Team, Kessel was a member of both the United States Under-22 Team and Under-18 Team. Kessel played for the United States Under-18 in 2009, and was named the World Under 18 tournament’s most valuable forward. She scored six goals and 13 assists for 19 points to lead Team USA to a gold medal. In the 2008 Under 18 World Championships, she played in five games with Team USA and tallied 11 points, ranking third among all players in scoring. Kessel was named to the US team that participated in the 2010 Four Nations Cup. She did not play due to injury.
Kessel was never drafted by a National Women's Hockey League team; league rules stipulate that a college player must be entering her senior year to be drafted, and Kessel's junior season was completed in 2013, before the league existed. Instead, she signed as a free-agent with the New York Riveters on May 1, 2016. Her contract of $26,000 was the largest NWHL contract to date. Kessel was named one of the two captains for the 2nd NWHL All-Star Game. Scoring a hat trick in the All-Star Game, the first to do so in NWHL All-Star history, she would also be recognized as the game's Most Valuable Player.
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