Born |
Staint-Zacharie, QC, CAN |
August 3, 1977 ||
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Height | 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) | ||
Position | Forward | ||
Shoots | Left | ||
CIAU NWHL CWHL team |
Concordia Stingers Montreal Axion Les Canadiennes |
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National team | Canada | ||
Playing career | 1997–present | ||
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Lisa-Marie Breton (born August 3, 1977) is an assistant coach with Les Canadiennes de Montréal (formerly Montreal Stars). For the 2010–11 Montreal CWHL season, Breton is the team captain. Breton has also competed for the Canada women's national inline hockey team, capturing a gold medal for Canada at the 2005 FIRS Inline Hockey World Championships in Paris, France.
Breton started playing hockey at the age of six. She is a co-founder of the CWHL, has served as a board member and continues to work relentlessly to further develop the world's top women's hockey league. She complements this dedication with a career as the strength and conditioning manager for all the varsity teams at Concordia University. As captain of the Montréal team, she feels that her teammates' enjoyment of playing with Montréal is as important as the success of the team.
Breton attended Cégep de Trois-Rivières, and was allowed to play for UQTR Patriotes as part of a league made up of other Cegeps and universities throughout the province. Breton was invited to the 2000-01 Hockey Canada National Development Camp.
At fifteen years of age, she was recruited by Team Quebec at the junior level and played in the first ever National Junior Championship for hockey in 1993. The team won a silver medal in a loss to Team Ontario. Breton represented Team Quebec in numerous tournaments. In 2000, she played with Kim St. Pierre and Nancy Drolet as part of Team Quebec at the 2000 Esso Nationals. Her club team, the Montreal Axion earned the right to represent Quebec as the club competed at the 2005 Esso Nationals.
Breton joined Concordia for the 1997-98 season, and went to five National championships with the Stingers. In her rookie year, the CIS recognized women's hockey. The Stingers were granted their first National Championship, which was held at Concordia. Breton was part of the squad that won the 1999 National Championship, but her club was beaten in the 2000 semi-finals by the University of Alberta by a 4-3 tally. That year, the Stingers took third place. In the 2000-01 season, Breton led the Quebec Student Sports Federation with eight goals and six assists in just six games.