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Ella Shelton
Canadian ice hockey player
Ella Shelton (born January 19, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for PWHL New York of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), and member of Canada women's national ice hockey team. She was drafted fourth overall in the 2023 PWHL Draft by New York.
| Ella Shelton | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
(1998-01-19) January 19, 1998 (age 26) Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||
| Weight | 176 lb (80 kg; 12 st 8 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| PWHL team Former teams |
PWHL New York
| ||
| National team |
 Canada | ||
| Playing career | 2013–present | ||
Shelton competed in the Provincial Women's Hockey League (Provincial WHL) with the London Jr. Devilettes club. In 2016, Shelton skated for Team Ontario's U18 provincial squad. [1]
College
Her college ice hockey career was played with the Clarkson Golden Knights women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of the NCAA Division I from the 2016–17 season to the 2019–20 season. During her junior season, Shelton led the Golden Knights in shots blocked with 81. Additionally, she was named the assistant captain. She would follow it up with the honour of team captain in her senior season, one which saw her named as a finalist for the ECAC's Best Defenseman award.
Professional
After college, Shelton joined the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA). She was affiliated with the Toronto hub during the 2020–21 PWHPA season and played with Team Scotiabank during the 2022–23 season.
On September 18, 2023, Shelton was selected in the first round, fourth overall by PWHL New York in the 2023 Draft of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).[2] On October 31, 2023, she signed a three-year contract with the team.[3] On December 21, 2023, Shelton and teammate Alex Carpenter were named the first alternate captains in team history.[4]
On January 1, 2024, against PWHL Toronto, Shelton scored the first goal in PWHL history.[5]
Shelton was named to the Canadian contingent that participated at the Nation's Cup in Fussen, Germany, in January 2018, which saw her call fellow Clarkson Golden Knights Loren Gabel a teammate. Losing both games in the preliminary round, Canada defeated Germany by a 5-1 mark in the fifth-place game; Shelton would assist on a second period goal by Brooke Stacey.[6]
She was one of 28 players invited to Hockey Canada's Centralization Camp, which represents the selection process for the Canadian women's team that shall compete in Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[7] On January 11, 2022, Shelton was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.[8][9][10]
Regular season and playoffs
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2013–14 | London Jr. Devilettes | Prov. WHL | 37 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2014–15 | London Jr. Devilettes | Prov. WHL | 37 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | ||
| 2015–16 | London Jr. Devilettes | Prov. WHL | 34 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 2016–17 | Clarkson University | NCAA | 41 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2017–18 | Clarkson University | NCAA | 39 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2018–19 | Clarkson University | NCAA | 40 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2019–20 | Clarkson University | NCAA | 33 | 9 | 24 | 33 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2020–21 | Team Sonnet | PWHPA | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2022–23 | Team Scotiabank | PWHPA | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NCAA totals | 153 | 26 | 82 | 108 | 76 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| PWHPA totals | 22 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
International
| Honors | Year | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| ECAC | ||
| All-Academic Team | 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 | [1] |
| Third Team All-Star | 2017 | |
| All-Rookie Team | 2017 | |
| All-Tournament Team | 2017, 2018, 2019 | |
| Second Team All-Star | 2018, 2019 | |
| First Team All-Star | 2020 | |
| NCAA | ||
| USCHO All-Rookie Team | 2017 | [11] |
| Second Team ACHA All-American | 2020 | [1] |
| Second Team All-USCHO | 2020 | [12] |
- "Ella Shelton". clarksonathletics.com. Clarkson Golden Knights. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- Pyette, Ryan (September 19, 2023). "Ingersoll's Ella Shelton picked fourth overall in inaugural PWHL draft". The London Free Press. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
- @PWHL_NewYork (October 31, 2023). "It's New York or nowhere. 🗽 We have officially signed Team Canada Olympian Ella Shelton ( @ella_shelton11 ) to a three-year contract. Welcome to the City of Dreams!" (Tweet). Retrieved November 3, 2023 – via Twitter.
- "New York's Shelton scores first-ever PWHL goal". TSN.ca. January 1, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
- "2018 Nations Cup: Game # 7 - Fifth Place FINAL". hockeycanada.ca. January 6, 2018. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
- "CANADA'S NATIONAL WOMEN'S TEAM UNVEILS OLYMPIC CENTRALIZATION ROSTER: 28 players to centralize in Calgary ahead of 2022 Olympic Winter Games". hockeycanada.ca. May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- Awad, Brandi (January 11, 2022). "Team Canada's women's hockey roster revealed for Beijing 2022". Canadian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on January 22, 2022. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- "Canada's 2022 Olympic women's hockey team roster". Canadian Press. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. January 11, 2022. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- "2022 Olympic Winter Games (Women)". www.hockeycanada.ca/. Hockey Canada. January 11, 2022. Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- "2016-17 Women's Hockey Honors". clarksonathletics.com. Clarkson Golden Knights. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- "2019-20 Clarkson Women's Hockey Honors". clarksonathletics.com. Clarkson Golden Knights. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com