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Kerry Weiland
Kerry Pauline Weiland Sorbara (née Weiland; born October 18, 1980) is an American former professional ice hockey and inline hockey player, a defenseman. As a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team, she won four IIHF Women's World Championship medals and a silver medal in the 2010 Olympic women's ice hockey tournament.
As a child, Weiland began skating and playing pickup games on her family’s farm. At age five, she followed her older brother when he began playing organized ice hockey with the Matanuska Amateur Hockey Association at the local rink in Wasilla, Alaska and played exclusively on boys' teams until she was thirteen. She played on boys' and girls' teams throughout her teens, including four seasons with the boys' varsity team of her high school, Palmer High School. With the Palmer High Moose boys' team, she became the first female player to earn first-team all-region honors in Alaska prep league history.
Her college ice hockey career began in the fall of 1999 with the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference of the NCAA Division I. The 1999–2000 season was the inaugural season of both the WCHA women's conference and the Badgers women's ice hockey program. Over half of the team were first-year players like Weiland and her fellow freshmen included future US national team goaltender Chanda Gunn and defenseman, Sis Paulsen, the future Director of Hockey Operations for the Badgers women's program.
In her first season, Weiland ranked fifth on the team for scoring, tallying 10 goals and 35 points in 33 games, and recorded the best plus–minus of all Badger defensemen, with +7. During the Wisconsin Badgers program’s second game on October 9, 1999, in which they faced the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs, she set the WCHA all-time records for most penalties and most penalty minutes issued in a single game, with eight penalties and 24 penalty minutes; the records remain untouched as of September 2022[update]. At the end of the season, Weiland was named to the All-WCHA Second Team and was awarded the team’s Most Inspirational Player award and Defensive Player of the Year award.
Named alongside captain Sis Paulsen in their sophomore season, Weiland served as an alternate captain during her last three seasons with the Badgers. The 2000–01 season, the inaugural NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season, was her most offensively productive and she led all defensemen in the country with 49 points (12 goals+37 assists), which set the still-standing Badger program record for most points by a defensive player in a season. Her 37 assists in that season tied for most assists by a defender in a WCHA season with Minnesota Golden Gophers defenseman Winny Brodt’s total from 1999–2000 (their record stood until 2006–07, when it was broken by Meaghan Mikkelson). Her 38 penalties and 76 penalty minutes took second place in the Badger record book behind Sis Paulson’s 40 penalties and 91 penalty minutes from the 1999–2000 season and both currently sit at third, behind Paulson and Lindsay Macy (2003–04). Weiland and Badger teammate Meghan Hunter were both named to the 2001 AHCA All-American Second Team and the 2001 All-WCHA First Team.
The 2001–02 season saw Weiland play a less offensively driven role due to the addition of first-year defensemen Molly Engstrom and Carla MacLeod, who were able to provide additional production from the blue line – though she still recorded 22 points and ranked sixth on the team in scoring. Her junior season featured the highest plus–minus rating (+20) and the fewest penalty minutes (36 PIM) of her college career and was capped by her selection to the 2002 AHCA All-American First Team, becoming the first Badger to earn selection to the top All-American team.
Following her graduation, Weiland joined the Edmonton Chimos of the Canadian National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) for one regular season and two playoff games in the 2003–04 season before playing the full 2004–05 NWHL season with the Brampton Thunder. During that time, she also participated in the Esso Women's Nationals with the Chimos (as Team Alberta) in 2004 and with the Thunder competing as (Team Ontario 2) in 2005.
Weiland chose to go abroad after being cut from the 2006 US Olympic team and signed with the Swiss team DHC Lyss in the Leistungsklasse A (LK A) for the 2005–06 season. She ranked second on the team and ninth in the league for scoring, with 16 goals and 11 assists. In addition to playing in the top Swiss league, she served as an assistant coach to the Switzerland women's national under-18 ice hockey team for the 2005–06 season. During her spare time while living in Europe, she visited fourteen countries.
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Kerry Weiland
Kerry Pauline Weiland Sorbara (née Weiland; born October 18, 1980) is an American former professional ice hockey and inline hockey player, a defenseman. As a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team, she won four IIHF Women's World Championship medals and a silver medal in the 2010 Olympic women's ice hockey tournament.
As a child, Weiland began skating and playing pickup games on her family’s farm. At age five, she followed her older brother when he began playing organized ice hockey with the Matanuska Amateur Hockey Association at the local rink in Wasilla, Alaska and played exclusively on boys' teams until she was thirteen. She played on boys' and girls' teams throughout her teens, including four seasons with the boys' varsity team of her high school, Palmer High School. With the Palmer High Moose boys' team, she became the first female player to earn first-team all-region honors in Alaska prep league history.
Her college ice hockey career began in the fall of 1999 with the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference of the NCAA Division I. The 1999–2000 season was the inaugural season of both the WCHA women's conference and the Badgers women's ice hockey program. Over half of the team were first-year players like Weiland and her fellow freshmen included future US national team goaltender Chanda Gunn and defenseman, Sis Paulsen, the future Director of Hockey Operations for the Badgers women's program.
In her first season, Weiland ranked fifth on the team for scoring, tallying 10 goals and 35 points in 33 games, and recorded the best plus–minus of all Badger defensemen, with +7. During the Wisconsin Badgers program’s second game on October 9, 1999, in which they faced the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs, she set the WCHA all-time records for most penalties and most penalty minutes issued in a single game, with eight penalties and 24 penalty minutes; the records remain untouched as of September 2022[update]. At the end of the season, Weiland was named to the All-WCHA Second Team and was awarded the team’s Most Inspirational Player award and Defensive Player of the Year award.
Named alongside captain Sis Paulsen in their sophomore season, Weiland served as an alternate captain during her last three seasons with the Badgers. The 2000–01 season, the inaugural NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season, was her most offensively productive and she led all defensemen in the country with 49 points (12 goals+37 assists), which set the still-standing Badger program record for most points by a defensive player in a season. Her 37 assists in that season tied for most assists by a defender in a WCHA season with Minnesota Golden Gophers defenseman Winny Brodt’s total from 1999–2000 (their record stood until 2006–07, when it was broken by Meaghan Mikkelson). Her 38 penalties and 76 penalty minutes took second place in the Badger record book behind Sis Paulson’s 40 penalties and 91 penalty minutes from the 1999–2000 season and both currently sit at third, behind Paulson and Lindsay Macy (2003–04). Weiland and Badger teammate Meghan Hunter were both named to the 2001 AHCA All-American Second Team and the 2001 All-WCHA First Team.
The 2001–02 season saw Weiland play a less offensively driven role due to the addition of first-year defensemen Molly Engstrom and Carla MacLeod, who were able to provide additional production from the blue line – though she still recorded 22 points and ranked sixth on the team in scoring. Her junior season featured the highest plus–minus rating (+20) and the fewest penalty minutes (36 PIM) of her college career and was capped by her selection to the 2002 AHCA All-American First Team, becoming the first Badger to earn selection to the top All-American team.
Following her graduation, Weiland joined the Edmonton Chimos of the Canadian National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) for one regular season and two playoff games in the 2003–04 season before playing the full 2004–05 NWHL season with the Brampton Thunder. During that time, she also participated in the Esso Women's Nationals with the Chimos (as Team Alberta) in 2004 and with the Thunder competing as (Team Ontario 2) in 2005.
Weiland chose to go abroad after being cut from the 2006 US Olympic team and signed with the Swiss team DHC Lyss in the Leistungsklasse A (LK A) for the 2005–06 season. She ranked second on the team and ninth in the league for scoring, with 16 goals and 11 assists. In addition to playing in the top Swiss league, she served as an assistant coach to the Switzerland women's national under-18 ice hockey team for the 2005–06 season. During her spare time while living in Europe, she visited fourteen countries.
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