Boston College Athletics
Cal Bouchard To Play For Canada In Olympic Games
August 15, 2000 | Women's Basketball
Aug. 15, 2000
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- Former Boston College women's basketball player Cal Bouchard will compete for the Canadian Olympic Team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Bouchard is the first female athlete from Boston College to compete in the Olympics.
In June, the Canadian squad finished third in a four-country pre-Olympic tournament in Sydney. Following the Australian trip, the team played a three-game exhibition series against Cuba in Hamilton, Toronto, and Montreal in July. The team will play the United States national squad in a three-game series in August in Texas and California before traveling to Sydney for this fall's Olympic Games.
Bouchard has been a member of the Canadian National Team since 1997 and was a member of the 1999 team that captured the silver medal at the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg. The Canadian team qualified for the Olympics in May 1999 by virtue of a third-place finish in Havana, Cuba at the COPABA Olympic qualification tournament.
Bouchard finished her collegiate career fourth on the school's all-time scoring list with 1,496 points and was named the winner of the 2000 Eagle of the Year Award, Boston College's highest athletic honor. As a senior, Bouchard was the team's leading scorer, averaging 15.6 points per game. She led the league in three point field goals made per game with an average of 2.83 and was selected to the All-BIG EAST First Team. Bouchard participated in the WBCA All-Star Challenge at the NCAA Women's Final Four and competed in the annual College Three-Point Basketball Championship at the NCAA Men's Final Four. She also earned All-BIG EAST First Team honors as a sophomore before a knee injury sidelined her for the second half of the 1998-99 season. Bouchard became the first women's basketball player in school history to be selected in the WNBA draft when she was drafted by the Detroit Shock in the fourth round (60th pick).
In addition to her athletic awards, Bouchard has been honored for her academic accomplishments at Boston College. Bouchard graduated summa cum laude with a 3.91 GPA in the honors program in the Carroll School of Management. She was awarded the Edward H. Finnegan Award (Boston College's highest honor) at graduation, marking the first time that a student-athlete received the honor. Bouchard was also the recipient of the Semper Esse Excellentia Award, given to the Honors Program senior who best combines academics and out-of-classroom activities, and earned the Rev. Charles W. Lyons Award for Academic Excellence in the major of accounting. She was also named the 1999-2000 BIG EAST Women's Basketball Scholar Athlete and was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
