Sarah Fillier

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

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Position:
Forward
Height:
5-5
Class:
Junior
High School:
Christ the King
Hometown:
Georgetown, Ont.

Awards
2024 AHCA second-team All-America
2024 top-10 Patty Kazmaier Award finalist
2024 USCHO second team
2024 first-team All-ECAC
2024 first-team All-Ivy League
2023 first-team All-Ivy League
2023 ECAC All-Academic Team
2020 AHCA second-team All-America
2019 AHCA second-team All-America
2019 National Rookie of the Year
2020 top-10 Patty Kazmaier Award finalist
2019 top-10 Patty Kazmaier Award finalist
2019 ECAC Rookie of the Year
2019 Ivy League Player of the Year
2019 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
2020 first-team All-Ivy League
2019 first-team All-Ivy League
2020 first-team All-ECAC
2019 first-team All-ECAC
2020 second-team All-USCHO
2019 ECAC All-Rookie Team
2020 finalist for ECAC Player of the Year and Best Forward
2019 finalist for ECAC Player of the Year, Best Forward and Rookie
2020 ECAC All-Academic Team
2019 ECAC All-Academic Team
2020 ECAC Tournament Most Outstanding Player

At Princeton
Finished her career with 93 career goals (sixth all-time), 101 career assists (second all-time, most since 1995), and 194 career points (fourth all-time, most since 1995).

2023-24
Second-team AHCA All-American ... first-team All-ECAC and All-Ivy ... four-time ECAC Hockey Forward of the Week and two-time ECAC Hockey Forward of the Month ... scored a career-high 30 goals, earning Princeton's 10th 30-goal season all-time ... finished her season leading all of Division I in goals per game, at 1.03, was 10th in points per game (1.48) and seventh in power-play goals (eight) ... at the conclusion of her season, led all of Division I in career points per game (1.62), total career goals (93), and career goals per game (0.78), was second in career points (194), fourth in career assists per game (0.84), and sixth in career assists (101) ... had 11 multi-goal games including three hat tricks, at LIU (Dec. 5), at Union (Feb. 16) and in her final game at Baker Rink, against Dartmouth (Feb. 24) ... final multi-goal game was in the ECAC quarterfinal at Clarkson, a two-goal game (Mar. 2) ... had 13 multi-point games with a high of four, against Providence (Jan. 5), at Union (Feb. 16) and against Dartmouth (Feb. 24) ... was named the Player of the Tournament at the Friendship Series in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as Princeton swept the two-game series from Providence, and was named Player of the Game in the second game ... won 197 of 293 faceoffs taken ... blocked 18 shots.

2022-23
Prior to Princeton's season, helped lead Canada to its second straight IIHF World Championship, scoring five goals and 11 points ... the five goals were tied for fifth in the tournament and co-led Canada, and the 11 points were tied for fourth in the tournament and led Canada ... first-team All-Ivy League honoree ... led Princeton in goals (19), assists (18) and points (37) ... took a team-high 155 shots ... team-high 39 penalty minutes ... was +14 on the season ... goals came in 14 games ... had a hat trick in the 11-3 win over No. 4 Quinnipiac on Jan. 29 in Baker Rink ... scored twice at Mercyhurst in a 6-5 win on Dec. 9, adding an assist for three points and scoring the game-winning goal on an overtime penalty shot ... scored twice at Rensselaer on Dec. 2, part of a five-point game in which she had three assists and had a point on every goal in the 5-1 win ... had two goals at Clarkson on Feb. 17 ... scored in two of the three games of the ECAC quarterfinal series at Colgate, including getting the eventual game-winning goal midway through the third period in the 3-2 game-one win ... also had goals against Colgate (Oct. 28), at Brown (Nov. 4), Syracuse (Nov. 11), Cornell (Nov. 27), Mercyhurst (Dec. 10), Harvard (Jan. 7), at Cornell (Jan. 13), and at Harvard (Feb. 3) ... had a two-assist game against Syracuse on Nov. 11 ... blocked 28 shots on the season ... held several national statistical rankings, including assists per game (45th, 0.58), faceoff wins (sixth, 490), goals per game (12th, 0.61), penalties (13th, 18), points per game (25th, 1.19), and short-handed goals (23rd, one).

2021-22
Took the year off from Princeton to compete with the Canadian national team, winning the IIHF World Championship in August 2021 in Calgary and gold at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing ... at the IIHF World Championships, scored three goals and had three assists for six points ... against Finland in the IIHF opener, had the go-ahead and eventual game-winning goal in a 5-3 win, against ROC, had the first goal in a 5-1 win, and capped the scoring in a 7-0 win over Germany in the quarters ... at the Olympics, scored eight goals to stand second among all players in the tournament, and had 11 points to stand sixth among all players ... had the first two goals of the Games for Canada on the way to a 12-1 win over Switzerland ... had the first goal in each of the first two periods in an 11-1 win over Finland ... made it three straight games to open the tournament with a first-period goal, helping Canada to a 2-0 lead in a 6-1 win over ROC ... had two first-period goals before making it a hat trick in the third in an 11-0 win over Sweden in the quarterfinals.

2020-21
Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20
AHCA second-team All-America ... first-team All-ECAC ... first-team All-Ivy ... second-team All-USCHO ... one of three finalists for ECAC Best Forward and one of three finalists for ECAC Player of the Year ... top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award for the second straight year ... named Most Outstanding Player of the ECAC Tournament and was on the all-tournament team ... NCAA Second Star of the Week on Nov. 19 ... ECAC Player of the Week on Nov. 18 and Nov. 25 ... ECAC All-Academic ... finished second in the nation in points per game (1.84), ninth in goals per game (0.71), and third in assists per game (1.13) ... matched her freshman-year totals with 22 goals and 35 assists ... had a five-assist, six-point game on Dec. 7 against Colgate, the first five-assist or six-point game for Princeton since 2006 ... had a five-point (2G, 3A) game against Saint Anselm on Jan. 4 as part of a four-goal, seven-point series ... had a four-assist game at Union on Nov. 15 ... ended the season on a seven-game point-scoring streak, including in all five games of the ECAC Tournament ... scored twice, had an assist and had the double-OT game-winning goal against Quinnipiac in the winner-take-all third game on March 1, getting a point on all three goals ... scored goals in both the ECAC semifinal and final wins ... played in 31 games on the season, took 181 shots on goal, blocked 29, and finished at +49 ... was .594 (435-297) on faceoffs ... scored two goals against Quinnipiac on Oct. 29, two at Rensselaer on Nov. 16, two against Clarkson on Nov. 22, one against St. Lawrence on Nov. 23, one against Colgate on Dec. 7, two each against Saint Anselm on Jan. 3 and 4, one at Dartmouth on Jan. 10, one each in three straight games against Rensselaer (Feb. 7), Union (Feb. 8), and at St. Lawrence on Feb. 14, two against Yale on Feb. 22, and one in each of the ECAC semifinals against Clarkson and ECAC final against Cornell March 7-8 ... also had an assist against Syracuse on Oct. 25, two against Syracuse on Oct. 26, one against Quinnipiac on Oct. 29, one at Rensselaer on Nov. 16, one against St. Lawrence on Nov. 23, two against Ohio State on Dec. 14, one at Harvard on Jan. 11, two at Yale on Jan. 31, one at Brown on Feb. 1, two against Rensselaer on Feb. 7, one against Union on Feb. 8, two against Brown on Feb. 21, one against Yale on Feb. 22, four total (two-one-one) in the three ECAC quarterfinal games against Quinnipiac Feb. 28 through March 1, and one in the ECAC semifinal March 7 against Clarkson ... team qualified for the NCAA Championships, but the event was canceled by the NCAA due to the COVID-19 virus.

2018-19
NCAA leading scorer with 22 goals and 35 assists for 57 points in 29 games (1.97 ppg), 4th in the nation in goals per game (0.76), 1st in assists per game (1.21), 1st in freshmen scoring (1.97) ... took 152 shots on goal, blocked 19 shots, took 15 penalties and finished + 24 ... had a points in 24 of 29 games and had 19 multiple-point games ... had a six-game goal scoring streak with nine goals in those six games ... had a nine-game point scoring streak with 23 points in nine games ... had two assists in the season opener at No. 2 Wisconsin ... had a three-assist game versus Yale on Oct. 26 and scored a goal and had two assists in a win over Brown the next day ... missed the next four games to compete for Hockey Canada ... had an assist in a 6-0 shutout of Colgate on Nov. 16 and had an assist in a 2-2 draw with No. 6 Cornell the next afternoon ... assisted on all three goals in a 3-2 win over Quinnipiac and scored twice against the Bobcats in a 4-1 win on the road ... had a goal and set up the game winner at Union ... scored in a 1-1 draw with Merrimack on Dec. 30 and scored two goals and had the assist on the game winner versus the Warriors the next day ... had a goal and an assist in a win at Harvard on Jan. 4 and scored two goals and one assist in a win at Dartmouth the next day ... tallied two goals and two assists in a 5-0 shutout of No. 4 Cornell on Jan. 11 ... net two assists in a draw with No. 9 Colgate on Jan. 12 ... scored the game-winning goal and had two assist in a 4-2 win versus Penn State on Jan. 29 ... had a goal and two assists, including on the overtime game winner against St. Lawrence on Feb. 1 ... had one goal and four assists for a five points game at Brown (the first Tiger to have five points in a game since 2006) ... added two assists the next day in a win at Yale ... scored the game-winning goal and had one assist in a win over Union on Feb. 15 ... tallied an assist against No. 5 Clarkson on Feb. 22 ... had a hat trick in a 4-1 win over St. Lawrence in Game 1 of the ECAC playoffs and had a goal and two assists in a 6-2 win in Game 2 ... had an assist in a 3-2 double overtime loss to No. 5 Cornell in the ECAC semifinals ... scored both goals in a 5-2 loss to No. 2 Minnesota in the NCAA quarterfinal ... second-Team All-America ... National Rookie of the Year ... Patty Kazmaier candidate ... ECAC Rookie of the Year ... Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Year (unanimous) ... first-team All-ECAC Hockey ... first-team All-ECAC Hockey ... first-team All-Ivy League ... ECAC All-Rookie Team ... ECAC Finalist for Best Player, Best Forward, Rookie ... NCAA First Star of the Week (Jan. 8, March 5) ... ECAC Player of the Week (Jan. 7) ... ECAC Rookie of the Week (Dec. 3, Jan. 7) ... ECAC Rookie of the Month (Dec., Jan.) ... National Rookie of the Month (Dec., Jan.) ...USCHO National Rookie of the Year, all-Rookie Team, second-team ... ECAC All-Academic Team.

International: Competed in two IIHF Women's World U18 Championships, winning silver in 2017 and bronze in 2018 as team captain ... represented Team Ontario at two national championships with gold medals in 2016 and 2017 and was team captain and tournament MVP in 2017 ... Four Nations Cup in November 2018, winning a silver medal with Hockey Canada as the only collegiate freshman on the roster ... selected to attend the 2019 Hockey Canada National Women's Development Team Selection Camp in August 2019 ... named to the 2020 IIHF World Championships team, but the tournament was not held ... helped lead Canada to back-to-back IIHF World Championships in 2021 and 2022, and to the Olympic gold medal in 2022.

Before Princeton: Spent two seasons playing with the Oakville Jr. Hornets in the PWHL ... scored 61 points in 46 games with 31 goals and 30 assists in 2016-17 when Oakville won both the league and the Provincial Championships ... captained the 2017-18 team to a second-place finish at both the PWHL and Provincial Championships ... scored 42 points in 32 games with 21 goals and assists ... prior to joining the Hornets she played for North Halton Twisters and Halton Hurricanes Boys AAA ... also played played badminton, basketball, flag football, ultimate Frisbee and track & field in high school.

Personal: Full name is Sarah Anne Fillier ... daughter of Dave and Maureen Fillier ... has a twin sister Kayla (Princeton '23), an older sister Nicole (Queens '12), and older brother Trevor (Laurier '15) ... majoring in psychology.