A standout women’s hockey and lacrosse player for the Golden Knights in the early 1980s, Cathy Champion-Demers helped to establish a solid foundation for women’s intercollegiate athletics at Clarkson.

A native of Nepean, Ontario, Champion-Demers dominated on the ice at Walker Arena in the winter and led the play on the lacrosse fields during the spring as one of the most prolific scorers in any sport ever to attend Clarkson.

From 1980-84, Champion-Demers put on an offensive show that rivaled any individual effort in the country. She paced the women’s hockey team in each of her four seasons and finished with a program-best 165 points on 98 goals and 67 assists playing for head coaches Ron Frazer ’45 and Lon Avery.

"Cathy was the best puck carrier I ever had," stated Frazer, a 2004 Clarkson Athletic Hall of Fame inductee. "She was just one of those people who had exceptional skill on the ice. Champ was by far the best player on the ice anytime we played."

Following the hockey seasons, Champion-Demers continued to excel in the spring, leading the Golden Knights women’s lacrosse team. In just a 28-game career, she amassed 67 goals and 16 assists for 83 points, and still remains the program’s all-time leader in points per game with a 2.96 average.

She was also a team leader, serving as captain of the women’s hockey and lacrosse teams in her junior and senior years.

At the conclusion of her collegiate hockey campaign, Champion-Demers played in the third annual American Women’s Hockey Coaches Association All-Star game at Harvard on March 17, 1984. She scored a goal on a 30-foot wrist shot for the first goal in her team’s 5-4 victory.

After graduating from Clarkson in 1984 with a B.S. in management, Champion-Demers played on teams that went to Switzerland, Germany, Holland and England, and on the first team to enter the Czech Republic before the Iron Curtain fell. She served as President of the Ottawa District Women’s Hockey Association for six years, volunteered on the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association for three years and was on the organizing committee for the first Women’s World’s Hockey Championships that were held in Ottawa in 1990.

Cathy Champion-Demers Bureau accepts her Athletic Hall of Fame plaque from Clarkson President Tony Collins and AD Steve Yianoukos