25 - Kate Martini
Kate Martini
Height: 5-6
Year: Fr.
Hometown: King City, Ont.
High School: Country Day School
Position: D
Major: Undeclared
Previous Team: Toronto Aeros
S/C: R
Residential College: Morse

Before Yale: Assistant captain of Toronto Aeros 2012 … 2011 PWHL Champions, 2011 Provincial Silver Medalists, 2012 PWHL Silver Medalists, 2012 Provincial Silver Medalists with Aeros … Won high school’s athlete of the year award in 2008-09 and 2009-10 … Also played rugby (captain junior and senior years), soccer and volleyball, and was on track and field team … Selected to the Ontario U17 rugby team and won a bronze medal at the 2011 Canadian National U18 Rugby Championships … Finished career as all-time leading scorer for her high school rugby team with 224 points … Rugby MVP in sophomore, junior and senior seasons ... Finished 11th in shot put at 2010 Provincial Track Championships.

Notes: Brother Robert was captain of the hockey team at Niagara and graduated in May 2012 with a B.S. in Economics … Father, Paul, won World Pairs Figure Skating Championships in 1984 and competed in two Winter Olympics.

Why Yale? “After my first visit to Yale, it became my benchmark. I was comparing every other school to Yale and nowhere else even came close to surpassing it.”