Charline Labonté is, fittingly, going out a champion.
She is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, three-time World Champion, three-time U SPORTS National Champion, and this past March she finally won her elusive first Clarkson Cup.
The 3-1 win against the Calgary Inferno at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa would be the last game she played, as the 34-year-old announced her retirement this morning.
“Although I thought I would be able to prepare for it, to think about it and to feel ready to move on to another stage of my life, it remains that retiring and leaving this sport, which allowed me to live the strongest moments of my life, is one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” Labonté said in a statement.