Cassie Dawin Campbell-Pascall (born November 22, 1973) is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played for the Mississauga Chiefs, Toronto Aeros, and Calgary Oval X-Treme. She won two gold medals with Canada at the Olympic Games. After her playing career, she has worked as a broadcaster.
Born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Campbell grew up in Brampton, Ontario, playing for the Brampton Canadettes. She attended high school at North Park Secondary School Brampton and played hockey for the University of Guelph. She was a three-time Abby Hoffman Cup national champion, once with Toronto and twice with Calgary.
She is a broadcaster for ESPN/ABC, and formerly Sportsnet. Campbell has done modeling and hosted women's hockey segments on TSN's hockey broadcasts. She was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2026.
Playing career University hockey Campbell played hockey at the University of Guelph.
Club career Campbell played with the Mississauga Chiefs before she joined the Toronto Aeros. In 1999-2000, she won her first Abby Hoffman Cup as a national champion."Ontario wins national women's title" Hamilton Spectator, March 13, 2000, p. 31. She also won the NWHL Champions Cup that same season.
She then joined the Calgary Oval X-Treme and won her second national title in 2000-01."Alberta wins gold" The Times-Transcript, March 12, 2001, p. B5. She won her third national title in 2002-03."Alberta golden at nationals" Star-Phoenix, March 17, 2003, p. 18.
She played her last club season in 2004-05 when she won the WWHL Championship, then played one more season with Team Canada in 2005-06.
International career She was the captain of the Canadian women's ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics and led the team to a gold medal. The left winger took on the role of captain again in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and again successfully led her team to a gold medal with a 4 – 1 win over Sweden.
Post-playing career Campbell retired from competitive hockey on August 30, 2006. She then joined Hockey Night in Canada as a rinkside reporter, becoming (on October 14, 2006) the first woman to do color commentary on a Hockey Night in Canada broadcast. She filled in when Harry Neale was snowed in at his home in Buffalo. She launched her website in the spring of 2008 and is a spokesperson for Scotiabank. She appears at corporate events for Scotiabank and contributed to a blog on the Scotia Hockey Club website.
In honour of Campbell's success, the City of Brampton and Mayor Susan Fennell named a new Recreation Centre, the Cassie Campbell Community Centre, which officially opened in September 2008. The Board of Hockey Canada as well as Canadian hockey icon Wayne Gretzky attended the unveiling.
On November 22, 2009, Campbell ran a leg in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch relay, through the town of Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
On November 26, 2013, after Rogers Communications secured a $5.2 billion deal with the National Hockey League for 12 years, Campbell joined Sportsnet's broadcast team, in addition to her Hockey Night in Canada role. Her last broadcast was the New York Rangers at the Toronto Maple Leafs game on December 19, 2023, after she accepted a new position as a special advisor role with the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and announced on the air that this was the end of her broadcasting career after that game. Though she left Sportsnet, she continues to work for ESPN in a smaller capacity.
During the 2010, 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, Campbell provided colour commentary for women's hockey. She was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.
Before the 2018 Clarkson Cup finals, Campbell resigned from her role as a CWHL Governor. She also reported that she wanted to resign from the league in 2016, but stayed on at the request of the league. During the two years, her biggest involvement had been helping to secure sponsorships for the league.
Campbell won Best Sports Analysis or Commentary at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.Andrew Jeffrey, "Canadian Screen Award winners named in sports programming" . RealScreen, July 21, 2021.
Campbell later joined the NHL on ESPN, who would broadcast games for the first time in 17 years, as part of their new broadcast team for the 2021–22 season.
Interests Campbell also works as a motivational speaker for Speakers Spotlight, The Lavin Agency and The Sweeney Agency. She is also the author of a book which was released in October 2007. The book is titled H.E.A.R.T., a book co-written with Lorna Schultz Nicholson.
Personal life Campbell was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and raised in Brampton, Ontario. She is related to Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables.
Campbell is married to Brad Pascall, an assistant general manager of the NHL's Calgary Flames. They have a daughter, born in 2010.
In 2007, Campbell was inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the same year as Doug Flutie. The June 2007 issue of Chatelaine magazine featured Campbell on its cover for the second time.
On June 16, 2011, Campbell received an honorary degree from the University of Guelph.
On June 25, 2012, Campbell received the Order of Hockey in Canada. She was presented with the Canadian Women's Hockey League Humanitarian of the Year Award in March 2014. The award was presented to Campbell by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. On June 30, 2016, Campbell was made a Member of the Order of Canada (CM) by Governor General David Johnston for "contributions to Canadian women's hockey as a player, broadcaster and role model."
The Cassie Campbell Community Centre in Brampton, Ontario is named in her honour.
During May 2018, Campbell-Pascall was part of a group of four female athletes, including Fran Rider, Jen Kish and Kerrin Lee-Gartner to publicly pledge their brain to a Canadian research centre. The posthumous donation shall be made to Toronto Western Hospital's Canadian Concussion Centre to further research on the effect of trauma on women's brains.
Career statistics Career statistics are from Eliteprospects.com
Regular season Regular season Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM 1993–94 Mississauga Chiefs COWHL 22 8 6 14 10 1995–96 Mississauga Chiefs COWHL 19 2 7 9 12 1996–97 North York Aeros COWHL 31 9 27 36 20 1998–99 Beatrice Aeros NWHL 29 13 15 28 20 1999–00 Beatrice Aeros NWHL 34 17 18 35 18 2003–04 Calgary Oval X-Treme NWHL 9 7 8 15 6 NWHL totals 72 37 41 78 44
International
Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM 1994 Canada WC 5 1 1 2 2 1997 Canada WC 5 2 6 8 4 1998 Canada OG 6 1 2 3 8 1999 Canada WC 5 2 1 3 2 2000 Canada WC 5 3 3 6 0 2001 Canada WC 5 0 2 2 2 2002 Canada OG 5 2 1 3 2 2004 Canada WC 5 1 4 5 0 2005 Canada WC 5 2 3 5 2 2006 Canada OG 5 0 5 5 2 Senior totals 51 14 28 42 24
Awards and honours Award Year Canada's Sports Hall of Fame 2007Order of Hockey in Canada2012Abby Hoffman Cup 2000, 2001, 2003 NWHL Championship 1999-2000, 2002-03, 2003-04 WWHL Championship 2004-05 Top Forward at the National Championships 2000 CWHL Humanitarian Award 2013-14 Guelph Sportswoman of the Year 1996 Brampton Sports Hall of Fame 1997 Canada Games Hall of Honour 2009 Ontario Sport Legends Hall of Fame 2012 IIHF Hall of Fame 2026
Other awards 2008 A community centre is named after her in Brampton, Ontario. Cassie Campbell Community Centre 2016 Member of the Order of Canada
References
External links
Cassie Campbell – Women's Hockey #77 Defense The Lavin Agency: Campbell profile Cassie Campbell – Profile on Speakers Spotlight Cassie Campbell Community Centre Cassie Campbell bio at The Sweeney Agency (speakers bureau)