| Renata Fast | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Renata Fast playing for Team Canada in 2017 | |||
| Born | (1994-10-06)October 6, 1994 (age 31) Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | ||
| Weight | 143 lb (65 kg; 10 st 3 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shoots | Right | ||
| PWHL team Former teams | Toronto Sceptres | ||
| National team |  Canada | ||
| Playing career | 2010–present | ||
Renata Fast (born October 6, 1994) is a Canadian professionalice hockey player for theToronto Sceptres of theProfessional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and member ofCanada women's national ice hockey team. She playedcollege ice hockey atClarkson and won the 2014National Collegiate women's ice hockey championship title. She made her debut with team Canada at the2015 4 Nations Cup, held from November 4–8 inSundsvall,Sweden.[1] She went on to represent theCanada women's national ice hockey team at the 2016 4 Nations Cup in Vierumäki, Finland, November 1–5.[2] She competed in the 2017 Women's World Championships in Plymouth, Michigan, losing in overtime to the United States.[3] She competed at the2018 Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal.[4]
On September 6, 2023, Fast signed a three-year deal with thePWHL Toronto of the newly formed newProfessional Women's Hockey League.[5]
In her second year (2013–2014), theClarkson Golden Knights women's ice hockey team made history by winning their school's first NCAA Championship. In the process, the team also became the first team from outside the WCHA to win the women's National Collegiate national championship. In her senior year, she lived up to her surname by scoring the quickest goal in NCAA Tournament history, just 10 seconds in for the game-winner against Quinnipiac in the NCAA quarterfinal game.Renata Fast served as an assistant captain in her Junior and Senior years.[6]
Selected for Hockey Canada's National Women's Development Team 2014 and 2015 for the three-game series vs. the United States Women's Under-22 National Team, played during August in Calgary (2014) and Lake Placid (2015)[7]She was a member of Canada's National Women's Development Team that won a gold medal at the 2015 Nations Cup (formerly known as the Meco Cup).[8]She was a member of Canada's National Women's Development Team, which won a silver medal at the 2017 Nations Cup in Germany.[9]
She made her debut with theCanada women's national ice hockey team at the2015 4 Nations Cup, held from November 4–8 in Sundsvall, Sweden. Where they placed silver.[1] She represented theCanada women's national ice hockey team at the same tournament in 2016, the 4 Nations Cup in Vierumäki, Finland, Nov. 1–5.[2]
She competed in the2017 IIHF Women's World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan, losing in overtime to the United States.[3] She was selected for the 2017/2018 centralization roster in preparation for the2018 Olympic Games to take place from February 9 to 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.[4] She was named to the 2018 Olympic GamesCanada women's national ice hockey team competing in Pyeongchang County, South Korea where she wore No. 14.[10][11] TheCanada women's national ice hockey team earned a silver medal at the 2018 Olympic Games in a shootout.
On January 11, 2022, Fast was named toCanada's 2022 Olympic team.[12][13][14]
She was selected second overall by theToronto Furies in the2016 CWHL Draft.[15] Fast's first season of play saw her appear in 22 of the Furies 24 games. She would put forth four goals and five assists in those games and finished the regular season as a plus five for plus/minus. Fast was a finalist for the CWHL's Rookie of the Year and was named a 2016–17 all star.[16]
Following the launch of the newProfessional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), Fast was one of three players (alongside fellow Canadian Olympians Blayre Turnbull and Sarah Nurse) signed within a pre-draft period toPWHL Toronto.
She was born inHamilton, Ontario and raised inBurlington, Ontario. Renata is the youngest of four siblings.[17] Her sister is Lindsey Fast, and her brothers are Christopher and Gregory Fast.[18] Her parents are Sharon and Douglas Fast.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2010–11 | Burlington Jr. Barracudas | Prov. WHL | 36 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 50 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 18 | ||
| 2011–12 | Burlington Jr. Barracudas | Prov. WHL | 33 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 72 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | ||
| 2012–13 | Clarkson University | ECAC | 38 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2013–14 | Clarkson University | ECAC | 41 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2014–15 | Clarkson University | ECAC | 29 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 38 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2015–16 | Clarkson University | ECAC | 36 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2016–17 | Toronto Furies | CWHL | 22 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 38 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2017–18 | Canada | AMHL | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2017–18 | Toronto Furies | CWHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2018–19 | Toronto Furies | CWHL | 26 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 2019–20 | GTA West | PWHPA | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2020–21 | Toronto | PWHPA | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2022–23 | Team Adidas | PWHPA | 20 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2023–24 | PWHL Toronto | PWHL | 24 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 2024–25 | Toronto Sceptres | PWHL | 30 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| CWHL totals | 49 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 86 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| PWHL totals | 54 | 9 | 26 | 35 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||
Sources:[19]
| Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Canada | WC |  | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 | Canada | OG | | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2019 | Canada | WC |  | 7 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 4 | |
| 2021 | Canada | WC |  | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| 2022 | Canada | OG | | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | |
| 2022 | Canada | WC | | 7 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| 2023 | Canada | WC | | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |
| 2024 | Canada | WC | | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | |
| 2025 | Canada | WC | | 7 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 4 | |
| Senior totals | 59 | 7 | 32 | 39 | 38 | ||||
