While Cahow's mother was a professor at Yale University, her first exposure to the ice rink was through figure skating. After one figure skating practice, she saw hockey players take to the ice and noticed that the players had ponytails. From there, Cahow gave up figure skating and attended a kids' hockey clinic. Most of the students at the clinic were boys. Cahow's mother forced her to play her first year in hockey wearing figure skates.
NCAA
Cahow played four years at Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey in the ECAC Hockey. Led all ECACH defensemen with 37 points in 34 games. As a Junior : Led team defensemen with 28 points in 30 games.
During the 2012–13 CWHL season, Cahow was the captain of the Boston Blades. By season's end, she became the second American-born captain to help a team win the Clarkson Cup.
USA Hockey
She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She plays defense and is left-handed. Before the Olympics, Cahow captained the United States Under-22 Select Team in 2006 after the USA Hockey National Women's Festival in Lake Placid, New York.
JAL Hockey
Caitlin last played for the JD Whale, an adult recreational league based at Johnny's Ice House in Chicago, in Winter 2014–2015. JAL stands for Johnny's Adult League.
Cahow was born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Branford, Connecticut. She was named after figure skater Caitlin Carruthers, who won a silver medal for pairs skating with her brother, Peter Carruthers, at the 1984 Olympics. Cahow's mother, Barbara Kinder was a professor of surgery at Yale University. One of Cahow's heroes was Manon Rhéaume. The two got the opportunity to play together for the Minnesota Whitecaps. Cahow's father, Elton, was a surgeon and he died of cancer when she was only 11 years old. Cahow graduated from Harvard University in 2008 with a degree in anthropology. Cahow also studied the French language at Harvard and used it for an interview with French-Canadian media. As a student at Harvard, Cahow met Boston Lobsters tennis player Nicole Pratt. Cahow and Pratt developed a hockey-tennis dry-land workout which helped Pratt make a comeback at the French Open tennis tournament. Cahow has two brothers, Garrett and Christian. Cahow, who is openly lesbian, was chosen by US President Barack Obama as part of his delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Cahow lived in Vinalhaven, Maine, but now lives in Chicago and is an attorney at Jones Day
