WHAT'S HAPPENING AT UNB
ALUMNI NEWS MAGAZINE | Summer 2022
Women's HockeyJust four years after being reinstated, the women's hockey team took home the Atlantic University Sport championship.
The fifth-year defender from the Garden River First Nation came to the REDS after playing four seasons with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.
Inspired by her own experience, Jana organized and executed a six-week learn-to-play program for First Nations girls from around the Fredericton area. The program, run by the REDS, was provided cost-free. Working closely with KidSport and Fredericton’s Brendon Oreto Foundation, Jana raised more than $13,000 and donations of equipment.
This meant all participants in the program, ranging in age from six to 10, were provided all the necessary equipment to play hockey. Headrick also secured government funding to allow camp participants to join Fredericton’s female hockey league, free of charge. Jana’s efforts have made her a role model and difference-maker on the team and in the community.
Last March, she was recognized with the Marion Hilliard Award for student-athlete community service.
A master’s student in UNB’s Sports and Recreation Studies program, she maintained a 4.3 GPA in the fall semester and played all 21 of the REDS regular-season games, recording two goals and six assists.
“Our stories are being heard and what we were saying is not being lost,” says Jana. “People are believing that what happened at residential schools was as bad as the stories say they were. Anything that we can do right now to support Indigenous peoples is going to be meaningful and is going to be super important, in the future, moving towards our goal of reconciliation.” As her U SPORTS career ends, the veteran is hopeful the program she started will, someday, supply the REDS with locally grown talent.”
In her third year of eligibility with the REDS, Lexie Shannon (middle) won gold in the women’s triple jump at the 2022 U Sports Track and Field Championships, held in Saint John. The win earned her 1st Team All-Canadian status.
The men’s hockey team took home their 18th Atlantic University Sport title.
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