Game On Magazine - April 2017 Game on Preview Edition | Page 143

Left to right;
Jocelyne Larocque,
Brigette Laquette,
Halli Krzyzaniak
and Bailey Bram
MANITOBA WOMEN
INVITED TO
CENTRALIZED ROSTER
Bisons’ Anderson at Hockey
Canada Summer Showcase
University of Manitoba Bison
women’s defenseman Alexandra
Anderson, part of U SPORTS
Women’s Hockey All-Stars,
attended the Hockey Canada
Summer Showcase from Aug. 5-13.
Anderson is one of 21 in
attendance for U SPORTS. Bisons
Alanna Sharman, Lauryn Keen and
Erica Rieder were selected but were
unable to attend. It was the second
consecutive year the U SPORTS
All-Stars took part in the Summer
Showcase. They played two games
against each of Hockey Canada’s
National Women’s Development
Teams, as well as Japan’s national
women’s program. Anderson, 21,
completed her third season at
Manitoba and earned her first
U SPORTS All-Star
selection. She was a
2016-17 U SPORTS
Second Team
All-Canadian and
was a 2016-17
Canada West First
Team All-Star.
A Winnipegger,
Anderson was second in
U SPORTS in scoring by a
defenseman with 18 points
(four goals) while playing
in 27 of 28 conference regular
season games. Her 14 assists were
second among U SPORTS and
Canada West defensemen. The
5-foot-7 rearguard had a plus/minus
rating of plus 19, best among U
SPORTS defensemen.
Manitobans Brigette
Lacquette, Jocelyne
Larocque, Halli Krzyzaniak
and Bailey Bram were named
to Canada’s Olympic Women’s
Hockey Team’s Calgary-based
centralized roster.
Lacquette, 25, is from
Mallard, Man., Larocque, 29,
and Bram, 27, are from Ste.
Anne, and Krzyzaniak, 22,
hails from Neepawa.
There are 28 players on the
national centralized roster,
but only 23 of those players
will be with Team Canada
when the Winter Olympics
open in Pyeongchang, South
Korea, in February of 2018.
“One step closer,”
Tweeted Krzyzaniak, who
recently graduated from
the University of North
Dakota. “Excited and
honored to be a part
of this amazing
group of athletes.
Let’s get this show
on the road!”
Alexandra Anderson
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