Jayna Hefford

Jayna Hefford is a member of the Gold Medal winning Canadian Women’s OlympicHockey Team that competed at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games held in Salt Lake City. Itwas Jayna’s goal, with one second left in the second period, that stood up as the eventualgame-winning goal. She was also a member of the Canadian Women’s Hockey Team thatwon the Silver Medal at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games held in Nagano.

Jayna has played on four World Championship teams (1997, 1999, 2000 & 2001),winning four Gold Medals. Jayna was the top scorer at the 2000 and 1999 Women’sWorld Hockey Championships, scoring at least one point in all of Canada’s gamesat the 2000 Championship.

Jayna is a member of the Brampton Thunder of the National Women’s Hockey League. She wasnamed the 1996 - 1997 Ontario Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Association Rookie of the Year andwas the top scorer in the OWIAA while playing with the University of Toronto. She was a Gold Medallistand Team Captain at the 1995 Canada Winter Games and a Gold Medallist at the Under 18 Nationalswith Team Ontario. Jayna played all of her minor hockey in Kingston, Ontario.

In 1998 Jayna was named Kingston, Ontario’s Amateur Athlete of the Year. She is a Nationalspokesperson, with National Hockey League star Paul Kariya, for the Canadian Hockey Association’sInitiation Program. Jayna runs the Jayna Hefford/Lori Dupuis Hockey School with teammateLori Dupuis.

Inducted June 12, 2002