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Giving Back to the Game

09/18/2014, 9:15am MDT
By Brenna Payne

Women's veteran still heavily involved in the game

Shawna Davidson, a three-time member of the United States Women’s National Team (1990, 1992, 1994), remains very involved in the game. Currently in her 18th year of service on USA Hockey’s Board of Directors, she is a director at large and also as a member of the Player Development Committee.
Having played on USA Hockey’s first three IIHF Women’s World Championship teams, Shawna is excited by how far women’s hockey has progressed in a relatively short time.

“I take pride in knowing we were the pioneers,” she said. “I bleed red, white and blue, and I love watching our current women’s program. It’s great to see how well the teams are taken care of with training, nutrition and all of the opportunities that are presented to the players.”

These days, Shawna finds herself being a pioneer in another discipline: women’s sled hockey. As a coach of the U.S. Women’s Sled Hockey Team, she is excited to see the start of what will hopefully become a Paralympic discipline.

“The International Paralympic Committee has approved the first ever Women’s World Cup for this November in Canada. We are working hard to make this an exhibition sport for the 2018 Paralympic Games in PyeongChang, Korea,” said Davidson.

The women’s sled team is currently funded through private donations as well as through a grant awarded this spring from The USA Hockey Foundation.

For more on the Women’s Sled Team, visit: http://www.uswomensledgehockey.org/

 

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