Julia Maughan was born in Westmount, Que., on April 7, 1972 and was raised all over the West Island region of Montreal, including stops in Beaconsfield, Dorval, Pointe Claire and Kirkland. Currently residing in Mississauga, Ont., where she recently became a mother for the first time, Maughan becomes the youngest inductee to the hallowed McGill Hall and the first to join a family member, joining her late grandfather George Maughan, a former Olympic boxer who was inducted posthumously in 2003.
Maughan starred on the soccer pitch at McGill from 1991 to 1995, earning an education degree in 1994 and a master's degree in 1996. She received All-Canadian honours four times in her five seasons, earning first team status in 1994 and 1995. She won three conference scoring titles (1993, 1994, 1995) and ended up netting 71 goals in 77 career games to become the team's all-time leading scorer.
In 1993, Maughan set a McGill single-season scoring record with 15 goals in 13 games but then broke that mark during the 1995 campaign with 26 goals in 21 games over-all, including eight game-winners. That season, she was voted team captain and led the nation in scoring with 19 markers in 12 regular season contests. She was named three times to the all-tournament team at the CIAU Nationals (1992, 1993 and 1994) and had a career-high four-goal performance in the 1993 Quebec league championship game, a 5-1 win at Sherbrooke on Nov. 7.
Maughan also starred in the classroom, winning the university's Uldis Auders memorial trophy in 1992-93 as the top sophomore who best combines academics and athletics. She earned Academic All-Canadian status in each of her five seasons, qualified for Principal's Student-athlete Honour Roll each year, was named to the Dean's Honour List three times, and was voted among the CIAU's Top 5 female Academic All-Canadians in 1994.
Inducted into the hall of fame - Oct 19, 06
