CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI – McGill forward Jade Downie-Landry was honoured with the Brodrick Trophy as U SPORTS women's hockey player of the year at the annual All-Canadian awards gala, Wednesday night.
 
The puck drops on the 2022 U SPORTS Cavendish Farms women's hockey championship in Charlottetown on Thursday and concludes Sunday with the gold medal game at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT.

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A 5-foot-9 centre from St. Jean sur Richelieu, Que., Downie-Landry won the RSEQ scoring title and led the nation in both goals (14) and points (27) in only 15 games. Her 1.80 points per game was also tops in U SPORTS. The 25-year-old physical education senior either assisted or scored on 50 percent of McGill's 54 regular season goals and led the Martlets to a first-place regular-season finish and a silver medal in the RSEQ championship. Downie-Landry tallied four power-play markers, two game-winners and a hat-trick.

A three-time All-Canadian, she is one of 15 McGill products to earn national athlete of the honours in any sport andbecomes the fifth McGill player to win the Brodrick Trophy, joining Kim St-Pierre (2003), Ann-Sophie Bettez (2012), Mélodie Daoust (2013) and Katia Clément-Heydra.
 
The captain of the Martlets, Downie-Landry's 202 career points in 163 games ranks eighth in McGill history. In her junior season, she was named Tournament MVP at the U SPORTS championship in Charlottetown and became the sixth member of the Martlets to have their jersey on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Downie-Landry will look to bring another U SPORTS banner to an already storied McGill program at the 2022 national championship.

Past Award Winners
 
Other laureates went to StFX forward Abby Lewis, who captured rookie-of-the-year honours and UNB defender Jana Headrick, who earned the Marion Hilliard Award for student-athlete community service for her outstanding contribution both on and off the ice. Finally, Toronto bench boss Vicky Sunohara was named Fox 40 coach of the year.  Each of the major award recipients and first-team All-Canadians will receive customized rings from Baron, the exclusive provider of championship rings and recognition jewelry of U SPORTS.

Lewis, a forward in her first year of eligibility from Kanata, Ont., was honoured as the AUS rookie of the year and garnered AUS all-rookie status. A 5-foot-10 left winger in her second year in the human kinetics program at STFX, she played in all 21 regular-season games for the AUS finalist X-Women. Playing on the top line, Lewis recorded 19 points, including nine goals, and help guide the X-Women to a 15-6-0 third-place finish. She also had two game-winning goals and a plus/minus rating of plus-7 as she finished eighth overall in AUS scoring and 13th in the nation. She is the fifth player from the X-Women to be named the conference's top rookie. 
 
Headrick, a fifth-year defender from Garden River First Nation in Ontario came to UNB after playing four seasons with the Toronto Varsity Blues and has been a role model and difference-maker for both her team and the community. A master's student in sports and recreation studies, she maintained a 4.3 GPA in the fall semester and played in all 21 regular-season games with the Reds. She recorded two goals, six assists and a plus-5 in the plus-minus ratings. Inspired by her own experience as a young athlete, Headrick organized and executed a six-week Indigenous Girls Learn to Play hockey camp run by the Reds. In order to provide a cost-free opportunity for aspiring athletes to learn about the game, she worked closely with partners at KidSport and the Brendon Oreto Foundation to raise over $13,000, as well as equipment. This meant all participants — who ranged in age from six to 10 — were provided free gear head-to-toe. Headrick also secured enough government funding to allow camp participants to join Fredericton's female hockey league free of charge. The last AUS student-athlete to take home the national honour was St. Thomas' Kayla Blackmore following the 2012-13 season.

Sunohara is the recipient of her second U SPORTS coach of the year award as her Blues did not suffer a regulation loss during the season and ranked in the U SPORTS Top 10 for six straight weeks, including the number one ranking since December. The veteran bench boss guided her team to an OUA-best 48 goals on the year – averaging three per contest – while also limiting opponents to a league-low 16. Sunohara was previously the U SPORTS coach of the year in 2019-20 and is a former two-time all-star as a player for the Blues (1990-92). She is also one of the most decorated women in Canadian hockey history as a three-time Olympic medalist and an eight-time world championship medalist, amassing 119 points in 164 games while donning the Maple Leaf.
 
ALL-CANADIAN & ALL-ROOKIE TEAMS

First Team All-Canadians
Pos.	First Name	Last Name	School
F	Shae	Demale	Saint Mary's
F	Jade	Downie-Landry	McGill
F	Maria	Dominico	Nipissing
D	Brigitte	Laganière	Concordia
D	Rylind	MacKinnon	UBC
G	Erica	Fryer	Toronto
Second Team All-Canadians
F	Jolena	Gillard	UPEI
F	Stéphanie	Lalancette	Concordia
F	Tianna	Ko	Mount Royal
D	Lauren	Dabrowski	StFX
D	Gabrielle	De Serres	Toronto
G	Zoe	De Beauville	Mount Royal
All-Rookie Team
F	Abby	Lewis	StFX
F	Émilie	Lavoie	Concordia
F	Natalie	Kieser	Alberta
D	Maddy	Corbett	Saint Mary's
D	Sophia	Gaskell	UBC
G	Amaya	Giraudier	StFX