MONTREAL – Jade Downie-Landry, a former McGill University standout and one of the school's most decorated hockey players, is coming home.
 
The Montréal Victoire of the Professional Women's Hockey League announced Friday that the 5-foot-9 forward has signed a one-year standard player agreement for the 2025-26 season.
 
A 29-year-old native of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., Downie-Landry spent the past two PWHL seasons with the New York Sirens, where she tallied 12 goals and seven assists in 54 games.
 
"Jade combines offensive touch with a strong physical presence," said Victoire general manager Danièle Sauvageau in a release issued by the team. "She has the ability to generate offence, win puck battles, and shut down opposing threats, making her dependable and a difference-maker at both ends of the ice."
 
Downie-Landry's journey to the professional ranks began at Dawson College before she joined the McGill Martlets in 2015. Over her five seasons at McGill, the team captain tallied 99 points including 41 goals, in 84 regular-season games and was instrumental in leading the Martlets to the national championship tournament in both 2019 and 2020. Including post-season and non-conference play, the three-time all-star and two-time All-Canadian registered 93 goals and 204 points in 165 contests overall.
 
She capped a brilliant university career by winning the Brodrick Trophy – the Canadian equivalent of the NCAA's Patty Kazmaier Award – as the U SPORTS player of the year in 2021-22. Downie-Landry earned first team All-Canadian honours and also received the Gladys Bean Trophy as McGill's female athlete of the year.

A 2020 graduate with an Arts degree, majoring in psychology, she returned to continue her studies in physical education before turning pro in 2022-23 with the Premier Hockey Federation's Montréal Force.  In January of 2023, she was among eight student-athletes honoured by Governor-General Mary Simon as the U SPORTS Top 8 Academic All-Canadians for the previous season, after achieving a grade point average of 3.93 (out of 4.00) and earning a spot on the Dean's Honour List.
 
"It's a dream come true to represent my hometown," said Downie-Landry. "There's nothing more special than putting on a Victoire jersey and playing for a city and fans that mean so much to me."
 
Downie-Landry was originally selected by New York in the ninth round (52nd overall) of the inaugural PWHL Draft in 2023, one of four U SPORTS graduates taken that year, alongside fellow McGill alumna Ann-Sophie Bettez.

The recipient of a recruitment bursary from the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence in 2016, Downie-Landry had an impressive debut in the university ranks, meriting RSEQ and U SPORTS all-rookie honours. She was selected to play with Hockey Canada's national development team for the Nations Cup U-22 tournament in 2017. In her junior year, she was named as an alternate captain for the Martlets and voted Team MVP. A conference all-star and a second-team All-Canadian, she was selected Tournament MVP at the 2019 U SPORTS national championship in Charlottetown. In her senior year, she repeated as Team MVP, an RSEQ all-star and second-tem All-Canadian.

In 2019, she became the sixth member of the Martlets to have her jersey on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, joining a select group that includes previous CIS tourney MVPs Kim St-Pierre (2000), Cathy Chartrand (2008), Catherine Ward (2009), Jordanna Peroff (2011) and Gabrielle Davidson (2014).

SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
McGill Athletics and Recreation
(514) 398- 7012
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca