Jayna Hefford

Jayna Hefford, born on 14 May 1977 in Trenton, Ontario, is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and the executive vice president of hockey operations for the Professional Women's Hockey League. She started in ringette before moving to ice hockey, played for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and for the Mississauga Chiefs and Brampton Thunder, and won multiple medals at the Winter Olympics and the IIHF Women's World Championships. She helped Canada win four straight Olympic gold medals from 2002 to 2014, scored the gold medal winning goal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and also won silver at the 1998 Games in Nagano. At club level across three leagues she scored 439 goals in 418 games, including a league record 44 goals in 2008-09. She was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018 and served as interim commissioner of the Canadian Women's Hockey League.