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Shelly Hruska

Shelly Hruska is a Canadian Metis ringette and bandy player, coach, and teacher from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hruska helped lead Team Canada twice to victory at the World Ringette Championships in 2002 in Edmonton, Alberta and 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden where she played a key role on the team . In 2009, Hruska also helped Team Canada to a silver medal at the 2009 World Bandy Championship .

Early Life

At a young age, Hruska was involved in many sports, including ballet, tap dancing, softball, baseball, figure skating, and ringette. Having learned to skate on figure skates originally, Hruska's parents enrolled her in power skating to teach her to skate on hockey skates. Growing up in Winnipeg, Hruska joined a ringette team, where she enjoyed the team's cooperation, closeness, and team spirit, and eventually her love for the sport grew. Improving every day, Hruska made A-level ringette teams in Winnipeg and eventually became a very confident and strong ringette player by the age of 14.

Playing Career

At the age of 15, Hruska made the APFG Sixers, a AA provincial team. Hruska and the Sixers won the provincial championships and went on to represent Manitoba at the National Championships. Hruska was continually asked to represent Manitoba every year that followed, eventually helping Team Manitoba capture silver at the 1999 Canada Winter Games.

As her impressive playing career continued, she tried out for Team Canada and made the team in time for the 2002 World Ringette Championships in Edmonton, Alberta where Team Canada won gold defeating Finland 3-1. Hruska represented Team Canada once again at the 2004 World Ringette Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, where she was a key player in their victory.

Being a versatile athlete, in 2009, Hruska also helped Team Canada capture the silver medal at the World Bandy Championships.

Personal Life

When Hruska is not playing, she dedicates her time to her community. To give back to the sport, she is a certified Level 2 ringette coach and an instructor at the Lisa Brown Ringette Retreat in Calgary, Alberta. Hruska teaches grade eight math and science in Winnipeg as well as coaches the school's volleyball, basketball, and soccer teams. Hruska also acts as a motivational speaker to inspire Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities while promoting a healthy active lifestyle and its benefits.

Awards & Achievements

Year	Award	Notes
1999	Canada Winter Games Ringette Runner Up	Team Manitoba
2002	World Ringette Champion	Team Canada in Edmonton, Alberta
2004	World Ringette Champion	Team Canada in Stockholm, Sweden
2004	Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Award	Winner
2005	Tom Longboat Award as Manitoba's Aboriginal Athlete of the Year	Co-Winner with Garnet Desjarlais of Winnipeg (ball hockey)
2009	World Bandy Championship Runner Up	Team Canada

Shelly Hruska Peer Edits

Great job Courtney! I really think that you have done Shelly Hruska justice on this page. I made a few minor grammatical and sentence changes throughout. I also have a few considerations for you that I think may further improve the page.

1. Do you know Shelly/Shelley's preferred spelling of her name? If she has one, I would go with that and remove the "sometimes spelled Shelley".
2. Do you know Shelly's exact birth date? If not, I think not providing a birth date is ok. Regardless, I think removing the 1979/1980 is appropriate.
3. To add more detail to the 'Early Life' section, do you know any years to add to the timeline? For example, the years she started figure skating, made the switch to hockey skates, or the first year that she made an 'A' level ringette team.
4. Finally, what are the World Bandy Championships? I know there isn't a wiki page to hyperlink to but I think confirming whether or not bandy is the same as ringette would be helpful.

Overall, excellent work! I think Shelly will love it and you have really created a professional looking Wikipedia page!

Thanks, Teal! I have made some changes based on your comments. Unfortunately, I don't have much info regarding birthdate or timeline for her early life. But thank you so much for your input! I hope the changes I have made helped.

- Courtney

Shelley Hruska First Drafts

Shelly Hruska also sometimes spelled Shelly (born 1979/1980) is a Canadian Metis ringette and bandy player, coach, and teacher. Hruska helped lead Team Canada twice to victory at the World Ringette Championships in 2002 in Edmonton, Alberta and 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden where she played a key role on the team. In 2009, Hruska also helped Team Canada to a silver medal at the 2009 World Bandy Championship.

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Shelley Hruska (born 1979/1980) is a Canadian World Champion ringette and bandy player, coach, and teacher. In 2002, Hruska helped lead Canada to victory at the World Ringette Championship in Edmonton, Alberta beating Finland 3-1 to take home the gold medal as well, as at the 2004 World Ringette Championship in Stockholm, Sweden where Team Canada won gold again. Hruska is currently an eighth-grade math and science teacher in Winnipeg Manitoba where she also coaches a variety of all-girls teams, including volleyball, basketball, and soccer ^[8]. She also teaches and coaches ringette at the Lisa Brown Ringette Retreat in Calgary, Alberta.

Early Life[edit | edit source]

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Certified Level 2 Ringette Coach 

2004: winner of the Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Award

2005: winner of the Tom Longboat Award as Manitoba's Aboriginal Athlete of the Year

co-won with Garnet Desjarlais of Winnipeg (ball hockey) 

Shelley Hruska Info

http://www.metismuseum.ca/media/db/11639 → http://www.metismuseum.ca/resource.php/11639

· Metis woman, approximately 37 years old (1979/1980)

· Ringette World Champion, Team Canada and Team Manitoba, plays for Canada National Women’s Bandy team, which captured the silver medal in the 2009 World Championship.

· In 2004, she was awarded a Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Award

· is a certified Level 2 ringette coach and an instructor at the Lisa Brown Ringette School

· She began playing ringette at the age of five

· Team Canada’s gold medal performance at the 2004 World Ringette Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. The Team also took gold in 2002, and in 1999 Shelly played for Team Manitoba, winning a silver medal at the 1999 Canada Winter Games.

· dedicates countless hours within the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities as a motivational speaker, inspiring her audience to get involved in their community and promoting the benefits of choosing a healthy lifestyle

· In 2005, Shelly Hruska of Winnipeg (Ringette) and Garnet Desjarlais of Winnipeg (Ball Hockey) were named winners of the Tom Longboat Award as Manitoba’s Aboriginal Athletes of the Year

http://www.ringette.ca/inductees/2002-world-ringette-championship-team/

· 2002: Team Canada gold medal for ringette over Finland 3-1 in Edmonton, AB

http://www.nationalringetteleague.ca/stats/player.php?id=524

· Played for Prairie Fire 2008-2009

· Plays centre, shoots left

· from Winnipeg, MB

Schilling, V. (2007). Native athletes in action! (Chapter 8). Oregon: Seventh Generation Books. http://www.apelslice.com/books/0-00-BRITE/978-0-9779183-0-0/ch7.htm

· information about what ringette is

· Almost from the time she could walk, she had been involved in figure skating, as well as in tap dancing and ballet. In her neighborhood, she could also play softball, baseball, and ringette.

· only knew how to skate on figure skates. I was so bad on regular skates that my parents put me into power skating."

· Whenever she moved to a different part of Winnipeg she made an A-Team

· By the time she was fourteen, Shelly was a confident player. That year in the playoffs, her A-team came up against Alberta. "We were super young—and they were three years older than we were. We gave them their only loss all year, and by more than one goal!"

· At fifteen, Shelley made the APFG Sixers, one of the AA teams that compete at the provincial level. The Sixers won the provincial champions and became Team Manitoba at the Nationals.

· In the meantime, Shelly contributes both to ringette and the children in her community. She is a certified, level-two ringette coach, and has been an instructor at the Lisa Brown Ringette Retreat, based in Calgary, Alberta.

· She teaches eighth-grade math and science in Winnipeg, and coaches all-girl volleyball, basketball, and soccer teams.

Forsyth, J., & Giles, A.R. (Eds.). (2013). Aboriginal Peoples & Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

· Metis from Winnipeg

· key role in Canada's gold medal at the 2004 World Ringette Championships

· now a teacher and contributing to the sport and community well-being

TRC Edits

→ In Commission section: too many quotes that aren't integrated into the paragraphs easily, could have been paraphrased

→ "Neglect" in the second paragraph of "background" should be hyperlinked to the wiki page on neglect so it can be easily understood (similar to the references to physical abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse" wiki pages

→ In Background section, there are some points about how the TRC was carried out that are not referenced

→ Citations #5 & #23 are dead links

→ Could have more references in the "Calls to Action" section to back up the statements, specifically in Education, Health and Justice

→ Calls for Action section could use more information on what is being done to accomplish these