Jessica Anderson

    My name is Jessica Anderson, I'm 21 years old, born and live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am attending Concordia University. I just graduated from John Abbott College from a program called Office System Technology. I've played for The John Abbott College Lady Islanders for the past four years. I'm now playing for The Concordia Stingers. I'm a goalie of course.

    I have a style that I suppose resembles that of Mike Richter. You should play your own game and not try to imitate anyone, but I think Ritcher is so superb with his techniques, I cant help it. I tend to drop my stick an awful lot to freeze the puck with my blocker, but I do try to stay on my feet as often as possible.

    I started hockey mainly because I wanted to be goalie... don't ask me why goalie, it's just in my veins. I was playing ringuette before that time and always wanting to be a goalie, but no one ever let me. So I left and went to the brand-new hockey league opening for girls. They let me be goalie, so I was happy. I just fell in love with hockey from then on...

    One of my favorite goalie is Pat Jablonski. He's just a great guy, even if he never gets to play in the NHL, well on occasion he does, he has a great attitude, I really admire him. I started wacthing him while he was playing for The Canadiens. My other favorites are Mike Richter, Ron Hextall, Rick Tabaracci, Bill Ranford, Glen Healy, Martin Brodeur, Curtis Joseph, who else needs a mention...? Oh yeah, that great British goalie, Byron Dafoe! Well, the list goes on, I have a tendancy to like mainly the "stand-up" goalies, and turn away from the "butter-flies"...Don't get me wrong, there are a lot I like! I like most of the goalies in the NHL, but there are a few who I can't stand. Even if this IS MY page, I'm not going to say who I dislike, I know everyone has their own choices, who am I to say who's good or not?

    Some non-goalie related things I like... Hmmm, well I love music, but I kinda stick to people I like... Like my all-time favourite singer is none other than the legendary Ziggy Stardust. Maybe you know him by another name? The Thin White Duke? Aladdin Sane? Here's a name that should ring a bell, of course I'm talking about David Bowie! I don't have enough web-space to tell you WHY, but I do know that there's nothing I DON'T like about him... Sorry, I get kinda carried away when I think about him. I also love The Doors, The Tea Party, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, and The Beatles. I tend to like to "old" stuff more...but hey, have you heard the new Bowie stuff? If you didn't know him like I do, you would swear he was from our generation x crowd! Some of my favourite actors are Val Kilmer, Jason Patrick, Ray Liotta, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, and Nicolas Cage (Who I saw at a David Bowie concert here in Montreal last august 1997!! Hehe, there I go again)

  Ok, back to hockey... My first team was the Lakeshore Jaguars. I played with them the next year too. That second year, John Abbott College asked me to play in a tourney with them...we won silver medal after they had not even won a game that whole season, while I won MVP of the tourney, winning myself a new goalie stick...woohoo! The next year, I'm on The John Abbott team and we attended the World's Largest Women's Hockey Tourney in Brampton, Ontario, and won Gold in our division. Oh yeah, since we had three goalie that year, I didn't see a whole lot of ice, so in one tourney, I decided to side with an opposing team(their goalies were all hurt, and our team said it was ok). The team I sided with were not even supposed to be in the tourney, they were not very good at all...but we managed to come up with the silver! They loved me so much, they joked about re-naming their team after me, hehe. Well I got a kick out of that. As a result of me playing, I again won the MVP for the tourney...another goalie stick :)

    The next year I played with John Abbott College once more. That year was very fun...even though we hardly won a game. Hey! What do you expect when you are playing teams like Concordia!

    The year following(1999-2000, I played with John Abbott(Above) and we had our own CEGEP league, so no more Concordia, hehe. We put up a good fight that year.

    The next year was my final year(2000-2001, I'm on the Left) at John Abbott(above). I won goaltender of the year for my league, and I also won Most Valuable Player for my team. Only thing I didnt win was a new goalie stick...

    The next year(2001-2002) I played for Concordia University. We went to the Nationals in Regina, and came in First place in our league.

    With any luck, I'm going to play goaltender until something absolutely forces me out of this great position! Hey, I'll always have room for more won goalie sticks!

Jessica Anderson
June 2001
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