It’s not easy being a hockey player in Pangnirtung, a community of fewer than 1,500 on Baffin Island, but Jordyn Machmer is showing what family, and community, support can do for young athletes with goals.
Jordyn Machmer, 11, is on Team Nunavut's U20 female hockey team at the Arctic Winter Games. 'Her skill, her determination and her commitment level to the game is something I haven't seen in a long time,' says the coach."You have to have a goal, and she had that goal and she did it and she worked hard for it," said David Kilabuk about his daughter, the youngest player on Team Nunavut's U20 female hockey team at the Arctic Winter Games .
Savikataaq had his eye on Jordyn since first seeing her play hockey at Toonik Tyme — the annual spring festival in Iqaluit — in April 2019. She was only eight years old."Her skill, her determination and her commitment level to the game is something I haven't seen in a long time. So she's certainly caught our attention with everything she does."Team captain Maddy Savikataaq. 'Honestly, she is so talented ... you couldn’t tell the difference between age on the ice.
Jordyn, on far right, in a family photo. Her dad is next to her and her mom, Sheena, holding a young boy. The entire family wants to see Jordyn succeed. "We can't register our players in the fall like other communities do with [Hockey Nunavut] until after January, and then that time we're not on the radar with Hockey Nunavut as far as coaching clinics go or referee clinics, so we're kinda late for everything 'cause our arena opens too late," Kilabuk said.Kilabuk said Jordyn started playing hockey in the house, then moved on to the ice at around the age of three or four years old.
"Her older brother played in the AWG as well, three times," Kilabuk said. "Brought back a lot of memories and she has her own memories now, too, so that's great."Jordyn, in the pink helmet, has been called the 'baby' of the team.Sheena, Jordyn's mother, held fundraisers to help pay for Kilabuk's travel from Pangnirtung to Fort McMurray.
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