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Alberta Pandas
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Alberta Website Links
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CIS Universities
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University of Alberta
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University of Alberta
Welcome to Field Hockey BC's guide to post-secondary education for field hockey players
The Alberta Pandas Women's Field Hockey Team claim their second consecutive CIS silver medal at the 2009 CIS Championships. Overall the Pandas ended their season with an impressive 3-7-2 record in the Canada West division and 5-10-2 overall.
In the summer of 2002, former University of Alberta star field hockey player Carla Duncan became the team’s fifth head coach in the program’s 30-year history, and led the Pandas to their first CIS championship victory in 2005. Carla Duncan Somerville will step down from her role as Head Coach with the Pandas field hockey team this season, and turn the whistle over to former player and assistant coach AJ Facendi.
 
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University of Alberta - Athletics
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Sports teams and organized physical training were part of the University of Alberta's activities from its beginning in 1908. University of Alberta's Golden Bears and Alberta Pandas are a dominant force in the university varsity sports realm and offers 12 varsity sports for men and 11 for women. The Golden Bears and the Alberta Panda's have a total of 57 National Titles and a total 194 Canada West Titles.
As of November 2006, the Pandas women's hockey team have won the Canada West Conference 7 times in the 8 year history of competition. In addition, they have claimed the national championship five times in the last seven years.
The Pandas women's volleyball team are perennially national contenders. They previously won 6 national titles in a row beginning in the mid 1990s. The Golden Bears men's hockey team has played in the CIS University Cup finals, winning an unprecedented 13 times. Every fall the team plays against the Edmonton Oilers rookies. In 2006 they lost 6-3, ending their five game winning streak against the rookies.
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University of Alberta - Education
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The University of Alberta’s vision since its inception 100 years ago has been to be one of the world’s great universities for the public good, an institution for the “uplifting of the whole people” in the words of our first president, Henry Marshall Tory.
University of Alberta leads the country with 28 professors who have received national 3M Teaching Fellowships—Canada’s highest award for undergraduate university teaching excellence. Along with their largest Canadian academic staff, University of Alberta, is the heart of nanotechnology research in Canada. The 20,000-square-metre building is one of the world’s most technologically advanced research facilities.
Another highlight includes the university's School of Public Heath program. The University of Alberta has Canada’s first stand-alone Faculty dedicated to public health to focus on safety, wellness, and prevention.
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Pandas Claim Second Consecutive CIS Silver Medal by CIS Communications
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Pandas Claim Second Consecutive CIS Silver Medal (November 8, 2009) VICTORIA (CIS) – The second-seeded UBC Thunderbirds won a record-setting 12th CIS women’s field hockey title with a 6-0 gold-medal defeat of the No. 5 Alberta Pandas, Sunday afternoon at the University of Victoria.
The Thunderbirds’ triumph, their first since 2006, gives them one more McCrae Cup championship than Victoria and two more than Toronto.
The Pandas, who claimed their lone McCrae Cup in 2005 with a 2-1 penalty strokes victory over UBC in the only previous final between the two teams, lost in the title match for the second year in a row as the No. 5 seed. Alberta was defeated 2-1 by Victoria in the 2008 final.
The six-goal offensive output is a record for a single team in a medal match since the inaugural CIS tournament in 1975. The previous high was five by Alberta in a 5-0 shutout of York in the 1996 bronze-medal game, the same year Toronto set the previous mark for most goals in the national final with a 4-2 win over Victoria.
Reigning CIS rookie of the year Abigail Raye of Kelowna, B.C., led the outburst with her first two goals of the tournament (27th minute, 60th).
Elise Milosevich (1st) of Duncan, B.C., with her team-leading third of the competition, Robyn Pendleton (13th) of Victoria, Whitney Kroll (50th) of West Vancouver and Kira Graham (61st) of North Vancouver rounding out the scoring. Pendleton, Kroll and Graham were all scoring for a second time this week.
Pendleton, a first-team all-Canadian forward, was named the championship’s most valuable player. She was one of three T-Birds named to the tournament all-star team, along with fellow first-team all-Canadian Milosevich and Kristyn Harrington of West Vancouver.
Third-year UBC defender Kirsten Bertsch of Duncan was named MVP of the final, while Alberta player-of-the-game honours went to fifth-year forward Bunny Hughes of Victoria.
“This is the game we’ve been dreaming of,” said Pendleton, who captured her first CIS title in her third campaign with the T-Birds. “It’s a pretty good way to finish a season. As a team we did really well and we finished our opportunities, which ultimately made all the difference.”
UBC got on the board shortly after the opening whistle with Milosevich scoring 55 seconds into the contest.
UBC had built a 3-0 lead by halftime.
“They were on fire today, they were really moving the ball well,” said Hash Kanjee, who has coached UBC to six CIS titles. “It took the pressure off early and after that we got into a groove and we did the right things and I’m really happy for them.”
The T-Birds, Canada West champions seven years running, finished the tournament with an undefeated record of 4-0-1 and outscored their opponents 16-3.
It was the 17th appearance in the national final for UBC, which won its first CIS title in 1978.
SCORING SUMMARY
UBC: 3-3: 6
Alberta: 0-0: 0
First half
1st, UBC, Elise Milosevich (3)
13th, UBC, Robyn Pendleton (2)
27th, UBC, Abigail Raye (1)
Second half
50th, UBC, Whitney Kroll (2)
60th, UBC, Abigail Raye (2)
61st, UBC, Kira Graham (2)
Goaltenders
UBC: Dina Bulfone (W, 70:00, 0 GA, 4-0-1)
ALB: Tory Spencer (L, 70:00, 6 GA, 2-3-0)
Players of the game
UBC: Kirsten Bertsch (Duncan, B.C.)
ALB: Bunny Hughes (Victoria, B.C.)
TOURNAMENT XI
Championship MVP: Robyn Pendleton (Victoria, B.C.), UBC
R.W. Pugh Fair Play award: UBC Thunderbirds
Perri Espeseth (Duncan, B.C.), Victoria
Kristyn Harrington (West Vancouver, B.C.), UBC
Bunny Hughes (Victoria, B.C.), Alberta
Anna Sophie Kehrein (Speyet, Germany), Toronto
Kyla Kirby (Victoria, B.C.), Victoria
Elise Milosevich (Duncan, B.C.), UBC
Robyn Pendleton (Victoria, B.C.), UBC
Brienne Stairs (Kitchener, Ont.), Guelph
Jackie Trautman (Delta, B.C.), Alberta
Kaelan Watson (Richmond, B.C.), Toronto
Kristine Wishart (Hamilton, Ont.), Guelph
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