Sami-Jo Small

Sami-Jo Small became a household name when she backstopped the Canadian National Women’s hockey team to a gold medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. As a mechanical engineering major at Stanford, Small designed special upper body padding for her senior project. She was named PAC-10 Hockey Player of the Year in 1997. Small was the goaltender for the Brampton Thunder for two seasons and won Gold Medals at the World Championships in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Sami Jo currently works as a motivational speaker as well is an owner of a hockey school that runs throughout four provinces. Beyond Sami’s playing career, she played a key role in hockey organizations and as of 2018 she became the general manager of the Toronto Furies. After her position with the Toronto Furies, she became the president in of the Toronto Six, a women’s ice hockey team in the Premier Hockey Federation.