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38 Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 Dream nearly reality for Jenner By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Appleby College grad Brianne Jenner hopes to suit up for the Canadian women's hockey team at the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. The 18year-old is the youngest of 26 players invited to the team's centralized training camp in Calgary. PHOTO COURTESY HOCKEY CANADA Four years ago, Brianne Jenner sat on the couch (or at least the edge of it) in her family's living room, watching the Canadian women's hockey team play for Olympic gold. "It was pretty exciting," said Jenner. "Seeing them going against all the odds and pulling it out, it was amazing." Though Jenner had already established herself as a talented hockey player -- she was playing with a boys' bantam AAA team in St. Catharines at the time -- she had never envisioned herself competing for an Olympic medal, or least never let on that she had. "I don't think it's in Brianne's personality to talk about it that much," said her father, Dave. "She always had the next level in mind, whether it was the PWHL (Provincial Women's Hockey League) or the Ontario team, and I think she knew the national team eyes were watching, but she never really focused on that." Now, with the Vancouver Games less than three months away, the 18-year-old forward finds herself in the position of potentially being one of those players young girls across the country will be nervously watching in February. "You dream about playing for the senior team," said the youngest of the 26 players invited to the centralized training camp in Calgary, "but you never really expect it to happen, especially this early in your career." Jenner has never "You dream needed much time to about playing for progress in her career. By the age of 14 she had the senior team, already represented but you never Ontario at the national really expect it to under-18 champihappen, especially onships. At 15 she was this early in your the captain of the Stoney Creek Sabres in the career." PWHL. As a 17-year-old, she was playing in the Brianne Jenner Canadian Women's Hockey League with and against many of the same players she had watched in the Olympics. The next step was supposed to be college. Jenner was to begin her post-secondary education at Cornell this fall. But when the national team called in March, she delayed her acceptance by a year and reported to Calgary with the rest of the Olympic hopefuls in August. Since then, the team has not only played more See Jenner page 42 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Oakville Soccer Club Inc. will be held at the Oakville Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario, and not at the Pine Glen Soccer Centre as previously reported, on Saturday, 28th of November, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. for the following purposes: