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Janet Rogers Athletics Main Site University of Prince Edward Island UPEI Home Future Students Current Students Alumni & Friends Parents & Family Staff & Faculty Contacts SuckerfishHome Campus Recreation & Club Sports Athletics Facilities Schedule & Scores Athlete of the Week Contact Us Partnerships Box Office Recruitment Panther Sport TeamsMens Soccer Womens Soccer Womens Rugby Field Hockey Mens Basketball Womens Basketball Mens Hockey Womens Hockey Swimming Janet RogersMain NavigationAthletics Headlines UPEI Athletes Only Sports Centre Programs Sports Centre Hours Fitness and Wellness UPEI Sports Hall of Fame Summer Camps Student Athletic Council 2008Inductee Panther Physiotherapist For 44 years Janet Rogers devoted her life to fixing other peoples injuries and in particular the sprains pulls and healing fractures of UPEI Panther athletesJanet first underwent physiotherapy treatment when she was a teenager The experience must have left a strong impression because she went on to study it McGill receiving her diploma of physiotherapy in 1959 and her bachelor of physiotherapy in 1971 She began her career working with young polio patients She was staff physiotherapist at the Charlottetown Rehabilitation Centre from 1959 to1966 and director of physiotherapy services on PEI from 1966 to 1981 But a nephew who played junior hockey with the Abbies needed some help and before she knew it she was in the dressing room fixing up his teammates as well as the competition Word quickly spread about a physiotherapist with a passion for sports and a commitment to helping athletes stay in the gameFor years she worked in the rehab clinic during the day and worked on athletes after hours In 1986 she set up a private clinic in the Alumni gym where avid amateurs Olympians and future professionals used her skills to teach them the exercises and routines that would allow them to restore mobility to a damaged joint or limb and stay in the sports they lovedSays Vince Mulligan former coach of the hockey Panthers The thing about her was that she was really good at what she did She understood about the injuries but she also understood the athletes She knew about the nature of the sports and she knew about an athletes desire to get back into the game He said she was someone who wouldnt encourage an injured player to drop a sport if there was a healthy way for them to stay in competition She helped a lot of kids stay in sports Dave MacNeill a former coach of the UPEI womens basketball team and the present head of Sport PEI says Rogers skill in helping young athletes was matched by her commitment to themI was at the university with Janet for years and she was really looked up to She would be at all the games and would go on road trips She was in that clinic lots of nights and weekends looking after people ...