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UPEI Womens Soccer Program receives National Leadership Award 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 UPEI Womens Soccer Program receives National Leadership AwardUPEI Womens SoccerHeadlines Roster Coaching Staff Schedule & Scores Standings & Stats History & Awards Community Page CharlottetownThe UPEI womens soccer program has received a $5000 award from the national True Sport Community Fund for leadership in community sports development work UPEI womens soccer team captain Mandy Lise McKenna were presented with a certificate of the award at the start of the teams home game against Cape Breton University on Saturday We are very proud of our womens soccer program says coach Michael Redmond Our athletes believe strongly in making social changelocally and globally These young women are wonderful student athletes who represent themselves and their school community and country with great pride They are a wonderful example of what sport should represent The True Sport Community Fund is administered on behalf of the JW McConnell Family Foundation and the True Sport Foundation a charitable organization committed to the belief that sport makes a powerful and positive contribution to the development of people and their communities True Sport believes in valuedriven sport founded on four core values of fairness excellence inclusion and funThe UPEI womens soccer program is a leader in community sports development in Canada says Redmond This year the team participated in many activities across the Island with the goal of making positive change in their own community Activities included hosting the annual 12hour SOS Childrens Villages soccer game organizing a Valentines Day teddy bear drive for the pediatric ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and indoor and March Break soccer programs visiting seniors homes hosting a sports game day and barbecue for newcomers to PEI and Canada participating in the Alzheimers Society of PEIs Christmas house tours the Tim Hortons Food Drive and the IWK Hospital RadiothonThe players will sell pink winter hats on campus and at the mens and womens soccer games this Sunday to raise money for the Run for the Cure And on October 24 they will volunteer at West Kent Schools fall fairRedmond says that the soccer programs community sports development work is part of its Green Print program launched in 2007 Through this program UPEIs soccer teams promote the...