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CARLEY JEWELL Carley is a During her University former tenure Griffins university student-athlete. with the MacEwan (Edmonton, AB) women’s hockey team, she was part of three consecutive ACAC championships (2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020). In the 2017/2018 season, she was awarded the Alberta College Athletics Conference Player of the Year award and the MacEwan University Most Outstanding Player award. Additionally, she was a two-time Academic All-Canadian (2017/2018 and 2019/2020) and was named to the ACAC women’s hockey First and Second All-Star teams (2017/2018 and 2019/2020).

As a university hockey player, Carley experienced several sport-related concussions and their associated recovery protocols. From this experience, she took an interest in athletes’ psychosocial recovery from sport-related concussions. She is now a graduate student at the University of Lethbridge, where she is completing her Master’s of Science in Kinesiology. Her thesis focuses on athletes’ perceptions of social support during the sport-related concussion Return to Sport (RTS) protocol.

She is still contributing to her sport to this day. You can find her refereeing games from u15-u22 levels of hockey. She’s a level 3 ice hockey referee who has officiated as high as U17AAA boys and USport female hockey.

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