Calgary sports therapy: Meet Our Team

  After graduating from UBC, Andrea moved to Calgary to study Athletic Therapy at Mt Royal University.  During Andrea’s time at Mt Royal, she worked with many college and varsity athletes, which consisted of soccer, hockey, basketball, wrestling, football, volleyball and gymnastics to name a few. Andrea’s role with the sports teams was to ensure the athletes safety on and off the field, whether it was preventing and educating them on their injury, assessing injuries, prophylactic taping for play, rehabbing injuries, manual therapy techniques, or ensuring they were capable of returning to their sport quickly. She is passionate in what she does and it shows.

Presently, you will find Andrea working a variety of events: she works the National Judo training camp each year, she is the head athletic therapist for Hayley Wickenheisers “Wickfest” girls hockey camp, Andrea is the head Athletic Therapist for the Ringette University Cup, and she has worked a multitude of extreme races- anything from single track 6 mountain bike race, to a 5 day adventure run “ Trans Rockies Run” in Revelstoke. She recently returned from Africa where she taught first aid to the rangers of “Virunga National Park” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and worked in Rwanda with the National Rwandan Cycling Team. She has worked with athletes from all ages and all levels of sport: National Level athletes from Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, USA, Canada, South Africa, Russia, and Czech Republic, a National Short track speed skater from Quebec, retired football and hockey players, as well as 8 -12 year old dancers. She is very diverse in who she works with and her skills.

Andrea is a huge proponent of giving back to the community, in one instance she organized an athletic therapy tent for the victims of the flood that hit Calgary, she has volunteered her time on the Ride to Conquer cancer, she helps out Midget Football, and Masters Rugby. Recently she brought the massage therapist from the National Rwandan Cycling Team to Canada for 6 weeks to mentor with her in first aid and manual therapy skills. Each Christmas, Andrea and her business are involved with the toy drive for the marginalized women at the Calgary's women's shelter. She feels that giving back to people and communities are very satisfying and rewarding. Andrea’s philosophy is “ you don’t go poor by giving”