Fran Rider

Athletics

Fran Rider

No person has worked harder to develop the game than Fran Rider, who established the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association in 1975 and is still the guiding force behind what was then the only organization in the world dedicated solely to women’s and girl’s hockey. Fran Rider became the first builder of women’s hockey to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation’s Hall of Fame when she received the honour earlier this year in Prague.