VANCOUVER, BC – PWHL Vancouver as we speak introduced that ahead Jenn Gardiner has agreed to phrases on a one-year Skilled Girls’s Hockey League Customary Participant Settlement to hitch the staff for the 2025-26 season. Gardiner, who hails from Surrey, BC, and spent her rookie season with the Montréal Victoire, is the fifth participant to signal with PWHL Vancouver forward of the staff’s inaugural marketing campaign.
“I feel I converse for all of Vancouver and all the province of British Columbia after I say it’s extraordinarily particular so as to add a neighborhood participant like Jenn to our inaugural season lineup,” stated Cara Gardner Morey, PWHL Vancouver Normal Supervisor. “She is a participant with expertise constructing chemistry alongside a few of the high gamers within the league and has been on an upward trajectory all through her profession. I can’t wait to see her thrive in entrance of her hometown followers.”
Gardiner was chosen eleventh total by Montréal within the 2024 PWHL Draft and is a finalist for the 2025 PWHL Rookie of the 12 months award. This season, she completed second amongst all rookies and third on the Victoire with 18 factors (5G, 13A) in 30 video games. A spotlight of her season was returning to Vancouver and enjoying an expert recreation in entrance of a hometown crowd for the primary time on the sold-out Rogers Enviornment for the PWHL Takeover Tour on Jan. 8. The 23-year-old joined the PWHL following a adorned five-year profession at The Ohio State College the place she gained two Nationwide Championships with the Buckeyes. Gardiner performed in her first IIHF Girls’s World Championship in April and completed second in event scoring with 10 factors, serving to Canada earn silver.
“Merely put, it’s a dream come true,” stated Gardiner. “Ever since I used to be a bit lady on the Surrey Falcons and Better Vancouver Comets, I’ve wished to play skilled hockey for my hometown staff. I’m so excited to assist construct a legacy that makes different women in British Columbia dream large, and I’m thrilled to play in entrance of my family and friends once more. The Takeover Tour proved that Vancouver’s followers are passionate and loud, however I already knew that. I can’t wait to make them proud. Glad to say I’m coming dwelling!”
Gardiner joins an all-Canadian lineup of preliminary PWHL Vancouver signees alongside fellow ahead Sarah Nurse, defenders Sophie Jaques and Claire Thompson, and goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer.
Vancouver has signed their most of 5 gamers permitted through the league’s Unique Signing Window for enlargement groups. The 2025 Growth Draft offered by Higher Deck will happen on Monday, June 9 at 5:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 p.m. ET, stay at thepwhl.com and on the league’s YouTube channel, the place Vancouver will choose seven gamers to convey their roster complete to 12.
Followers can place a time-stamped deposit for PWHL Vancouver to safe precedence entry to season tickets for his or her historic inaugural season, as soon as ticket packages are launched. For the most recent information and updates, followers can subscribe to the Vancouver publication.
