CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — When Shannon Gillis Atkins settles in at MacAdam Field to watch the UPEI women’s rugby team, the Stratford, P.E.I., resident ...
The UPEI Panthers recognized the contributions of Shannon Gillis Atkins to the women’s rugby program before an Atlantic University Sport regular-season game against the St. Francis Xavier X-Women at MacAdam Field on Sept. 23. Gillis Atkins, centre, displays a banner marking the years she competed at the varsity level for the Panthers. UPEI head coach James Voye, left, and Jane Vessey, director of athletics, congratulate Gillis Atkins.
“Over the years, I’ve had so many great people play with me, coach with me,” said Gillis Atkins, whose involvement with the UPEI women’s rugby team goes all the way back to Day 1 – even before any player stepped on the field. “It meant a lot to her to have a female rugby program at that level, and she was really driven to keep it going,” said Panthers head coach James Voye. “So driven, she was in contact with me even during the years she stepped away from the program and was living out west.”
She remembers the Panthers being a contending team in the thick of things early in the program’s varsity history.
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