her honor and is given to the silver medal-winning team at the annual Canadian Senior Women's National Championships. Rider was the first female recipient of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association's Award of Merit. Awarded the Ontario Hockey Association's Minor Hockey Service Award. Rider became the first woman to claim that honour. Received the Ontario Hockey Association's (OHA) Gold Stick Award and became the first woman in forty five years to have the honor bestowed upon her.) Awarded the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Citizenship's Contribution to Sport Award Inducted into the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame (2001) Personal During May 2018, Rider was part of a group of four female athletes, including Cassie Campbell, Jen Kish and Kerrin Lee-Gartner to publicly pledge their brain to a Canadian research centre. The posthumous donation shall be made to Toronto Western Hospital’s Canadian Concussion Centre to further research on the effect of trauma on women’s brains. References Canadian women's ice hockey players IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Living people Members of the Order of Canada Members of the Order of Ontario Order of Hockey in Canada recipients Sportspeople from Mississauga Year of birth missing (living people) Women ice hockey executives Women in Ontario