Kerri Hardill - S3

3 mar 2022 · 25 min. 33 sec.
Kerri Hardill - S3
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Kerri Hardill received her first lacrosse stick for Christmas when she was 4 years old. She remembers attending the lacrosse school for girls in Peterborough at age 11 and at...

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Kerri Hardill received her first lacrosse stick for Christmas when she was 4 years old.

She remembers attending the lacrosse school for girls in Peterborough at age 11 and at 12 years old (1974) the first girls teams started in Lakefield and Peterborough.

In 1975 -76 she played on the bantam boys team in Bridgenorth as well as on the girls team. When she was in Grade 11-13 she was invited to play on the high school boys field team by Coach Don Barrie.

In 1978 she received an invitation to try out for a women’s field team started by Paul and Stan Gilkinson. This was the start of women’s field lacrosse in Ontario and Canada.

This lead to a tryout in 1981 for Team Canada which would participate in the inaugural women’s World Cup in Nottingham England in 1982.

Kerri was a member of the Ontario Women’s Field Lacrosse Team from 1983-1994. Her
team won many Bronze and Silver medals at the National Championships, finally getting Gold in 1994.

Hardill was involved with Team Canada from 1982 – 1994 winning Bronze at the World
Cup 1982 and 4 th Place at World Cup. 1993. As a coach she started the inaugural girls field
program in Peterborough under the PMLA umbrella and the girls field program at the high
school she taught at.

She coached Club and High School for 20 years.She also served as an
Organizing Committee Member for the three world championships held in Canada (2007, 2013, 2019).

For all of these achievements Hardill received these accolades – inducted into the
Peterborough and District Sports Hall of Fame as a Player in 2000, the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a player in 2001, and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as the first female player to be inducted in 2007.
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