A Tilbury grad is getting a big hand with her post-secondary education.
Chloe Ryder has been named one of five recipients of an $8,000 bursary from the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, chosen from the OMHA’s 2019-20 minor hockey season.
Ryder starred as captain on the school’s Skills Ontario team, placing ninth in Ontario in the architectural competition. She played in the Kent Minor Hockey Association for 13 years and also worked as a timekeeper at the arena.
Ryder was awarded Most Sportsmanlike on her team in multiple seasons and won the Association’s Dylan Chapleau Memorial Award for exhibiting the most sportsmanship in all local league programming.
But her skills aren’t limited to the ice. She also founded a crochet club which makes baby hats to be donated to the London Health Sciences Centre for shaken baby syndrome, and blankets for the local women’s shelter.
Ryder’s high school principal, Benjamin Lawton, said she was actively involved in the student council where she was the Co-Minister of Equity and Inclusion.
“Chloe stands out the most due to her involvement with things like school council and her willingness to try to start new clubs – things like the crochet club,” said Lawton.
Ryder is currently studying Architecture at Laurentian University in Sudbury.
