Tara Rose Hedican

Tara Hedican was a member of the Canadian National Wrestling Team from 1998 to 2008. In 2001, she became the first Canadian woman to win a World Junior Wrestling Championship. Hedican was the recipient of the Tom Longboat Award in 2001. She was a dual-sport athlete at the University of Guelph where she competed in wrestling (2001–2004) and was inducted into the Guelph Gryphons Hall of Fame in 2016.

Education

Within her second year of university was not only an athlete but a coach and referee, while being a member of the Eabametoong First Nations in Ontario. Hedican completed her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Guelph in 2006. Her past and current courses taught include: Traditional Knowledge and Ethics, Contemporary Aboriginal Society, Sociology of Community: The Aboriginal Context, and People and the Forest.