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Seaforth's Assassins player wins gold with Ottawa
juvenile team in Canadian Broomball Nationals
Susan H u n d e r t m a r
GMEMEMID
While her juvenile broomball
team, the Seaforth Assassins were
only one goal away from qualifying
for the Canadian Broomball
Nationals this year, Jenna Rinn
earned a gold medal playing for the
Seaway Valley Devils, of Ottawa.
Rinn, who plays centre for the
Assassins and left wing for the
women's team Parr Line (which also
won gold at the adult broomball
provincials this spring), played both
defence and forward for the Devils,
scoring two goals and an assist dur-
ing nationals in Odessa and
Balgonie, Saskatchewan in March.
Rinn lives near Blyth and is a stu-
dent at Central Huron Secondary
School.
"I went to the nationals last year
with the Windsor Flames and they
(the SeawayDevils) saw me play
there," says Rinn of her invitation
to join the Devils during this year's
nationals.
She says Seaway is a formidable
team that has never lost the provin-
cials and she learned a lot playing
with them.
"They are really together as a
team. They have meetings every
night and strict curfews which was
good," she says.
Rinn adds Seaway had some
"crazy rituals" that seemed to work,
such as everyone sitting in the same
place in the dressing room before
each game, reciting prayers and
saying the same cheers before each
game and placing a devil doll on the
bench.
"It was cool. They're a supersti-
tious team but it works for them. I
had to be careful not to jinx it for
them. They live for broomball," she
says.
She and the other five "rookies"
on the team were taken through an
initiation during the nationals
where they were dressed in giant
diapers, given a soother and had to
collect various items on a scavenger
hunt through
downtown
Regina, Sask.
"Everyone
stared and
laughed. They
knew there was
a broomball
tournament in
town," says
Rinn.
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Because
Jenna Rinn
most
of
the
Seaway
speaks French, Rinn says it was
tricky during exciting moments of
the games to know what was going
on.
"The girls would get all excited
and start saying the play in French
and I had to put my hand up and
say, `Je ne sais pas Francais,'" she
says.
But, she learned a bit of French,
including a few swear words, during
the tournament.
Seaway didn't lose one game dur-
ing the nationals tournament and
had its hardest game against anoth-
er Ottawa team.
At one point, Rinn came up
against another Seaforth Assassins
player, Colleen O'Reilly, who was
playing at the nationals for the
Eastern Flames, the team which
defeated the Assassins at the quali-
fying tournament.
"We took the Flames into over-
time but we still won. They came in
sixth, or silver on the B side," says
Rinn.
She says O'Reilly played really
well during the nationals, receiving
an MVP award for her team and
being named to the second team of
all-stars.
While Rinn has been invited to
come back and play for the Seaway
Devils again next year in the
nationals, she's hoping her team,
the Assassins will qualify them-
selves.
"I would love to go with the
Assassins. Having your team there
would be even better," she says.
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