Trillium In The News
The Mississauga News
Olympic hockey heroes inspire hospital staffers
Oct 2, 2002
The glory of Canada's Olympic hockey victory (the female
version) still lives.
Seven months after capturing gold in
Salt Lake City, Team Canada head coach Daniele Sauvageau
and captain Cassie Campbell
came to Mississauga recently to relive for a large crowd
the thrill and emotion of their dramatic victory over the
U.S.
The occasion was the community segment of Trillium Health
Centre's "Back To School" conference, an educational
event they hold each fall for the staff.
In the main session,
topics included discussion of current and future health
care, the use of robotic surgery and technology
in medicine, and motivating and creating teams to get the
job done.
"We have to see beyond the structure and the management
expertise and look into the hearts and minds of the people
who serve
here so that we can help release the leadership capacity
that I believe dwells in each person," said Trillium
president and CEO Ken White.
Sharing the spotlight with the
two hockey heroes was another Olympian, world champion
pairs figure skater Barbara Underhill.
Underhill was the luncheon speaker, recounting her personal
story of incredible triumphs and devastating losses, and
how she succeeded despite life's difficulties.
Hockey fan Mayor Hazel McCallion welcomed Sauvageau and
Campbell to the Mississauga Convention Centre.
Sauvageau said that
despite eight consecutive losses to the Americans leading
up to the Olympics -- and having been written
off by practically everyone -- her team never gave up hope.
"Responsibility, determination, and courage ... those
are the things that won it for us," she said.
"Very few people
exceed their dreams. It requires going out of your comfort
zone to take risks."
Campbell, who grew
up in Brampton, said the team members "didn't
stop believing in one another.
"We killed off eight penalties
in a row," said Campbell. "That
was not the way that we wanted to win the game ... but what
the heck."
Campbell was charitable to the referee.
"In all fairness
to her, she was put in the wrong situation and she did the
best she could," she said.
Despite no
longer being the head coach, having recently stepped down
from her position to focus on her police career, Sauvageau
is hoping Whistler, British Columbia gets the 2010 Winter
Olympics.
"We got a taste of being Olympic champions," she
said. "Now
we want to do it again."
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