Kendra Woodland

Kendra Woodland arrived at the University of New Brunswick in 2018 from Kamloops, British Columbia, and over five seasons built one of the more complete résumés in Canadian university hockey. By the time she left Fredericton in 2024, she had posted a career record of 53 wins, 35 losses, and no ties, with a 1.68 goals-against average, a .941 save percentage, and a .602 winning percentage — numbers accumulated across three Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championship runs with the Reds.

The individual honours accumulated steadily alongside the team success. Woodland earned AUS Rookie of the Year recognition and a spot on both the AUS and national all-rookie teams in 2018-19, the same year she received her first AUS First All-Star Team selection. A Second All-Star Team nod followed in 2019-20, and First All-Star recognition returned in both 2021-22 and 2022-23. In her final season, 2023-24, she was named both AUS Most Valuable Player and the national U Sports Player of the Year — the Broderick Trophy. She had also been runner-up for the U Sports Female Athlete of the Year award in 2023.

Her international record includes a bronze medal with Team Canada at the 2018 IIHF Women's Under-18 Championship and, five years later, a gold medal at the 2023 Summer Universiade, where she went 4-0 with a 0.25 goals-against average, a .984 save percentage, and three shutouts.

Away from the rink, Woodland has served as a Hockey Gives Blood player ambassador since 2021, helping organize blood drives twice yearly during her time at UNB and participating in Canadian Blood Services awareness events. She was runner-up for the Dayna Brons Award in 2022 — a recognition she held as the only female ever included in that award category before it transitioned into a CHL-specific honour. As of the time of her PWHL signing she had personally donated blood ten times.

Despite that decorated university career, Woodland did not land with a PWHL team when she graduated. She spent the following year maintaining her game outside of a regular team environment before making Ottawa's roster out of training camp for the 2025-26 season. She wears number 70 for the Ottawa Charge and, in doing so, became the first goaltender out of U Sports to make a PWHL roster.

InGoal Magazine has covered Kendra Woodland in one podcast appearance. On InGoal Radio episode 334 ^[1], host Kevin Woodley introduced her story — the UNB career, the year of independent preparation, and the path to Ottawa's roster — and described conversations with Charge goaltending coach Pierre Groulx about what he sees in her game. Woodley framed it as a story of perseverance and called it a "get to know you" interview full of practical takeaways for goalies navigating similar situations outside of a team structure. The episode is available at the link above.