Cindy Eadie is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

 third baseman

Third baseman

A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run...

 and hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 goaltender

Goaltender

In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...

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Eadie began softball at age 5, and has attended Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....

, where she played three seasons as their starting goalie and won numerous personal accolades, as well as leading her team to a national championship in 2005.

Eadie was a part of the Canadian Softball team who finished 5th at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

, and is a member of the Brampton Thunder

Brampton Thunder

The Brampton Canadettes-Thunder is an ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Canadettes-Thunder play its home games at the Powerade Centre in Brampton, Ontario.-Team history:...

hockey team of the National Women's Hockey League. Eadie participated at the 2008 Esso Nationals and won the silver medal. She is also the Assistant Women's hockey coach at Wilfrid Laurier.

Awards and honors

• Led the CIS in shutouts (10) (2004–05)
• Led the CIS in goals against average (0.73) (2004–05)
• Led the CIS in and save percentage (.962) (2004–05)
• Nominee, BLG Award (2004–05)
• 2004/2005 Women's Hockey CIS Championship Tournament All-Star
• 2004/2005 Women's Hockey OUA League MVP
• 2004/2005 Women's Hockey CIS First Team All-Canadian
• 2004/2005 Women's Hockey OUA First Team All-Star
• 2004/2005 Women's Hockey OUA Goalie of the Year
• 2002/2003 Women's Hockey OUA Second Team All-Star
• 2001/2002 Women's Hockey CIS Rookie of the Year
• 2001/2002 Women's Hockey OUA League MVP
• 2001/2002 Women's Hockey OUA Goalie of the Year
• 2001/2002 Women's Hockey OUA First Team All-Star
• 2001/2002 Women's Hockey CIS First Team All-Canadian
• 2001/2002 Tissot Rookie of the Year (awarded to the CIS female rookie of the year)
• 2001/2002 Women's Hockey OUA Rookie of the Year

Wilfrid Laurier Awards

• 2004/2005 President's Award
• 2004/2005 Lisa Backman Award (awarded to the Wilfrid Laurier Most Valuable Player in women's ice hockey)

Team Most Valuable Player

• 2001/2002 President's Award
• 2001/2002 Team Rookie of the Year (the award would be renamed the Cindy Eadie Award)