Andria Hunter Profile



Andria Hunter is from Peterborough, Ontario. She played on the Canadian women's national hockey team at the 1992 and 1994 World Championships, claiming the gold medal each time. She played hockey for the University of New Hampshire on a women's hockey scholarship (winning 2 ECAC championships), and for the University of Toronto (winning 4 OWIAA/OUA championships). She spent one season in Switzerland where she played for DHC Langenthal of the Swiss Women's National A league.

She has contributed substantially to the hockey teams on which she has played. She placed third overall in scoring for the 1992 Women's World Championship, scoring 3 points in the gold medal game. She is second on the all-time scoring list for the OWIAA (Ontario university hockey) and has the second highest total points in a single season (53 points in 15 games). During her first year at the University of New Hampshire, she was awarded rookie of the year; she led the University of New Hampshire in scoring for 3 of her 4 years, and was team captain during her final year. Andria led the league in scoring in Switzerland with 59 goals and 28 assists in 20 games.

Although retiring from the national team because of a hip/groin injury, Andria still remains involved in women's hockey. She is currently playing at the highest level in Canada, in the Senior AAA National Women's Hockey League (NWHL). She was named to the NWHL 1st all-star team during the 1998-99 seasson, and was selected as the league's most sportsmanlike player. She is very involved in women's in-line hockey; after being the top scorer at all 5 tournaments in which she competed in 1997, she was selected as the 1997 In-line Hockey News Female Amateur Player of the Year.

She has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Her thesis title for her Masters degree was Aspects of Workload Characterization for Distributed System Models. She currently teaches Computer Science at the University of Toronto. She also has her own company, ALH Computer Solutions, that specializes in the areas of Internet site consulting and Java programming tutoring.

Andria has a unique combination of skills required to maintain the women's hockey web pages: