A Brock University graduate has been named among the most influential women in Canadian sports.<\/p>\n
Meghan Chayka (BBA \u201912), who graduated with a finance degree from the Goodman School of Business, made the list released on International Women\u2019s Day Monday, March 8 by the Toronto Star.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Chayka, from Jordan Station, is a data scientist who launched Stathletes in the late 2000s with co-founder Neil Lane. The hockey analytics company is based in St. Catharines and employs more than 50 people. With the rise of data-based decision-making in professional sports, Stathletes has grown dramatically and now works with many National Hockey League teams and other leagues around the world.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m honoured to be on the list and humbled to be with such an inspiring group of women,\u201d Chayka said. \u201cBrock has always had a great focus on sports and helped me realize my potential in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n The Star<\/em> wrote that Chayka is a \u201chuge supporter of women in technology, women in hockey \u2014 and hockey in general \u2014 providing networking opportunities that draw some of the game\u2019s biggest names.\u201d<\/p>\n Chayka was also featured last week on an episode of The Big Picture<\/em> on CTV Sportsnet talking about how she\u2019s finding success in two male-dominated industries: hockey and tech.<\/p>\n Read the full article in the Toronto Star<\/em> here<\/a> and see Chayka\u2019s interview with Sportsnet host Christine Simpson here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meghan Chayka (BBA \u201912), who graduated with a finance degree from the Goodman School of Business, made the list of Canada’s most influential women in sports Monday, March 8 by the Toronto Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,39,1,4],"tags":[214,594,2766,8685,2114,9493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70945,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70940\/revisions\/70945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}