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Born |
Waterloo, Ontario | 2 April 1999||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2021 | Canada U–21 | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
2017– | Canada | 29 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jordyn Faiczak (born 2 April 1999)[1] is a field hockey player from Canada.[2]
Jordyn Faiczak was born and raised in Waterloo, Ontario.[3][2][4] She has a younger sister named Taylor.[5] Faiczak attended the Bluevale Collegiate Institute.[6] She later attended the University of British Columbia.[7]
Faiczak began playing field hockey in grade seven[8] and joined her first provincial field hockey team when she was in grade nine.[9] As a forward for her high school team, the Bluevale Knights, Faiczak was an all-Ontario (OFSAA) champion.[6] It was the school's first OFSAA gold-medal.[10] The team, with Faiczak, had placed second and third in the two years prior.[5] She also played for the Guelph Gators[5] and was on Ontario's under-18 team when they won the U18 field hockey championship in 2017.[11]
During university, Faiczak played for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.[7] In 2017, Faiczak and the Thunderbirds won a USports championship.[8]
Faiczak made her debut for the Canadian U–21 team in 2016, at the Pan American Junior Championship in Tacarigua.[12][5] The team placed fourth overall.[6]
She represented the team three years later in a four–nations tournament in Dublin.[12]
In 2021, she was a member of the gold medal-winning team at her second Pan American Junior Championship.[13][14] She was unable to compete with the team in South Africa at the Junior World Cup later that year due to age restrictions.[6]
Jordyn Faiczak debuted for the national team in 2017 during a test series against Chile and India.[2]
She won her first medal in 2022, taking home bronze at the Pan American Cup in Santiago.[15][16] Later that year, she was named starting midfielder for the squad for the FIH World Cup in Amsterdam and Terrassa.[17] Faiczak will also represent Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.[8]