Letter to Tanna Payne
from Dave Fraser
Dear Tanna,
Tanna joined our team as Fitness Coordinator in September 2007. We asked her to work with our group of 15 - 17 year old female hockey players, many of whom thought they were in great shape. We are a Midget AAA Female Hockey program. After working with Tanna I think they would all say that they had something to learn about conditioning.
Tanna's enthusiasm was immediately apparent and the team responded positively to her approach. She was able to establish an excellent rapport with the members of the team, both on an individual and group basis. Tanna established a weekly regime for the girls and over the course of the year we saw tremendous gains in their strength and conditioning. A real testimony to the results of this program was near the end of the year we experienced some injuries (concussion, broken clavical) and had to play an important playoff game with only 10 skaters. The team came out of the gate strong and we were a bit concerned that they may tire by the end of the game. However, as the game progressed the girls continued to perform at a very high level and in fact showed no evidence of fatigue. Their ability to play such an important game and maintain such a high level of performance was in no small part due to the excellent work Tanna had done with them over the course of the year.
Tanna is a gifted trainer. She is dedicated, enthusiastic, caring, and motivated. Her upbeat, positive approach to health and fitness was an extremely important component of our very successful season as District Champions.
Thanks Tanna,
Dave Fraser
Assistant Coach, Mid-Island Extreme
