Jenna McParland (born May 12, 1992) is a Canadian

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forward, currently playing for the

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in the

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(NWHL).

Playing career

Across 141

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games with the

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, McParland scored 116 points. She was drafted 6th overall by the

Brampton Thunder The Markham Thunder was a professional women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). From 1998 through 2017, the franchise was known as the Brampton Thunder and Brampton Canadettes-Thunder before relocating from Brampton, O ...

in the

2015 CWHL Draft The 2015 CWHL Draft was held on August 23, 2015. With the first pick overall, the Brampton Thunder selected Sarah Edney from the Harvard Crimson. Selecting second overall, the Toronto Furies picked Emily Fulton from the Cornell Big Red. Marie-Ph ...

. After graduating, she signed with Brampton in the

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(CWHL). She would play the next four seasons with the club, until the collapse of the CWHL in 2019. In 2018, she won the

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with the team. In May 2019, she joined the

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(PWHPA), and would spend the 2019–20 season with the organisation. In 2020, she signed with the expansion Toronto Six of the NWHL, but chose to opt-out of the 2020-21 COVID-19 bubble season.

International play

She played for

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at the

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, scoring 7 points in 5 games as the country won gold.

Personal life

She attended Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School in

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. Her brother, Nick McParland, played three years in the

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Career statistics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McParland, Jenna 1992 births Living people People from Thunder Bay District Ice hockey people from Ontario Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Markham Thunder players Professional Women's Hockey Players Association players Toronto Six players