Hometown hockey hero Alli Borrow, a forward for the University of Calgary Dinos, is a Canada West First Team All Star.
Receiving this award fulfills a dream that she’s had since she began playing in the league at the University of Lethbridge five years ago. All-star status congratulates her after Canada West’s numbers found she was one of the top three forwards in the league for 2022 and 2023.
Borrow started playing minor hockey at a young age in Clearwater, after entering the rink at five years old. In grade 10, she went to a hockey academy in Kelowna, before training at another hockey academy in Penticton in grades 11 and 12.
“I’m so proud to be from Clearwater,” Borrow told the Clearwater Times.
“Whenever I did interviews here in Calgary I was so proud to say I’m from Clearwater, because there have not been very many girls that have come out of the town and done what I’ve done.”
This year will be the 23-year-old’s second and last year playing hockey for the University of Calgary Dinos, because she will soon graduate from the university with a bachelors in sociology.
Borrow first attended the University of Lethbridge on a hockey scholarship before the transferred to the University of Calgary. The past few years were full of fun experiences she would gladly repeat.
However, the past five years were also a busy chapter of Borrow’s life. Now, she wants to keep her options for how to spend the months after graduation open.
She is considering staying in Calgary for the summer then returning to Clearwater to help her father, Doug Borrow, with his business, Borrow Enterprises LTD.
“I was actually offered to go play in Europe, to go pro and make money playing that. But I think I’m going to take the year off this year and maybe just start making some money first,” she said.
After this year, Borrow will reconsider any opportunities to play in Europe. Hockey has been Borrow’s whole life, so she plans to stay connected through the sport one way or another, she added.
Borrow is also interested in coaching younger women, perhaps the girls in Clearwater. Borrow’s grade 11 sister, Korie McGill, plays hockey in Kamloops and hopes to follow in her sister’s footsteps.
“She hopefully wants to be a Dino one day, is what she told me,” Borrow added.
Family support has been a huge part of her success, Borrow said. Borrow’s father stands out as her number one supporter throughout high school and university.
“I know growing up girls’ hockey was not a big thing and he always pushed me to be my best. He basically just helped me, my whole way through.”
She is grateful that every member of her family cheered her on. Her grandparents never miss a game, because they always watch her play online, she added.
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