Jyoti Mann | Malton, ON
CURRENT PROGRAM: Kinesiology Co-op, class of 2018
CAREER GOAL: Physiotherapy
AWARD: Andrea Fraser Memorial Award
By high school, Jyoti Mann had an athletic résumé packed with almost everything: “You name it, I played it,” she jokes today.
But Jyoti’s dreams of an athletic career came to a halt when she was just 15. She went down in the last minutes of a rugby tournament, hearing a sickening pop in her right knee. “It was the first time I’d ever been carried off the field,” she admits.
Jyoti’s injury sent her to a physiotherapist, where she knew instantly this was the career she wanted. “I was lying on the table watching the physio examine my knee, and thinking ‘wow, these people know how to manipulate the human body in a way to figure out what’s wrong!’”
Now heading into her fourth year, Jyoti is proud and grateful to hold the Andrea Fraser Memorial Award. “Andrea seemed like such a force of nature. It’s a genuine honour to hold this award in her name. Thank you so much.”
Jyoti also holds the Ross and Doris Dixon Award, made possible by the Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation.
