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Wickenheiser part of UNBC breakfast

When the community is invited to have breakfast with a four-time Olympic champion, the event is bound to sell out. It's exactly what happened with the inaugural UNBC Timberwolves Legacy Breakfast, slated for tomorrow morning at 7 a.m.
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When the community is invited to have breakfast with a four-time Olympic champion, the event is bound to sell out.

It's exactly what happened with the inaugural UNBC Timberwolves Legacy Breakfast, slated for tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. at the Ramada Hotel.

The 400 guests who will gather at the downtown hotel will have a chance to see and listen to Canadian hockey icon Hayley Wickenheiser, who holds four Olympic gold medals and silver she has won as part of the national women's hockey team.

UNBC director of Athletics Loralyn Murdoch said the legacy breakfast is a major fundraiser for athletic scholarships for the 80 student-athletes at UNBC who compete in soccer and basketball at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport level. It's an initiative that's being done across the board at all CIS schools.

"Previously for the last 10 years we had the Breakfast of Champions and that was a huge success," said Murdoch. "(Now), we're trying to get the university, the local community and the alumni involved. Being that we're a hockey community, Hayley agreed to help out. The business community has been very supportive of our sports programs."

The breakfast sold out on Friday when the last two available tables sold.

Wickenheiser was named MVP at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics and is a member of the International Olympic Committee's athletes' commission.

At the same time as her international success, she also earned a kinesiology degree from the University of Calgary and played for the Dinos women's hockey team.

The breakfast is slated for 7 a.m. Tuesday and the program follows at 7:30 a.m.