abstract:The Memorial Cup is a junior ice hockey club championship trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) champion. It is awarded following a four-team, round-robin tournament between a host team and the champions of the CHL's three member leagues: the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL).
The 23-year-old top seed, who won her first major tournament in Melbourne last year, burst into tears after she successfully defended her claim to the Daphne Akhurst MemorialCup, becoming one of only eight women, including Steffi Graf, Martina Hingis and Serena Williams, who have done so.
Thomas Pasqualini, a 50-year-old supply-chain official at Solo Cup, says an executive physical at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in 2006 spurred him to fix his unhealthy lifestyle.