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Shannon Larkins played an outstanding five-year career with the Bobcats women’s basketball team, in which she faced adversity due to injury, and one of the most successful times in the program’s history.
Larkins came to Brandon out of Winnipeg’s Kelvin High School, where she worked her way from a high school prospect, to a model university athlete. She was a key member of the last Bobcats women’s basketball team to crack the national top 10 rankings.
She was a starting guard, two-time Academic All-Canadian, and well respected teammate before a devastating knee-injury forced her to lose time on the floor. What seemed like an untimely and unfortunate incident ultimately led to her career path.
The knee injury changed her academic pursuit from Zoology to Physiotherapy and Athletic Therapy.
Larkins worked the Pan Am games in Winnipeg in 1999 as an Athletic Therapist and has been employed in the field ever since, becoming an advocate for acupuncture treatment of athletic-related injuries.
Larkins continues to play recreational basketball as part of Winnipeg Senior Women’s Basketball League with other BU alumni.
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