Meghan Chayka

Meghan Chayka is a Canadian data scientist and ice hockey analyst, most known as co-founder of analytics company Stathletes.[1][2]

Meghan Chayka
OccupationHockey analyst
OrganizationStathletes

Career

She founded the analytics company Sathletes in the late 2000s with Neil Lane, after filming her brother's matches in the Ontario Junior Hockey League in order to help him improve his performance.[3] The company grew quickly, with the Vancouver Canucks becoming the first NHL team to hire their services in 2012.[4]

The company provided analysis for CBC at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[5]

She was named Ontario Chamber of Commerce's Top Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018.[6] In 2019, she was granted the George Brown College's The 5 to Watch Sports Business Executive award and was named to The Hockey News' Top 100 People of Power and Influence.[7]

She presented a speech at the 2020 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.[8]

She has supported the growth of women's hockey, providing analysis for women's university hockey and announcing a landmark partnership with the National Women's Hockey League for the 2020–21 NWHL season.[9]

Personal life

She has a degree in finance and economics, and is a Data Scientist in Residence at the University of Toronto.[10] Her brother, John Chayka, served as general manager for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League from 2016 to 2020.[11]

References
  1. "Meghan Chayka reconnecting hockey's analytics community amid pandemic – Sportsnet.ca". www.sportsnet.ca.
  2. Larkin, Matt. "Stathletes co-founder Meghan Chayka is on the road to a higher calling". The Hockey News on Sports Illustrated.
  3. "Meghan Chayka: l'influence au féminin". La Presse. March 12, 2019.
  4. Samuels-Thomas, Jordan. "Meghan Chayka's work in analytics is breaking ground in hockey in more ways than one". The Athletic.
  5. "IIHF – Chayka: "You love the game"". IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation.
  6. Government of Canada, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. "She Shoots, She Scores". www.feddevontario.gc.ca.
  7. News, The Hockey. "The Hockey News' People Of Power And Influence: No. 95 – Meghan Chayka". The Hockey News on Sports Illustrated.
  8. "Rushing to Analytics: Hockey's Ability to Predict and Project Talent | MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference". www.sloansportsconference.com.
  9. "'Unless You Show up on a Box Score in Women's Hockey, it's Lost': Meghan Chayka on why Stathletes partnered with the NWL – Maplehockey".
  10. "About Us | TD Management Data and Analytics Lab | Rotman School of Management – Rotman School of Management". www.rotman.utoronto.ca.
  11. "Big Read: Coyotes GM John Chayka has the drive to bring winning hockey to the desert – Sportsnet.ca". www.sportsnet.ca.
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