Mandi Schwartz

Mandi Jocelyn Schwartz (February 3, 1988 – April 3, 2011) was a Canadian ice hockey player with the Yale Bulldogs. She was a three time Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Hockey All-Academic, and played 73 consecutive games with the team before being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2008. Prior to joining Yale University, Schwartz had played minor hockey for Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Saskatchewan. Her younger brother, Jaden currently plays for the Seattle Kraken in the National Hockey League.

After her diagnosis, bone marrow drives were at Yale and in Canada. These drives did not result in a match for Schwartz, they did result in six matches for other patients on the registry who were waiting for a transplant. As of February 1, 2018, 39 bone marrow matches have resulted from drives conducted at Yale University alone. Schwartz underwent a stem cell transplant from donated umbilical cord blood in September 2010. In December 2010, her cancer returned and she discontinued most forms of treatment. Schwartz died in Regina, Saskatchewan, at the age of 23. After her death, the ECAC hockey rookie of the year award was renamed in her honour, and an annual women's hockey tournament is named after her in Saskatchewan. Her family and Yale University have continued to support drives to identify bone marrow donors after her death.