A Sunday Read: How the camera eye of UFV’s Sarah Parker helped Canadian women’s soccer capture a golden moment in time!
ABBOTSFORD — For about as long as she can remember, Sarah Parker has felt a calling to capture moments in time.
Whether as still life or moving pictures, she very quickly understood the effect images could have on the imagination, and how later, as an elite-level U Sports soccer player, the inspirational power they carried.
“I love how people can feel when they can re-live moments through pictures, as if they are still happening” explains Parker, 22, a media arts major and fourth-year striker with the Fraser Valley Cascades. “I can remember back in high school, I was that person who was always being asked ‘Why are you taking so many pictures, so many videos.’”
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From striker to shooter: Surrey’s Sarah Parker impresses behind the lens with Abbotsford Canucks
Sarah Parker’s ACL tear put an abrupt pause to her soccer career, but the debilitating injury also opened the door to sports media opportunities on a grand scale.
Since she damaged her knee, the fifth-year University of the Fraser Valley Bachelor of Media Arts student has worked with both Canada Soccer and the Abbotsford Canucks and her future appears to be bright – no matter if she continues behind the lens or returns to the pitch.
But being this active off the field wasn’t supposed to happen.
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With professional sports career on hold, a former UFV soccer player finds purpose through practicums
As the hometown Abbotsford Canucks battled the San Diego Gulls tooth and nail below on the ice recently, a familiar face within UFV sports circles roamed the arena with a camera in her hand and an employee credential dangling off her neck.
Throughout the game, Sarah Parker deftly captured every slap shot and fan interaction, maneuvering back and forth between various shooting locations. In between periods, she vanished to the media room to edit pictures and short videos which were then posted on the team’s social media platforms. Her best photograph came during the overtime shootout: a spectacular, bird’s-eye shot of Canucks centre Tristen Nielsen attempting to score around the Gulls’ goalie.
