2. Background
• I spent the majority of
my childhood playing
sports.
• Hockey in the winter,
track in the spring,
baseball in the summer,
golf when the weather
was decent enough.
3. Getting Started
• Neither of my parents • I started in house leagues,
ever played hockey, but eventually went to
however while attending travel hockey in mites
college at LSSU, they fell (age 7-9) in a town 50
in love with the game miles away.
• When I was 3 they put me • After working my way up,
into skates and I never we eventually decided to
looked back move 50 miles away for
high school (Sault Ste
Marie). Mainly for hockey.
4. Developing Fully
• I made the high school team • After my freshman year I
as a freshman, along with my began to grow, getting
best friend. stronger, bigger, and faster.
• Neither of us played much at • My sophomore year was
the start of the year, but highlighted by scoring the
eventually we would both game winning goal in the 6th
become huge portions for overtime of a playoff game,
playoff run. and assisting on another OT
• My first goal of the season game winner from my late
came in the Regional Finals, as teammate who passed last
the game winner. Christmas.
• We then went to the final • My junior year started with
four, losing to GRCC. receiving interest from a
couple of D1 schools, and
added expectation as a
captain.
5. The Struggles
• After rehabbing a blown out knee
in the summer, me and my fellow
seniors embarked on a season
where anything but a
championship was a failure in the
eyes of our peers.
• During the season we lost a
member of our schoolmates in a
4 month span, which saw one of
my best friends die in a car crash.
• We realized that night at hockey
just how important hockey was to
us, and gave us motivation to not
forget her, but to try and win a
championship in her honor. We
fell short.
6. How Hockey Brought Me Along
• The ability to connect
hockey to life.
• Knowing there was
nothing more important
than the family you
develop with your
teammates.
• The ability to conquer
any personal barriers and
never giving up no matter
what the expectations or
pressures are.
7. Is Hockey My Career?
• Odds are most likely • If physics is my path, then I
not, but with an open camp will be able to relate
tryout to the Detroit Red through sports with
Wings upcoming this employers and patients
summer, it is possible that I within the Radiation
could be continuing my Oncology setting I will be
education later in life. working in.
• If the tryout falls through I • Make sure to check the
will take the lessons learned internet and see if I am
throughout the years of playing the NHL or AHL, and
physical and mental come see me play. Find me
discipline of the sport, and and I will get you free
apply them in graduate tickets, even though you
school for medical physics. only know me through this.
8. Element
• My element truly is my
passion, and if I am
fortunate enough to
play it for a living than
that will be how it is.
• If not, then I know no
matter how stressful life
gets, I can always find a
frozen pond in Canada
and get back to the
basics of who I am.
