It's Not the Size of the Dog it is The Fight in the Dog!

Everyone thinks that in hockey you have to be big. I played boys' hockey for about nine years. All the boys were just hitting their grow spurts when mine was already done. I didn't get that far with my grow spurt. Being 4'9 and playing boys hockey got a little bit dangerous. Considering that these boys' hated being beat by a girl so they would do anything to take you out. So i switched to girls' hockey. Well let me tell you these girls' were not the smallest either. My whole entire life i was raised not be scared of anything; not to let my height keep me from doing something. I took that saying to heart and told myself that no one is going to tell me that i am to small.

There was a time that i was playing in Canada for a tournament. At the end of the game a National Scout came up to me and wanted to scout me. I was shocked there was bigger girls out there that he could have taken. He told me that my height would never get in the way of my hockey skills because of the way i play. To make up for my height i have to be very aggressive and what else helps is i am fast.

There was people that told me that i was way to small to keep on going in hockey. The same people that told me that their kids quit and don't do anything. When they would tell me this i would get the motivaton to prove them wrong. I would show up to the games and make sure that everyone would notice me not for my size but for my skills. That is what happened people started to notice how good i was and then the size went right out the door.

At times there were road blocks that almost kept me from my dream to play college hockey. But it was the fight in me that kept me going. The drive of moivation and the drive to prove people wrong.