JMS Hockey

My Dad turned me on to hockey when I was 10 years old. I wanted to play, he tried to explain to me that girls did not play ice hockey. After constant begging, he told me I could play if I bought my gear. I had a newspaper route, walked with a bag on my shoulder through heavy snow and earned the money to buy all the gear I needed. I started playing on a boys team in South Jersey in Voorhees. I had to get changed in a closet, i wasn't allowed in the locker room with the boys. I was the first girl to ever play hockey there, and I know everyone was a little freaked out because they weren't used to it, it didn't bother me too much. The boys were great, I learned alot from the coaches, I took a hit into the boards and that was the end of that. My Dad wouldn't let me play anymore. So I went back to playing street hockey and would sneak out to the pond whenever I could for a little shinny with the boys. Twenty something years later, I am back on the ice, girls play and life is good!