JMS Hockey

Captain Spotlight special edition - John Swanberg (655 games). John is over 80 years old and still rocking it at JMS games! Tell us about yourself: I have been playing JMS since around 2008. Great format and good group of skaters at all levels. I started playing hockey back in Anoka as a kid. In 1954-55 I attended Shattuck/St. James in Faribault and played there. My last few years I played for Anoka and in 1958 walked on at the University of Minnesota freshman tryout. An eye injury defeated that adventure. After college I did my service obligation with the U S Marine Corps. I came back to hockey after about 20 years out of the game. I play with an AHA D-1 team, a HF team and with the Marine Corps team in the Armed Forces tournament in March. I am a Scuba instructor and Emergency First Responder Instructor so looking forward to another trip to the South Pacific area this next year diving. My true sport is water skiing. I skied my first tournament in the Minneapolis Aquatennial in 1954 and have been a competitor ever since. A few years back I played in the over 60 National Hockey tournament in Florida for Schwan's rink and later that year water skied in the National Water Ski Championship also in Florida which was a great honor if not expensive. Most of the JMS skaters and friends know me as “Swanny“ (although I’ve been called worse).

Glad to see you're still playing, Swanny! Miss ya at the Maple Grove games.