About Us

Antonette.

Caroline.
about me...
I grew up in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh and was always a pretty big sports fan, but never that great at playing them myself. I played field hockey for six years but I quit before my senior year because I was tired of feeling like the slowest, the weakest, and hating my feet for not being nimble. I really wanted to be an athlete, but just felt like it wasn't for me.

I moved to Minnesota when I started college--and you just try living in Minnesota and not getting caught up in hockey. My junior year, I started taking skating lessons and a year after that, I started playing at the C3 Women's level. I could write so much more about this, and have, and probably will. I'll sum it up now by saying that, more than anything, playing hockey has grown my confidence. I know it's a cliche but it's true: confidence in new situations and meeting new people. And confidence in myself, knowing that I can want something, work hard at it, and see huge improvements.

I love hockey. I love rinks and I love skating and I love being on a team and I love buzzers and zambonis and pucks and sticks and being sore and hauling my gear in from the car and I even love wondering every single time why rinks make their doors so small when they know people are going through them with huge hockey bags (seriously. WAT IS THIS?).

why I'm here...
What I don't love is that it's a man's world. Players, refs, coaches, managers, scouts=all overwhelmingly male. Even for girls' and women's teams (though there is predictably some more equality there). Thinking about where my life is going, I know it will continue to combine hockey and feminism because those are the two things that mean the most to me. If this blog is all I manage to contribute to women playing hockey (and working in hockey), so be it.