How did you get started playing hockey?

My younger brother played hockey in Newark in middle school and high school.  After college I moved back to the area and lived with my parents for a little while.  Eric was in tech school for the Air National Guard, so all of his hockey stuff was still in the basement.  I had played broomball on an IM team in college, so I figured I was qualified for hockey.  I didn’t know anyone who played in the women’s league, but I signed up, showed up, geared up (in my brother’s stinky old pads) and have had a blast!

How long have you played?

I started in fall of ’08 or winter ’09.

Favorite hockey player:

Like every other girl in central Ohio, Rick Nash

Favorite hockey team:

The Blue Jackets!

Hockey wish:

Not to play against Angie and Sarah for one week!!  ;)

Personal:

I recently married my soul mate and we live in Newark with our border collie/ lab mix puppy, Penny.  Paul and I met at the only Super Bowl party in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2006.  We’ve been long-distance for 4 years (which is why I often rolled in to hockey on Sunday nights straight from the road after visiting him in upstate New York), and now we finally live in the same house!

Occupation:

Graduate student and teaching assistant in history at Ohio State and weekend server/ bartender at The Short Story in Granville.

Hobbies:

Reading, sewing, travel, theatre, gardening, goofing off, cooking with Paul (with Penny underfoot trying to catch scraps)

Favorite food:

Homemade mac and cheese.  Ooey-gooey deliciousness

Favorite movie(s):

Amadeus, Up

One of my favorite things I’ve ever done is...

Go to the 2006 winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.  My friend and I were too broke to get a hotel room, so we slept on a train station floor to be able to afford to see curling and ice hockey.  I was at the women’s ice hockey bronze final when the U.S. beat Finland 4-0!

One of my favorite things I’ve never done is...

set foot on all seven continents.