Female Goalie Eyeing Junior A Hockey, Relative hockey newbie, Peyton Parker, sets her sights on standing between the Junior League goal posts. Female goalie Peyton Parker aspires to play Junior A hockey, Peyton Parker seems focused more on overcoming being a short goalie rather than being the "girl goalie," which is how it should be.
It will be a long time before it is not news when a junior hockey team has a woman in net. In Parker's case, it's a safe bet the female goalies who preceded her at the junior level - the roll call includes Canadian Olympic team star Shannon Szabados, current Harvard freshman Emerance Maschmayer and pioneer Manon Rhéaume - did not do so after playing organized hockey for only five years.
Last month, the 18-year-old made the Junior B Almonte Thunder after reaching the main camp with the Hawkesbury Hawks of the Junior A Central Canada Hockey League, where she turned in a shutout period in preseason. As a latecomer to the goaltenders' union who's also 5-foot-6, Parker is hopeful that holding her own among harder-shooting male players could lead to her earning a NCAA scholarship. Playing female hockey can be fun, but junior hockey is her best bet to earn that coveted chance to move away from home to study and play.
It will be a long time before it is not news when a junior hockey team has a woman in net. In Parker's case, it's a safe bet the female goalies who preceded her at the junior level - the roll call includes Canadian Olympic team star Shannon Szabados, current Harvard freshman Emerance Maschmayer and pioneer Manon Rhéaume - did not do so after playing organized hockey for only five years.
Last month, the 18-year-old made the Junior B Almonte Thunder after reaching the main camp with the Hawkesbury Hawks of the Junior A Central Canada Hockey League, where she turned in a shutout period in preseason. As a latecomer to the goaltenders' union who's also 5-foot-6, Parker is hopeful that holding her own among harder-shooting male players could lead to her earning a NCAA scholarship. Playing female hockey can be fun, but junior hockey is her best bet to earn that coveted chance to move away from home to study and play.
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