Field hockey

these lessons. I grew up as one of these kids, I have played a wide range of sports, consisting of baseball, soccer, hockey, and swimming. Each one of these sports has taught me lessons I could not have gotten anywhere else, but the most significant lessons I have learned, are from hockey. These lessons consist of teamwork, responsibility, and respect. I first started playing hockey when I was eight years old. The season had already started, so I had joined in the middle. The first time I…

On April 27th, I went to a lacrosse game over at the Hilbert College. It is a home game, unfortunately, because Immaculata does not have enough space, we had to pay the game at Hilbert’s sports field. We played against St. Mary. We lost the game by a lot of points. The score was 8 to 16. Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by eastern Woodlands Native Americans and by some Plains Indians tribes in what is now Canada. The game was extensively modified by European immigrants to…

Caption: Looking beyond this hockey puck, this Canadian icon represents my interpretations of self, both on a personal level and as a Canadian citizen. This puck has formed international bonds between countries across the globe. Its heritage symbolizes the acceptance of everyone regardless of their nationality, race, culture or religion. Growing up playing hockey from a young age, this puck has shown me that objectives in life are not always easy to obtain, sometimes you have to dig in the…

I come from a figure skating background. From a very young age, most of my time was spent at the rink. Growing up, I undoubtedly spent more waking hours with my skating coach than with my own mother. This cold damp place was home. It is where I trained, ate, did school, socialized, laughed, cried, and even took the odd nap. It was as familiar as my favourite pair of lucky socks (yes, us figure skaters are very superstitious). I knew the best hiding spots, for when I needed time alone or…

“Apply all of your corrections, think about everything we have practiced, and have fun! Put your minds to what it is you want to accomplish.” These were the words of my synchronized skating coach before we took to the ice at Nationals. In February 2014, my team and I competed at the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We had a great season leading up to this point, medaling at all but one competition and only missing that one by about half a point. This was…

Parents, trying to make the next me, will make their children start at a young age. More and more parents will do this, sparking an age of hockey players that will put up numbers similar to mine. Hockey then will be more exciting to watch, with all the talent that is being shown. With what the parents are doing, will make the competition of the Association hockey will be far greater, because of the talent that is being brought up. The kids that haven’t started early will have to compete for…

My Favorite Sport I was 5 going on 6 when my mom first took me to Iceland Skating Rink in Sacramento. After a few visits at Iceland, I ask my mom if l could take lessons. Hesitant my mom agreed, not knowing that I would not only like it but be good at skating. So the journey began! My mom had seen a coach working with children my age,her name was Judy. Tall and Lean Judy was a nice Drill Sargent who produced winners and l was one of them! In order to be good at Ice Skating you must…

We all know that being Canadian isn't an easy thing to do. You have to have extreme dedication to Tim Hortons, and Ice Hockey. Be careful, in Canada they do not call it ice hockey, it is hockey, and all other forms of hockey do not exist there. Also, try to avoid talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs, and their fifty year losing streak. They all know that it is happening, but they chose to ignore it. Tim Hortons is the base religon of Canada. If you do not have a cup of Timmies in your hand at…

During a hockey game, an unidentified observer watches the reactions of a first-time spectator. The unidentified observer describes the spectator’s reactions to the hockey match in order to convince sports neophytes that by overcoming the initial confusion to a sport, one will experience more satisfaction watching the game. He incorporates shifting tone, euphonious diction, and parallel syntax to encourage sport neophytes to enjoy hockey. The narrator communicates the spectator’s change in…

Miracle is a 2004 film that tells the true story of the 1980 United States Men’s Hockey team as they prepare and compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. Herb Brooks, former player now the head coach, along with his assistant coach Craig Patrick, take on the difficult task of putting together a team of young men. At this time NHL players were not allowed to play in the Olympics, so Brooks was forced to assemble a group of college players to compete against the best world has to…