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I guess it was in evitable that I ' d be on hockey skates at some point in my life, but I did not expect that I ' d become one of a rare group of female ice hockey officials before I even reached high school. Being born into a family of hockey players and figure skaters, it seemed that my desti ny had already bee ndecided. Right from the beg inning, my two older brothers and my father strapped me up and threw me onto the ice. I loved it and, in my mind, I was on my way to beco ming a female Gretzky! But my mom had to think of something fast to drag her little girl away from this sport of ruffia ns. En ter my first hot pink figure skati ng dress! That was all it took to launch fifteen years of competitive figure skating. Even though figure skating soon became my passion, I always had an unsatisfied yearning for ice hockey. It took a great deal of convincing from my parents that competitive figure skating and ice hockey didn
' t mix. My compromise became referee ing ice hockey; little did I know that I was beg inning an activity that would in flue nee my character and who I am today. Whe n I bega n, I would only work with my dad and brothers. accept ing because I had just started. I soon Every one was frie ndly and realized though that to get better I needed to start refereeing with people I wasn ' t
related to, and that ' s when my experienee drastically changed. An apologetic smile and an “I' m sorry ” wasn ' t going to get me through games now. As I began officiating higher-level games and dealing with more arrogant coaches, I suddenly entered a new male-do min ated world, a world I had n ever experie need before. My con fide nee was shot, and all I wan ted to do was get through each game and be able to leave. Sometimes I was eve n too scared to skate along what the coaches the teams ' benches because I would get upset by would yell to me. “ Do you have a hot date toni ght, ref? ” was a typical comme nt that coaches would spit at me duri ng the course of a game. In their eyes, I did not belong on that ice, and they were going to do whatever they could do to make sure no wome n wan ted to officiate their games. I was determ ined not to let them chase me off the ice. I made the decisi on to sta nd up for myself. I n ever resp on ded rudely to the coaches, but I did not let them walk all over me and destroy my con fide nee anym ore. I started to act and feel more like the 4-year certified Atlantic District Official that I am. There were still a few situations scared me. One time I called a penalty that in a champi on ship game duri ng the third overtime and the team I penalized ended up losing because they got scored on. I knew I had

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