Mine is not a story of a career ending injury or a forced departure from my sport. I wasn’t beaten or bruised out of the game I loved, and my time on the ice wasn’t unjustly cut short. Rather, mine is the story of a reluctant retirement…
Being a high-performance athlete is incredibly time-consuming. Yes, we all know this, but I really urge you to reflect on it…
Rehab after an injury is no one’s idea of fun. When I got injured, some people outside of my team said how nice it would be to have time off, to not have to work so hard, and to just “sit around and watch Netflix.” While this was pretty much the last thing I wanted to do, it also turned out to be a wholly inaccurate picture of life during recovery…
Confronting an injury is tough in any setting but is even more painful when you have to attend practice or games. The way you experience your sport, team and self has changed. Here are a few things I’ve learned after coming back from surgery to manage stress, time, and expectations while you sit out and heal…
Anyone that has torn an ACL, or has heard a story of someone who has, knows of the one sound that while small and quiet, has the power take down the strong and mighty…
Finishing my senior hockey season and graduating college was filled with mixed emotions. It was somewhere between “oh f*ck… what do I do now?” and a sense of excitement for the next chapter in my life…
People ask me if it hurt. If I heard the bone crack as my shoulder hit the ground, the force of my body falling compounded by the hit and protected by nothing but a dry fit jersey…
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