I’m grateful to my high school Humanities teacher who coached our high school girls’ team and introduced me to hockey. I’m glad to have hockey in my life because it has helped me gain an extra community while I’m at the beginning of a new school program and serves as a nice stress relieving form of exercise.
The weekend of September 14-16, some classmates, upper years and I played in Icebowl, a tournament in Edmonton against other med students from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We didn’t win but it was a lot of fun. Our flight home from Edmonton got cancelled and all sorts of other unexpected things happened, which led to some great bonding and now we each have a great story to tell.
As if we didn’t get our fill, we played in a first years versus second years game the night we got back to Vancouver. It was a intense game since the second years made a bet with us. We were evenly matched game all the way until our class won during the shoot-out.
I’m part of the UBC medicine intramural hockey team called the “Mighty Docs” this year, and I’m glad that I have opportunities to continue play. I highly encourage anyone interested to give ice hockey a try!