Noel learning to play hockey

Noel had been taking hockey lessons since April. She is enjoying it very much, and learning a lot. She will continue taking lessons through the most of the summer. She is the only girl in the class of ten 5-6 year olds. It doesn't faze her at all. (She also likes ballet and tap dancing!)

Noel has watched college hockey at UNH since she was a baby, and also watched her father play in a men's hockey league when they lived in MA. When she learned before moving to Texas that girls play hockey, too, she expressed the interest in learning. There is a rink her home, the Dallas Stars provided the hockey uniforms for the kids, and she is having a good time. Notice that her pink skate guards, and pink tape on her hockey stick give away the fact that she is a girl!