Jen Free was perched near rink level at one of her oldest son’s hockey games. She was running the clock, internally pondering why she was watching instead of playing the game herself. Despite never playing hockey in an organized fashion growing up, Free was an avid street hockey player in her youth. Motivated by her passion for hockey, Free was…
“Pure terror — but also exciting!” That’s how Jocelyn Gunia of Bethel Park described the first time a shot came whizzing directly at her in goal while she was playing dek hockey. Gunia, 30, spent most of the past decade as a casual hockey fan, watching alongside her husband. These days, she drives an hour every Friday night to play…
Just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania every Thursday evening, carloads of women roll into the parking lot of the Murrysville SportsZone for a night of ball hockey. For once though, they aren’t there to cheer on their kids and husbands; they are there as players of the only all-women ball hockey league in the Pittsburgh area. The league was organized by…
