“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 as the goalie and team captain for “Netstix & Chill,” one of 10 teams in the Pittsburgh Women’s Ball Hockey League. It is one of the only all-women’s ball hockey leagues in the region.
Jennifer Free, 38, of Murrysville grew up watching the Penguins and is a “hockey mom” to two young boys who play at the Murrysville SportZone and in Penn Hills.
“I’ve always been really involved with my sons, and I thought a women’s league might be something fun for all of us,” Free said.
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