It happened rather suddenly.
"I woke up and just decided I wanted to play, I guess," she said. Before that, it was a childhood not filled with sports, but other activities.
"It was mostly just -- I was a little girl, playing with Barbies, and all that kind of stuff," she added. "I never really showed interest until this one day I kind of just decided I wanted to."
The way she describes her adolescence, like her sudden interest in hockey, is quite ordinary....
