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You Never Know Where Competitive Spirit

Will Take You

By Terry Tinkess “I don’t even notice it,” says
Piquette. “She comes in, her dad
There is no doubt that in hockey, gets her a dressing room and she
the women’s game is growing. gets changed and comes in with
Where not that long ago you would the guys for the pre-game talk and
have had a handful of players who the post-game talk and I don’t even
had to travel far and wide to find notice the difference.”
other teams to play while settling
Seguin says she just tries to
for what ever ice time they could
be a hockey player. She tries to
find. Today, Women’s teams and
model herself after Carey Price and
leagues abound and the dream of
Jonathan Quick, two pretty good
the young girl growing up to play in
players in their own right.
the Olympics, or professionally has
become as much fact as fiction.
As for her own skills, Seguin
Still, circumstances dictate what is thinks she is a pretty good all-
best for the individual and the game around player, but when asked
of hockey has, at least at the minor where you are going to have the
level, had the foresight to leave the most difficulty beating her, she
door open for girls to continue to doesn’t hesitate. “I would have to
play in mixed or “boys” leagues if say glove side is the best.”
they so choose. As for where she would like
hockey to take her, Seguin isn’t
And it isn’t a case of them not sure yet. Right now she is focusing
being taken seriously either. In on stopping the puck, and doing a
many cases, the female player has pretty good job at that.
worked hard to become as good as,
if not better than some of her male YBC bowling results for the

teammates. Just ask Alyssa Seguin, Alyssa Seguin is on the Cornwall Minor Hockey peewee “B” Colts team month of October 2012
who plays on the Cornwall peewee this year because she was one of the best players during tryouts. Her Olympia Bowl,
“B” Colts squad. coach likes her competitive spirit and work ethic. Cornwall High scores Bowlasurus:
Photo by Terry Tinkess Girls single:
Seguin has been playing hockey Andrea Dorie 62
but this year she wanted something number one.” Boys single:
since she was about five years
different. “I found that I needed Porter Vierling 77
old. How she came to become a Piquette says he couldn’t be PeeWees: Girls single & double:
more competition than I was getting
goaltender is a story that has been happier with his choice. “She has Chloe Russell 142 & 281.
in girls hockey,” says Seguin, “so Boys single & doubles:
heard many, many times before. won a game, tied a game, and she
I thought I would try playing in Tyler St Louis 181 & 324.
has been in them all,” he says. “She Bantams: Girls single & triple:
“I’ve been playing since I was Cornwall Minor Hockey.”
hasn’t let in a weak goal and she is Sophia Dorie 209 & 555.
five or six,” says Seguin. “In novice Boys single & triple:
According to her coach, Mike a real competitor, has a will to win
I started out as a player, but our Brayden Boismenu 200 & 542.
Piquette, it was a good decision. and has a very, very good work Juniors: Girls single & triple:
team needed a goalie, so I tried it
ethic.” Sabrina Gatien 288 & 644.
and I liked it.” “She was the best goalie at tryouts,” Boys single & triple:

says Piquette. “ We evaluated people It must be a lot of extra work Thomas Flaro 313 & 857.
And she was good at it. Seguin
on talent, not on gender. She stood though, having one female player Seniors: Girls single & triple:
played previously in the Cornwall Kelsie Granger 353 & 933.
out. She was always in the top two, on an otherwise all-boys team?
Girls Hockey Association (CGHA) Boys single & triple:
and for most of the tryouts she was Brandon Rombough 332 & 777.

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