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Local Hockey Player Kloe Lewis: Winning a Spot at

Provincials and What’s Next for Her Athletic Career

the third. I scored the first goal in
By Molly Kett
the first period, but we needed four
goals to win,” said Lewis. “I told
loe Lewis, a sixteen-year-
my team we could still do it and we
Kold hockey player from
Morrisburg, has already achieved a never game up. We ended up getting
wide variety of athletic goals at her it all tied up with just a minute left.
young age. She’s been to Nashville My line mate and I were going into
for a prospect tournament, has the other team’s zone. I called for
been overseas to France and Italy a drop pass then I did a one timer.
for a hockey tournament, and has With just 19 seconds left on the
travelled to Penn State for an elite clock, I scored the winning goal.
The crowed was going nuts. The
hockey camp.
stands were full. Then the buzzer
Lewis played boys hockey for rang, and we won the game making
the Morrisburg Lions all the way it to Provincials for my first time.
up until her first year playing at the Unfortunately, it was canceled due
peewee level, when she switched to COVID.”
over to girl’s hockey and joined the
Lewis’ goal is to make it onto team
RSL Thunder to play competitive
Canada and go to the Olympics.
A/AA hockey. She also played for
Team Ontario Selects and Team Unfortunately, due to COVID,
East Coast Selects Lewis wasn’t able to be on the
ice as much as she’d like this
The season before COVID-19 hit,
year. However, she did dedicate
Lewis ended with the most points
her newfound free time to a good
and goals in her league.
cause, by becoming a Puck Support
“Before COVID hit, I was going Warrior.
to try and go to a lot of tournaments
“As a Puck Support Warrior, I help
to try and get a full ride scholarship
for hockey,” said Lewis. “This spread the word about Puck Support
year starting in June would have and help them come up with ideas
been my first year that coaches to spread awareness about mental
could give me scholarships. When health and addiction. I did a bottle
restrictions lift, I would like to try drive to raise money for them.
and get seen by universities as much My goal was to raise $500. So, I
as I can so I could try and get a full put the word out that I was doing
a bottle drive and I thought I was
ride scholarship. I would also like to
almost there, but I didn’t think I had
try and play for a AA or PW hockey
enough bottles, so I went and picked
team.”
ditches to help me make that $500,”
With all of these incredible said Lewis. “In the end, I ended up
experiences under her belt, Lewis raising over $800 for them. I am
of course has a few highlights so far. also currently doing another bottle

“My last game of the season drive to help out local charities with
before COVID was the game that sports initiatives.”
determined if we went to Provincials With a caring heart and obvious
or not. We would have to win the athletic talent, we’re sure Lewis Photo Submitted
game to go to Provincials. We were will have no problem reaching any
losing 4-1 with 13 minutes left in goal she sets out to accomplish.