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Meet Sean Murray - Cornwall Former Cornwall Resident

Colts’ Equipment Trainer Astra Groskaufmanis Talks

Hockey, being a Hockey Mom
By Victoria Klassen

ean Murray’s lifelong passion for
Shockey eventually led him to his and her New Book
job as the Cornwall Colts’ Junior A of a Hockey Mom published this
equipment trainer. He says he loves By Molly Kett year. The book was six years in the
hockey and has been involved with it
for over 20 years. stra Groskaufmanis has been making and it wasn’t until her two
Aliving in the Ottawa area for boys retired from minor hockey that
Murray says he used to watch the
practices of the Cornwall Royals, a sixteen years. She is a graduate of she had time to fi nish it. “The book
former Ontario Hockey League team. Cornell University and has been is not about hockey. Hockey is the
It was Paul Fixter, a former coach working in the human resources back story, as is the case with so

for the Royals, who got Murray field for about twenty-five years. much of life in Canada. It’s a humour
involved. Before he began working She says she somehow has “also memoir about motherhood and my
with the Cornwall Colts, Murray been a zamboni fumes inhaling life as a hockey mom, written almost

says he worked with the American before games. hockey mom for the last fifteen entirely in tongue and cheek,” says
Hockey League’s Cornwall Aces in There is one challenge that comes years. I am a wife and a mom of Groskaufmanis. “I started writing
1996, which was their last season. three teenagers. I love hockey but about motherhood experiences on
with being an equipment trainer,
Murray has many duties as an which Murray says is not wanting also love to write, read, cook, and my blog The Dust Bunny Chronicles
equipment trainer, which include to forget anything that the players travel. Aside from being a hockey in 2009. Naturally with three kids
keeping the players’ jerseys ready for need. Murray says “making lifelong mom, I have also been a baseball in hockey, two boys and a girl, many

games, doing the laundry, and other friends with some good guys” is his mom, golf mom, field hockey of the stories were hockey-related.
odd jobs. “Game day is all about favourite part about working with mom, track mom, wrestling mom, Friends and family persuaded me to
hanging the jerseys up in the players’ the Cornwall Colts’ hockey team. snowboard and ski mom ... but write a book about my hockey mom
stalls, getting their socks ready, and “Being around hockey for more than never a dance mom.” experiences.”
making sure the dressing room is 20 years and making friends with the Groskaufmanis had her book Groskaufmanis is very honest
ready for the visiting team too,” says players makes this an easy job,” says Offside by a Mile: Confessions about what being a hockey mom is
Murray, talking about the preparation Murray. Continued on page 8

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