sports scholarship?

I know you think this is going to be a post about Drew....but it is not! We had the funniest thing happen at Drew's hockey game on Saturday.

Drew was waiting with his team to go out on the ice and Gracie was running around being her "squirrelly" self. She was leaping off the benches doing fancy "hot dog" moves, running for speed and generally hopping around. At one point she stopped to chat with Drew. After they chatted a coach we don't know went up and asked Drew if that was his sister he was talking to. When Drew confirmed that it was, he asked, where is your mom or dad. Drew pointed Jim out and the coach came and talked to him.

Apparently, he was going on and on about Gracie and her speed, strength and energy level and asked if she could skate! He was thrilled when he heard she could skate and was already playing soccer and doing gymnastics. She was flat out being recruited at age six to play ice hockey!!!!

The coach explained to Jim that any of the colleges that give hockey scholarships to boys have to give the same number to girls and since there are a lot less good girls hockey players, there are lots of scholarships to go around. He said he has 2 of his players in high school going to Yale on full scholarships and 1 going to Minnesota.

We talked to Gracie about it and she wants to start playing next year.... She should be pretty good judging from the checking she does against her brother in the family room!