Madison Fox '21 Recruiting Profile

In the future, I can see myself being a leader of a college hockey team. Before I started ice hockey, I was a figure skater for 7 years. I learned to skate fairly early in my childhood, which tends to separate me now from other girl hockey players because the technique in figure skating is much different than ice hockey. As a figure skater, your edges, stride, and backwards skating is very important so having to work on that for many years, has led me to being a very good skater. Especially as a defenseman. I started playing hockey later than most girls, so my stick skills were a little behind at the beginning. When I had first joined a hockey team, my coach at the time told me “ you are going to play wing. In the defensive zone, get the puck to the center, then come to the bench.“ But I wanted to contribute more. So I had working out off the ice, skating and practicing on my own time because I wanted to make myself better to prove people wrong. I had finally started to catch up to everyone else and all the coaches had started to realize it. My backwards skating, edges, and stick skills improved by so much that I had become a defenseman. I truly wanted to be more than a girl who just gives the puck to someone else and just gets off. I wanted to be apart of something, so I worked for it. Now I have been on my High schools varsity team since my freshman year, and got voted by my teammates as the assistant captain my junior year and now I have girls looking up to me and wanting to work harder to get to that next level.