Chloe Perakslis '21 Recruiting Profile

I've moved around all my life and I just recently moved to where I am now, Hershey PA. The last couple moves I had would have been so much harder without hockey. I picked it up when I was 7 because my older brother started playing it when we moved to South Dakota and I wanted to be just like him. The first year I played, the boys bullied me and I wanted to quit, but my parents wouldn't let me. The next season, I fell in love and 10 years later I'm even more in love with the game. Every time I move, hockey is what helps me meet people who become my friends and teammates for life and I would not have been able to get through my last two moves without it. Hockey is my passion, my future, and my strength. Over the course of these last 10 years of playing hockey I've become confident, strong, hard working, resilient, and I've learned that I can do anything I if I work hard and try for it.  Over  the years, boys that I've played with have tried to break me down, have shown that they don't want me playing with them, and have made me vastly uncomfortable and unwelcome, but that only further pushed and inspired me to prove to them and myself that I do belong and that I can be an asset to the team.  This year, I was the first girl to play on my high school team and I had to work hard for my spot, and next year, as I've been told, there will be more girls trying out for the team and I know they will be more welcomed than I was. This is the kind of strength I've developed through all my years of playing this amazing sport, that I want to and will continue playing in college.

For about as long as I've been playing hockey, I've wanted to major in mechanical engineering in college, and over the course of these last 3 years in high school my plans have changed, but only slightly. I still want to major in mechanical engineering, but I also want to major in business-marketing/sales and minor in neuroscience, psychology, and maybe criminology. To start this journey, I've taken AP psychology, am currently taking AP calculus and engineering design 1, and plan to take AP Biology, survey of engineering, manufacturing tech 1 and 2, and AP Statistics. I want to be as prepared as possible because I know what I want to achieve will be hard, but because of hockey, I know I can do it.