EXTRA CREDIT: Ansley LaHue
Goaltender Ansley LaHue, a native of Kennesaw, Ga., traveled all across the southeast playing on both wheels and blades before skating her way onto Yale University’s women’s ice hockey team.
“I started playing roller hockey for my sister’s team,” says LaHue. “Their goalie didn’t show up, so I jumped in for them and I loved it.”
LaHue continued to play roller hockey after that. In 2001, she slipped on a pair of ice skates and switched to ice hockey at the age of 14.
“I played boy’s travel hockey for the Kennesaw Lazers and girl’s travel hockey for Team South, Southern Stars, and Raleigh Storm,” says LaHue.
In addition to these teams, LaHue also played high school hockey. She played three years of boy’s ice hockey for North Cobb High School, and Kennesaw Mountain High School. She also played roller hockey for Norcross High School in 2003, Roswell High School 2003-04, and Milton High School in 2004.
“Lots of travel,” says LaHue. “I loved it though.”
LaHue eventually left her hometown in Georgia to attend Phillips Academy Andover in Andover, Mass. for two years.
“It was tough transitioning between boy’s hockey and girl’s hockey,” says LaHue. “It was a different speed, a lot slower.”
LaHue also played for the travel team, Chelmsford Lions, and led Chelmsford to the semi-finals in the Connecticut Polar Bears tournament in 2006.
Two Division I women’s ice hockey colleges, Dartmouth and Yale, looked to recruit LaHue during her high school career.
She graduated from Andover in 2006, and she decided to attend Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
LaHue played one season at Yale. For the 2006-07 season at Yale, LaHue saw action in four games.
Photos courtesy of Ansley LaHue.
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