Player Profile: Bea Heghmann
| Team: Saturday |
| Jersey Number: 45 (I chose my jersey number (#45) after "Rudy" Ruettiger from Notre Dame fame. His film inspired me to try something that I had really thought would be out of reach. "Yes I can," he would say! I was "five foot nothing and didn’t have a speck of talent" ... to loosely quote a line from the film...) |
| Position: Forward |
| Shoots: Right |
| Number of Years with the Nor'Easters: 2 |
Bea says:
I started playing hockey just about two years ago after only having skated as a kid. We had moved to NH in 1996 but had never really been exposed to hockey except for our teams back in NY. In 2004, my daughter's high school started a girl's hockey team and my daughter was their goalie. After her team won their division that year, hockey had become a big part of our life. But after 2 years as a spectator, I was ready to have some fun, too.
One afternoon, I was on an arena web site looking for my daughter's game schedule and I saw an ad for an Intro to Hockey program, "no age limit and no prior skills necessary." That was perfect for me. I convinced myself to take the plunge, now or never. I rented hockey skates the next couple of weekends and went off to public skating. I emptied the stacks of the UNH library for their books about hockey drills and skills. I read everything I could find, talked to anyone who would talk to me who knew anything about hockey and watched hockey any time, any place. I bought used hockey equipment and decked myself all out. I was ready.
After having several "spectacular" falls that first day at Intro, my kids, there for moral support, just looked at each other and said - "Is she for real, poor Mommy!" Yes for real, I was hooked. I called around to local rinks to see who had teams and what level they were at as the reality had set in that this was no simple game. I showed up one night at the Everett, met some really nice folks and well, 2 years later, the rest is history.