facts about me that surprise me

[flea]

I have two first cousins - our fathers are brothers - who were born and raised in Montreal. Both are girls, aged 26 and 23 or so at this writing. They are/were both star university-level hockey players. The elder holds the current record at McGill for number of goals scored in her liftime as a player, and the younger seems to be currently playing and also a high-scorer, so I guess they're both forwards. They're both mid-sized women, maybe 5'7" and don't appear to be bruisers when you meet them.

The idea of anyone sharing that many genes with me being that sporty in that kind of a sport just sort of boggles me. I am so unsporty, and if I were sporty, I can only imagine myself being, I don't know, an orienteering champion or something.

Sadly, despite some speculation that she might be tapped, the elder is not on the 2006 Olympic roster for Canada.

Yes, my branch of the family is the underachieveing one.

Comments

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Very cool. A friend of ours helped coach the national team a few years ago; I wonder if she'd recognize the name.

Hockey is the only sport I've considered taking up as an adult -- but that would require re-learning to skate, so it's not likely to happen in this century.

[makaidiver.livejournal.com]

> Yes, my branch of the family is the underachieveing one.

(rolls eyes forever) RIIIIIGHT.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

The idea of anyone sharing that many genes with me being that sporty in that kind of a sport just sort of boggles me.

Didn't your sister play rugby in college?

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Both of my brothers were college athletes, with 20-20 vision. (They also got curly hair.) And yet they have more in common genetically with me than you with your cousins....