By Haley Jung
Cardinal Staff
Senior Erin Stenseth has traded her days as a player on the Saint Mary’s
women’s hockey team for a role on the team’s coaching staff after suffering a
torn labrum.
This season the women’s hockey team has a new assistant coach with a
familiar face to the players. It was only last year that Stenseth was a member
of SMU’s women’s hockey team as well as the fastpitch softball team.
However, Stenseth is unable to play both sports this year due to a
shoulder injury that occurred during last year’s softball season. She said the
doctors found she had a torn labrum, which required surgery to fix.
“The whole view of the game has changed for me,” said Stenseth.
Knowing that she was unable to compete after her surgery, Stenseth said
women’s hockey Coach Terry Mannor offered her a chance to be on the team as a
coach. Still wanting to be part of the team and be around her friends, she
accepted the role.
“It is still fun to be around the team,” said Stenseth. “At practice, I
am comfortable telling the players what they can work on because I know they
will give me feedback so I can improve as a coach as well.”
Stenseth said the hardest part about being a coach is seeing the frustration
the team is feeling. “Seeing them
struggle is hard to see,” she said. She said she knows she can’t be out on the
ice playing with them and helping them in game settings.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please use this form to send your comments to the Cardinal Online editor.
If you would like to remain anonymous include ONLY your e-mail address along with your comment. If you want your name along with your comment, include your name and your e-mail address.
E-mail addresses will be taken out of the comment before they are posted. It only gives us a way to verify who submitted the comment.
Comments without email addresses will NOT be published.
IMPORTANT: You must select Anonymous as your Identity (below the box for entering your comment).
Comments submitted using the Google/Blogger identity will not be published.
If you have not read them, please review our commenting guidelines before you submit your comments.