'If one little girl says, 'I want to play hockey because she's playing hockey,' I think that would mean the world to me.' — usahockey's Abby Roque WinterOlympics
,"Minority players need representation. If you look at a team and just see more of the same white men playing the game, you're not going to get girls involved, you're not going to get young minority players involved. I'm hoping in 10 to 15 years, we'll see a big shift because of the visibility we're trying to create right now. I want to be a piece of that and say, 'I'm here.
"If one little girl says, 'I want to play hockey because she's playing hockey,' I think that would mean the world to me." "It's a challenge, I know, for a lot of Indigenous kids to get off the reserve or get off the band and move away and fit in," Roque's father, a former hockey coach now working as a scout for the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs,."But Abby was obviously real lucky that she grew up with a lot of kids like that in her town."
Roque is also the only BIPOC player on the US women's hockey roster — a fact that doesn't surprise her."[N]ot many minority players have had the privilege to play or have felt included. That's something that needs to change in hockey as a whole," she told Self."And that's why we want to make it more inclusive and make it available to everybody who wants to play.
Roque told CNN,"If one little girl says, 'I want to play hockey because she's playing hockey,' I think that would mean the world to me — just changing one person's trajectory and letting them know that there is a place for them in hockey."
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