From a frozen puddle to a hockey arena. The story of Linda Rulle

Looking back, we can see that Linda has come a long way. He managed to skate from the frozen puddle to the other side of the world and get closer to a professional hockey career. Now the young woman, who is already (and at the same time – only) 19 years old, plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), representing the Rochester Institute of Technology team “Tigers”.

However, while playing hockey and following the path of a hockey player, Linda also had to face stereotypes and misunderstanding. She remembers one case particularly vividly: after suffering an injury, she went to the doctor. The doctor asked where she got hit, and when he heard the answer that it was during a hockey game, he disdainfully took off: “What kind of hockey are you, you’re a girl. A girl should go figure skating!” “I felt a lot of anger,” Linda remembers. “And anger gave me even more motivation to go forward without giving up and to prove that a woman on the ice is normal. And in general, what about understanding! It is in figure skating that there is a chance of getting more injuries, because they don’t have protectors. If you fall, it hurts. We, on the other hand, are in full equipment, which protects well. No other sport gives me the feeling that I am myself. Putting myself on the field with one hundred percent, all the sorrows and stresses are forgotten. And for the fact that I, a girl, play hockey, I feel positively different. I’m doing what many don’t do. That’s good,” she encourages.