“If you think you’re doing enough, you’re not,” said Kollar of what he tells other young goalies who aspire to follow in Campbell’s footsteps.Ĭampbell, who has most recently been training on the National Women’s Team roster as well as playing in the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) Dream Gap Tour with some of women’s hockey’s top players, has been working a long time to get to where she is now. Iceplex Manager of Goalie Development Andy Kollar has for years been inspiring young goalies, both male and female, to play like and have the work ethic of Campbell. In Winnipeg, and specifically at Bell MTS Iceplex, those compliments would instead be for goalies to hear that they’re stopping the puck like Kristen Campbell.

In the commercial, a coach uses female hockey players to elaborate his points, telling one player that he’s skating like Canadian Olympic star Marie-Philip Poulin, while telling another that his wrist shot looked like American superstar Hillary Knight’s. High-level female hockey players have been putting the phrase “you play like a girl” to shame for quite some time.īauer Hockey recently released a commercial promoting women’s hockey that turned that historically derogatory phrase into one filled with pride.

She graduated in 2012 and moved to Utah, where she attended college and training with the United States national program.Goal-setting goaltender: Kristen Campbell paves the way to the National Women’s Team for young Manitoba goalies She refocused her training toward not just earning a spot on the Olympic team but competing for a medal in 2022.Ī former figure skater, Santos competed in soccer and track at Fairfield Warde High.

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