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for college, then to Austria
to play professionally.
Balmoral Hall is my second
home, I loved this place so
much it was easy to make
the decision to come back
and rejoin the Blazers; now
as a coach and mentor.”
Boulton was a tremendous
player just as Miswaggon is
now. Meanwhile, acting head
coach Sarah Zacharias is
thrilled to have Miswaggon on
the roster because she brings
so much to the rink every day.
“Poised. That’s the best
word I can use to describe
Kennesha’s play,” said Coach
Zacharias. “I’ve heard coaches
say, ‘She lacks urgency,’ and I
love that about her game. She
is so poised under pressure.
You can’t rattle her. You can’t
get under her skin. You can’t
get her off her game. She
sees the ice incredibly well
and moves beautifully. She’s
the defenseman that once
or twice a game, minimum,
you’re watching make an
end-to-end rush and she
makes it look so effortless.
And she finds a way to put
the puck in the net at the end
of it so that’s always nice.”
Miswaggon, who won a gold
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medal in U-16 doubles canoe
at the 2017 North American
Indigenous Games in Toronto,
started skating when she was
three and started playing
hockey at age four. There
weren’t girls’ teams in Cross
Lake so she played with the
boys until she was 13, when
she went to Thompson to
play for the Norman Triple A
bantam girls team. At 15, she
took a chance and moved to
Winnipeg to board at Balmoral
Hall and play for the Blazers.
She’s now deciding which
university hockey scholarship
to accept and yet she still has
this season and one more at
Balmoral Hall.
“She’s getting all these
calls from university teams, I
think she’ll be committing by
Christmas,” said Zacharias.
“Kennesha’s amazing, both
as a per