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Over the boards : lessons from the ice / Hayley Wickenheiser.
In 'Over the Boards', the greatest womens hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser, shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals, and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short. Wickenhesier divides her time between Calgary, AB, and Toronto, ON.
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- ISBN: 9780735240506 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Viking, 2021.
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âHayley Wickenheiser is an incredible human being . . . this is what a billion hours of hard work looks like.â
âRyan Reynolds
The greatest womenâs hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals, and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short.
There is no one in the world like Hayley Wickenheiser.
13 World Championship appearances. 6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hall of Famer. All while raising a child, earning multiple university degrees, and not benefiting from the financial stability male professional athletes have. She gave the game everything she hadânow, Hayley shares what the game gave her.
From motherhood to pro leagues to her new career in medicine, Hayley shares the hard-won lessons she learned on and off the ice that helped her not only have a record-breaking hockey career but craft a life filled with joy, growth, and challenges. In her own words, Hayley shares how she rose from the backyard pond and changing in boiler rooms (because girls' dressing rooms didnât exist) to Olympic MVP (twice). How becoming a parent made her a better athlete. How she learned to thrive under monumental pressure. But she doesnât stop at revealing the pillars to her tremendous successâHayley delves into her immense failures and how she grew from them. Like Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, and Abby Wambach before her, Hayley shares her wisdom through personal stories of triumph, relentlessness, and more than a couple confrontations. Told with humour, compassion, and steadfast optimism, Hayleyâs practical advice, coaching, and invaluable perspective inspires readers to never accept âthatâs not the way we do thingsâ or âthat hasnât been done beforeâ as limitations. An empowering and pragmatic guide, Hayley encourages readers to not follow in her footsteps, but to carve their own ice.
