Ice hockey-American Coyne Schofield cuts new path for girls in sport


FILE PHOTO: Ice Hockey – 2019 Women's IIHF World Championship - USA v Canada - Espoo, Finland - April 6, 2019. Kendall Coyne Schofield of USA in action. Lehtikuva/Antti Aimo-Koivsto via REUTERS

(Reuters) - Kendall Coyne Schofield never wanted to be a figure skater.

She preferred spending hours playing the informal game of shinny hockey with her older brother but found herself in a pair of figure skates aged three with the rest of the girls at the local ice rink when it came time for skating classes.

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