Overview:

From the time Manon Rhéaume was old enough to tie on a pair of ice skates, she dreamed of playing hockey. So when the team her father coached was in need of a goalie, five-year-old Manon begged for a chance to play. She didn’t care that she’d be the only girl in the entire league, or that hockey was considered a “boy’s sport” in 1978 in her hometown of Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Canada; she just wanted to be in the game. Her father agreed and Manon embarked on a ground-breaking career in hockey.

At every level of competition, tournament rules had to be changed to allow Manon to play. But play she did, earning her place on prestigious teams and ultimately becoming the first woman to play in  the National Hockey League. With an afterward by Manon Rhéaume herself, this true story of courage, determination, and love for the sport, tells for the first time how an amazing woman dared to go where no woman had gone before and inspired generations of girls and women to take to the ice.