Henry and Bryn have been Wisconsin fans for a while but it went into overdrive when their kindergarten class found out they were going to be visited by the Badger Women's Hockey team. They were the first kindergarten class to win the "golden cone" award for being quiet in the halls. Thanks to some great staff with some sweet Badger connections, they got to hang out with the women and were each given an official WCHA hockey puck. You can barely see H and B's head since they were standing as close to the players as possible.
The players who had come to their class invited them to come to "Skate with the Badgers" which followed a home game. Henry took that as an order and insisted we all go since the girls told them to come. We met friends at the game and brought along the hockey skates so they could skate around and get autographs. Bryn was serious about getting as many as she could and came home with a poster full of Badger players by skating to as many as she could. She was on a mission. Above they posed with good friends Jocie, Maya and hockey player Meghan Duggan.
You can see that the hockey ladies were in large numbers around H and B. After he got this autograph another player knelt down and asked him if he wanted her autograph and he said "no thanks." I felt so sorry for her to get dejected by a 5 year old and she was rather surprised too. Henry later told me that he didn't hear what she said and then got nervous. Later on I saw him on the opposite side of ice rink flanked by two hockey players and they were having their picture taken by the team photographer. Leave it to the little man.
Badger fever didn't end as they cheered for the Badgers in the Rose Bowl with friends.
Last but not least... they signed up for a hockey clinic with the Badger women to learn some tricks. Turns out they weren't on the ice long since the majority of kids there were in full out hockey uniforms and gear and B, H and some school friends were clearly out of their league. Since the numbers were so huge they took some kids off the ice which was them and their pals and they got to play some agility drills in the gym instead followed by pizza with Bucky.
Henry and Bryn have been Wisconsin fans for a while but it went into overdrive when their kindergarten class found out they were going to be visited by the Badger Women's Hockey team. They were the first kindergarten class to win the "golden cone" award for being quiet in the halls. Thanks to some great staff with some sweet Badger connections, they got to hang out with the women and were each given an official WCHA hockey puck. You can barely see H and B's head since they were standing as close to the players as possible.
The players who had come to their class invited them to come to "Skate with the Badgers" which followed a home game. Henry took that as an order and insisted we all go since the girls told them to come. We met friends at the game and brought along the hockey skates so they could skate around and get autographs. Bryn was serious about getting as many as she could and came home with a poster full of Badger players by skating to as many as she could. She was on a mission. Above they posed with good friends Jocie, Maya and hockey player Meghan Duggan.
You can see that the hockey ladies were in large numbers around H and B. After he got this autograph another player knelt down and asked him if he wanted her autograph and he said "no thanks." I felt so sorry for her to get dejected by a 5 year old and she was rather surprised too. Henry later told me that he didn't hear what she said and then got nervous. Later on I saw him on the opposite side of ice rink flanked by two hockey players and they were having their picture taken by the team photographer. Leave it to the little man.
Badger fever didn't end as they cheered for the Badgers in the Rose Bowl with friends.
Last but not least... they signed up for a hockey clinic with the Badger women to learn some tricks. Turns out they weren't on the ice long since the majority of kids there were in full out hockey uniforms and gear and B, H and some school friends were clearly out of their league. Since the numbers were so huge they took some kids off the ice which was them and their pals and they got to play some agility drills in the gym instead followed by pizza with Bucky.
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