Alex Donoghue had to make a tough decision — club ice hockey or club soccer.
She had been playing ice hockey since she was 5 years old, but as an eighth-grader, her weekly practices for the New Jersey Colonials ice hockey team and Cedar Stars Academy soccer team conflicted much too frequently.
Donoghue felt like she was a better soccer player, so she left the Colonials. It wasn’t always easy to live with that decision, however.
“I definitely was missing hockey a lot,” she said. “I was like, ‘Yeah, I wish I got to play hockey,’ and almost questioning my decision with quitting.”
Still, she knew her time playing ice hockey wasn’t finished. She fully intended to join the Chatham girls hockey team once she arrived in high school.
Now a freshman, not only is she on the team, she’s one of the top scorers in the state and a big reason why Chatham is much improved in the standings.
