Girls Hockey Movie Premiere

A new sports film from Aha Sports premieres in a week

Despite the US Women’s Hockey Team winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, most high schools in the country did not offer girls ice hockey as a varsity sport. For a school like Bellows Free Academy (BFA) in St. Albans, Vermont — an institution that had graduated college and NHL superstar hockey players like John LeClair — that was going to change in 2001, once the state of Vermont voted to have a varsity girls high school hockey league.

2002: A Vermont Hockey Odyssey will premiere on the big screen Tuesday, November 18th at the historic Welden Theatre, and shares the story of one of the nation’s first girls hockey championships. Faced with numerous challenges to get the program up and running, including preseason and in-season medical incidents that not only cost the BFA girls hockey team pivotal wins, but nearly some players’ lives. Experience how a storied high school from a small New England town overcame a variety of obstacles to cement its place in the history books of North American hockey.

Watch the trailer to this new sports movie from Aha Sports and film director Michael LaRocque:

To learn more about this amazing tale of resiliency and triumph, visit BFAHockey.com.