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In conversation with ice-hockey player Kelly Babstock

Youth Media Forward participant Jeevan interviews Kelly Babstock, a Canadian-American ice hockey player with the Boston Fleet, in the Professional Women’s Hockey League.

(Photo by Troy Parla/Getty Images)

Babstock has Ojibwe roots and is originally from Little Current on Manitoulin Island, part of the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. She talks about her experience as a woman of indigenous heritage in a male-dominated sport and provides advice for aspiring athletes.

“Don’t worry about the noise, and stick to your game….”

Jeevan is a Toronto-based participant in Youth Media Forward: meet the Toronto participants here