Nela Lopusanova to debut for Bishop Kearney high school in Rochester, N.Y.
Everything is new and foreign – the food, language, geography and many of her teammates – for Nela Lopusanova after packing her hockey gear and leaving behind her family to make the 15-hour, 7,000-kilometre trek from Zilina, Slovakia, to upstate New York.
Unfamiliar as Lopusanova is with her new surroundings, she quickly discovered her reputation as a teenage hockey phenom preceded her arrival. Discussing how enthused she is after her first practice with the Bishop Kearney high school Selects Academy, Lopusanova was interrupted by a passerby. “It was my dream and I was really working hard on that,” she said. “I was hoping that I would be here. And now I’m here. It’s a really good feeling for me.”
Lopusanova took up figure skating at 2, and turned to hockey at 4, watching her older brother Simon play, and after attending an IIHF girls hockey program in her hometown. “It was surprising to hear that she was only 14, especially when you’re watching her, right? She looks like the best player on the ice,” Kane said, adding what impressed him was the joy she displayed after each goal. “It’s nice to see that passion, that someone loves the game that much.”
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