16U
Lauren Straus

Lauren Straus - Lauren started playing hockey when she was 3. She played roller for about 4-5 years, then switched to ice with the Las Vegas Outlaws. She use to sit with her dad and watch the Kings play on TV. One of her favorite players is Chris Ferraro and she's been able to skate a couple of times with him. Lauren was a stand out forward on the 16s this year and is a top collegiate prospect heading into her senior year. As one of the top scorers in the Pacific District this season, Lauren has demonstrated a strong work ethic and outstanding team play throughout the entire season.

Lauren's favorite food is salmon. In her free time, she likes to go to the rink and help with the girls hockey program. When she's home she takes her dog Cutie to the park and spends lots of time with her. She's spent the last 6 years commuting to Southern California to play hockey and once again produced another outstanding effort! Great season, Lauren!

Megan Crandell - Megan started playing roller hockey when she was 5 years old. She had no skating experience and would come home after each game, put her wet, sweaty and smelly gear back on and practice in the back yard in 100 degree weather. She had such determination to become better. Last year she wanted to cross over to ice, so she started clinics at Anaheim Ice. Coach Kathy invited her to practice with the 12's and what a shock that was when she saw how good they were! Especially since she would have to try out for the 14u's. Once she start practicing with the LD's Megan knew her work was cut out for her if she wanted to make the team. She did everything possible to get lessons, clinics and whatever ice time she could grab. Megan says that making the 14U team this year has been "one of the biggest joys of her life"!

Megan also plays school volleyball, flag football, roller hockey, baseball, but much of her time, when she's not playing hockey, is spent on her skateboard or BMX bike on the trails of Fullerton where she meets with friends after school and comes home bruised and bloody.

Megan attends Beechwood Jr. High in Fullerton and is in the 8th grade. She will attend Troy High School next year. Megan yearns to play college hockey.

Off the ice Megan is always attached to her ITOUCH, loves all food, has just discovered sushi and has never turned down a chocolate bar. Mini hockey is always going on in the living room at home.

Kara Drexler - Kara is in her 3rd year with the Lady Ducks. She is in 7th grade and is an honor roll student at Manhattan Beach Middle School. Kara is a very hard worker on and off the ice and improved her skating speed to win the Pacific District Championship's Fastest Skater in her heat in the 12U division this year. On the ice, she strives to do her best, not only for herself but also for her teammates. This year has been a huge growth year for Kara as she has stepped up into a more dominant defenseman's role and helped the LDs win the Pacific District Championship with her toughness in all three zones, including on offense, continuing that effort to a bronze medal at Nationals.

She looks forward to practices, clinics, lessons and of course games! Off the ice, her studies seem to keep her busy most of the time. Summers are mostly spent at the beach working with the little kids at a local surf camp and when time permits, Kara will try to catch a few waves herself. Kara hopes to play college hockey at either Yale, University of Minnesota or Boston College.

Kateri McClellan - Kateri was given a new pair of figure skates for her 5th birthday; she refused to put them on. She tried on her brother Robbie's hockey skates and the rest is history…this is Kateri's third season as a Lady Duck. She has learned a great deal about hockey, sportsmanship and friendship as a member of the Lady Ducks. She is a 5th grade student at St. John Fisher School in Palos Verdes. Kateri is a good student; her favorite subjects are English and math. Kateri is her class representative for student council. She is a member of her school choir and track team. Last month Kateri was recognized and presented with a plaque from her school for her accomplishments in hockey.

In her spare time Kateri enjoys playing with her friends, roller-skating, watching movies and playing with her dog Xena. Her favorite colors are blue and green. And she loves ice cream and pizza. Kateri was one of two 10U players this year who stepped up into the 12s to gain experience and was part of the Pacific District Championship team this year (and more recently the Bronze Medal at Nationals!). Kateri is a solid, offensive defensemen and hopes to one day to play hockey in college.

Kamryn Kennedy - Karmyn is a first year Lady Duck and is following in her big brother (Jackson, Jr. Duck) and big sister's (Mackenzie, LD 12s) footsteps as a DUCK. Kamryn, who once used her tremendous energy to "explore" the confines of Anaheim ICE, is now putting her energy into her skating and skills on the ice! Kami is learning new skills every week and is looking forward to her goal scoring future!

When not on the ice (or in Coach Kathy's sight) Kami enjoys icees and salt & vinegar potato chips. If there aren't any Salt & vinegar she will settle for cool ranch Dorito's :o)
Congratulations, Kami.

16U
Megan Meyers

Megan Myers - Megan is in her 2nd year with the Lady Ducks and as a junior at Arbor View High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, she is one of the 3 LD’s to drive down to Anaheim every weekend for practices and games. She is the Junior Class Vice President and an anchor for AVTV the schools news station. Besides playing hockey, she plays JV basketball, and loves to hang out with the family in her spare time. Megan is Capitan of the 16U team this year and is proud of not only what her small team has accomplished, but how they bonded, and became better friends then before.

On the ice Megan’s hard work, passing, and toe-dragging maneuvers, gets her to the net scoring big points for her team. Megan participated in the 2008 USAHockey National Development Camp and she is hoping to make it again this year. Megan’s goals consist of playing college hockey, with hopes of making the Olympic team and majoring in sports medicine in college. Megan’s favorite player is Ryan Getzlaf of The Anaheim Ducks.

Dylanne Crugnale - This 4-time USAHockey Nationals Medalist for the Lady Ducks (1 Gold, 3 Bronze), Dylanne has been a core playmaker and special teams player for the club since the beginning. Dylanne, an elite academician and athlete has demonstrated her ability with A's in the classroom and G's and A's on the ice!! Dylanne is known for her dry sense of humor, occasional sarcasm and although the District and Nationals announcers have never seemed to say her name correctly, she keeps giving them opportunities by burying pucks, dishing off great passes and occasionally sitting in the sin bin :0).

Dylanne was dominant during the MLK Invitiational Tournament in San Jose, leading ALL 14s scorers for the tournament including a 4 point effort in the Final, helping her team to an 8-0 Championship. Dylanne followed that up with another great performance at the Pacific District tournament in Fairbanks, AK, once again leading her team to the Championship. Congratulations Dyl on another great year!

Nina Rodgers - This is Nina's first tournament season with the Lady Ducks. She thinks it's a blast playing with this great team and loves the friends she has made here. Nina started playing hockey at 5 in Minnesota on outdoor and indoor ice. Her family moved to California 3 years ago where she continued to play hockey in Anaheim with BCL. Her favorite subject in school is math and she plays drums in her school band. Her favorite color is green, and she loves pickle chips, which are harder to find in California. When she's not playing hockey, she likes swimming, basketball, dodgeball, and dirt biking. She hopes to play college hockey at the University of Minnesota, and to play in the Olympics.

Nicole Dunbar - Nicole has been a rink rat since 2 weeks old, attending her older brother's hockey games (Doug 20, Derek 17) so it's no surprise that her first spoken word was 'HOCKEY'. After starting 'baby blades' skating classes at age 2, Nicole began playing team roller hockey when she was 3 years old and made an easy transition to ice hockey by age 5. Nicole has been playing travel ice hockey with boy's teams since her Mite days as a Jr. Duck and in 2008-09 started playing full time for the Lady Ducks. A highlight of this past Lady Duck season was when she notched 6 goals and an assist in one game and she scored 2 of the 4 goals during the championship game at the MLK Tournament. Nicole looks forward with much anticipation to playing 12U next season and has big aspirations to one day play for the Harvard Crimson Women's ice hockey team and to being the first female NHL winger and in the off season being a veterinarian.

Nicole is currently a fifth grader at Wagon Wheel Elementary in Trabuco Canyon and loves math, writing and reading. She also loves drawing animals and creating team posters for all of her teams. Her favorite carbo load food is garlic bread! Her I-Pod is loaded with tunes from Carolina Liar, The Fray and Airborne Toxic Event , but her go to pre-game psych up song has to be Aerosmith's Dream On from her favorite movie 'Miracle' . For "Hockey Weekend Across America" in February 2009 Nicole organized "Hockey Day" at her school and encouraged her fellow school mates to wear their favorite hockey jerseys to school. While hockey is her favorite sport, Nicole has her very own sporting goods store in her family garage! Her new found love is lacrosse, but she also is competitive on the soccer and softball fields (in what other position than catcher for a hockey player?) and when time and patience permits, on the golf course.

Esther Oh - Esther is playing her first year with the Lady Ducks and is a first year ice hockey player. Coach Caroline says that she's learning very quickly and her hard work is paying off. Esther plays forward and works hard to improve breaking the puck out, staying onside and going to the hard to the net for rebounds. She has fun playing on the Lady Ducks and wants to be a great hockey player someday.

16U
Alison Pankowski

Alison Pankowski - Alison is a sophomore honor student at Santa Margarita Catholic HS with her head buried in AP World History,Geometry and Chemistry. She's taken to a new interest in photography. She aspires to be a dominant defenseman in the Ivy League on her way to a career in the sciences, perhaps medicine. Ali is a captain of the 16U team this year and is the most proud of how her team has rallied together despite being short of skaters to become a very dangerous team to play against. She loves the friendships this team has developed.
She would like to spend some time on the ice with Chris Pronger and see once and for all, who has the harder slap shot. In her spare time she likes to compare notes with Coach Louise on the latest episode of The Office. Congratulations, Ali on showing great leadership, playing great and working toward your future goals.

Lauren Kilroy - Lauren is in her 3rd year with the LDs. She started out playing roller hockey at age 8 and transitioned to ice two years later. Her favorite hockey players are Alexander Ovechkin and Martin St. Louis--from whom she took her hockey number-"26". Even though she plays defense, she loves to watch NHL shoot outs to get some new moves. Lauren has competed with her LD teammates at 2 National Championships, winning a Gold and Bronze medal in 2007 and 2008.
Lauren is a freshman honor student at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, where she is also a member of the track & field team. Lauren hopes to play college hockey and is currently wanting to attend Ohio State. She would also like to play on the US Women's Olympic team.

Hannah England - Hannah is a 2nd year Lady Duck is Co-Captain of her team. In January, Hannah led all scorers in the MLK Invitational Championship in San Jose with 25 points and has been a scoring powerhouse for the team this year. Known for her stick handling and amazing dekes, Hannah has worked hard this year toward developing her play-making, passing and powerplay experience.
Hannah makes one of the long drives to Anaheim every week for practices and games in addition to lessons and stick time training. She hopes to play college hockey in about 6 years :0) and will represent the Lady Ducks well. Congratulations Hannah!

Cami Sullivan - Cami (nicknamed "The Enforcer" by her Lady Duck big sisters) chose to wear hockey skates instead of figure skates at the age of 4. Starting out in an in-house program, she found her way to the Lady Ducks through the mom of her fellow teammate and friend, Kateri McClellan. Cami practiced with the 10U LD's in the spring of 2007, and joined the team at the start of the new season. Since then, she hasn't stopped talking! Coach Vicky describes Cam as the most improved players in our Lady Ducks development program and we look forward to seeing her continue to "enforce" on the ice.

Cami loves to cook and her specialty is oatmeal pancakes. Right now, her favorite subjects in school are history and literature. When she is not studying or off to hockey practice, she loves to swim, ride her bike, wave board and play soccer. She also enjoys playing the piano. Cami is a young philanthropist and last year raised over $500 in pennies for a program called "Pennies for Peace". These pennies pay for helping to build schools and provide school supplies for children, especially girls, in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Cami hopes to someday play for a women's college hockey team.

Genevieve Lai - Inspired by Chanda Gunn of the U.S.A. Women's Hockey team, Genevieve decided in 2006 that ice hockey was the sport for her. Like Gunn, Genevieve has suffered from epilepsy most of her life. Although she was inspired in 2006, her parents made her wait a few years because of conflicts in scheduling. After her first 10-week, Learn-to-Skate course in April 2008, Genevieve wasted no time and began looking for opportunities to practice hockey skills. After working 2-3 times a week on skating and stick handling throughout the summer, she made her debut on the Lady Ducks 8U team in August and knew that she wanted more. She loves hockey and would happily be on the ice everyday if her parents would let her. In the 2008-2009 season, she also played on the Pasadena Maple Leafs Mite B travel team as well as the Rainbows In-House team. After playing both wings and center, she's decided that she likes playing defense the most, but she wouldn't mind trying goalie as well. She wears #20 because of Luc Robitaille, but her current favorite player is L.A. Kings defenseman Matt Greene.
When she's not on the ice, Genevieve loves singing, dancing, and reading. Her favorite book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and her favorite singers are Priscilla Ahn and Lenka. Her favorite movie is Inkheart. Genevieve is a vegan and loves all kinds of apples. She attends 3rd grade at Robert C. Fisler School in Fullerton and is part of the Laptops for Learning Program where she uses her MacBook everyday. An award-winning podcaster with the TechSavvyGirlz and the SoCal HockeyCast, she's interviewed authors Gary Soto and Joe Cepeda as well as Kings radio color commentator Daryl Evans.

16U
Katie Tong

Katie Tong - This is Katie's 6th year as a Lady Duck. Over the last 6 seasons, she has been at or near the top of her team in points, EVERY year. She started playing ice hockey a little over 5 years ago when she joined the Lady Ducks 12U and the BCL boys team, playing forward. Katie has been a member of two Bronze Medal National Championship Lady Duck teams, tying a teammate as the leading scorers in their division at last year's Nationals. Her dream is to play Division I hockey and make the US Women's National Team. Katie is a sophomore at Chino Hills High School taking honors classes while maintaining a 3.7 GPA.
In case you didn't know this, Katie also plays goalie for her high school varsity roller hockey team. Katie started playing roller hockey at the age of 5 and has won over 35 Top Goaltending awards at every major roller tournament she participated in, including Pacific Cup finals, Topcat, TOHRS Regional, NARCh Regional, NARCh Winternationals and NARCh Finals. She draws her hockey inspiration from her older brother, Danny, an all-star roller hockey defenseman in his playing days. Katie enjoys hanging out with her friends, going to the movies and playing with her dog, KC, a 110 pound Rottweiler, who will drag her around the floor trying to get the toy away from Katie. She enjoys watching old TV shows like Get Smart and listening to her favorite singer, Dean Martin. Man!! You are an "Old Soul" Katie!! Great job this season (as in all year's past!) and help your team earn another Pacific District Championship.

Morgan Braniff - Morgan, in her second season with the Lady Ducks, was part of the dominant, USAHockey National Championship Bronze medal winners at 14U, in West Chester, PA, helping the team to a 28-3 record vs. girls teams in 2007-08. Morgan has been playing ice hockey since age 9. She is the youngest of 5 and the only girl. Her brothers are Jackson (16), Dalton (18), Sam (21) and Malcolm (23). She is following in the footsteps of her brothers who all play hockey.
Morgan has a dog named Marley and a hamster named Sgt Dan. When not playing or watching hockey, Morgan likes to go to the movies. Another of her pastimes are watching the food network but she doesn't like to cook. Morgan attends Pacific Coast High School where she is in the 9th grade. Morgan shows her team spirit and energy on and off the ice; not only is she seen playing tough all over the ice, every shift, she is always praising her teammates and speaking up from the bench to root her team on. Keep up the good work Morgie!!

Justine Silva - Justine "Teenie" Silva is in her 5th year with the club and was the original net minder for the INAUGURAL 8U Lady Ducks team. Justine attends Gidley School in El Monte, where she has a 3.6 gpa and is a member of the Science Olympiad Team, Safe School Ambassador program and the school band where she plays the flute. Justine's favorite subjects are literature, science, PE, and home economics and her favorite color is Orange (wonder why??). She likes to play volleyball, basketball and go bowling and is known to order Pizza ahead of anything else, if given the choise.
In December, at the prestigious Connecticut Polar Bear Tournament Justine back stopped the 12U team to an outstanding Semi-final showing (losing 2-1 in OT) by shutting out opponents through the entire round robin, going 4-0!! All in all, Teenie went 14 2/3 periods without allowing a goal until late in the semifinal, Simply AMAZING!!

Danielle Marquez - This is Danielle's first season on the Lady Ducks 10U team. She loves all of the friends she has made and the fun they have together. Danielle comes to the Lady Ducks after being spotted in the mite house league at Anaheim ICE last season. A natural athlete, Dani works hard for her team and is learning the finer points of goaltending quickly. She is also an amazing teammate! When recently given the "player of the Game" award from coach Vicky, for possibly her strongest effort in net for the 10s thus far, Dani made her way to find another teammate... one who had scored her first goal... and determined the Award should go to that player. Wow!!
When she is not on the ice, Danielle is on 4th grade honor roll at Burcham K-8 School in Long Beach, CA. She enjoys reading, playing violin in the Burcham String Orchestra, playing kick ball and building up her calluses on the monkey bars at school. Congrats to you Danielle!

Daniella Dror - Daniella is eight years old and in third grade at Tarbut V'Torah in Irvine. She is currently earning straight A's and loves to learn. Daniella just started this season, her first game ever on ice being the Lady Ducks Fall Classic. She's been hooked since. Daniella is quickly improving on the ice and may prove to be the team's goal-scoring powerhouse. She's been playing roller hockey for a year and a half and was asked to be on the Irvine Anarchy club team a year ago. At their last tournament in December, they won gold in their division and Daniella received the best defenseman. She is the only girl on their team.
She also plays for the Slammers 9U club soccer team. At the last tournament, there were eight teams from southern California, at which they took 3rd place. She also enjoys playing the piano, reading books, skiing downhill, and playing Wii. Her favorite food is mango. She lives in Corona Del Mar with her brother, Jared, 12, (who plays on both a Squirt and Peewee club roller hockey team), her dad and her mom. Great job, Sunshine!!! And GO LADY DUCKS!!!

16U
Krista Manzanares

Krista Manzanares - Krista has been a proud member of the Lady Ducks since she was 10 years old. She was the goalie on the 2005 12U Pacific District Championship team, which began a great winning tradition for the LD organization. Her goal this season is to once again play in the USA Hockey Girls’ National Championships. She looks forward to playing hockey for a Division I or III college, and is working hard to make that a reality. She is a sophomore at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, where she maintains a 4.27 GPA and enjoys playing lacrosse. After being asked by her coach to try goalie this year, she has been attending clinics and camps to better her skills. She has quickly come to love the position and hopes to be starting on the Varsity team this season. When not playing sports or doing homework, she enjoys boating with her family on Lake Havasu, going to the beach, and listening to music. She lives in Rancho Santa Margarita with her 13 year old brother Scott, dog Lucy, and her Mom and Dad. Congratulations Krista!

Lauren Hume - Lauren is in her first season with the Lady Ducks after moving down to Southern California from NorCal and the Lady Sharks program. Lauren is the oldest of 5 kids - sisters are Emma (12), Katie (7) and Gracie (1) and brother John (11). When she is at home, she also has a dog, a cat, a hamster, a tortoise and a fish (we have a full house when everyone's around!) Lauren lives in Tustin during the school year with her grandmother to play on the Lady Ducks. She is in 8th grade at Pioneer Middle School and earned a 3.5 grade point average last quarter, which was her best so far.
When Lauren isn't playing hockey, she likes to cook, or read or play Rock Band. She also likes to skateboard and swim and hang out with friends. Lauren is afraid of scary movies and rollercoasters, reserving all of her fearlessness for the ice. She loves ice hockey, she never wants to miss a practice and has been known to disappear Friday afternoon of tournament weekends, watch every single game that she isn't playing in, and come home Sunday night, looking for a hockey game on TV.

Michaela Kyte - Michaela is currently in her 4th year with the Lady Ducks. She makes up one of the 11 1996 birth year players on the 12u squad, 6 of whom have been together since coming out of mite in house. She has two brothers (Tyler age 14 and Tanner age 9 months) and a sister (Allie age 15). Michaela is currently in the 6th grade and attends Yorba Linda Middle School where she enjoys social studies and language arts. With one of those LATE hockey birthdays, Michaela turns 12 in December, but is playing big this season, getting stronger and stronger at her center position every game.
When she is not playing hockey, Michaela enjoys going to the beach, the movies, swimming, and hanging around with her friends. After going to Nationals at the 12U level last year and not coming home with a medal, she hopes that this will be the year for the 12U team to make a good showing and come home with something shiny (maybe even GOLD) this year.She also hopes to make the USA Women's National team one day and maybe play in the Olympics. She would also like to play college hockey. Keep up the good effort!

Tia Stoddard - Tia, 10 years old, is in her second season with the Lady ducks. She is the youngest of five children: sisters - Cailyn (15), Jo Ann (18), Cheryl-Lei (20) and brother - John (21) who she takes after when it comes to hockey. She is a 5th grader at Murdock Elementary in Spring Valley (SD County). Her favorite subjects are Art, PE and Science. Besides having fun with her Lady Ducks teammates, her spare time involves drawing, playing outside with her friends, skate boarding, and shooting pucks and hoops. At five, she was introduced to developmental hockey which opened the doorway to her love of hockey.
Tia's first association with the Lady Ducks was when the Lady Ducks 12U team won Nationals. Tia saw their picture in the USA Hockey magazine and had asked if she could play on a team like this. Making a phone call to a friend of mine whose son played for the Anaheim Jr. Ducks lead me in contact with Coach Kathy. She invited Tia to come to some “drop in” practices which after several practices, by surprise; she was invited by Coach Vicky to play with the Lady Ducks at the Connecticut Polar Bears Ice Hockey Tournament. She joins the Lady Ducks again this season as a strong forward and also as an Assistant Captain.

Cortney Reyes - Cortney is in 3rd grade at Wickman Elementary School in Chino Hills, where she earned straight A’s for her 1st trimester. She has an older brother (18), an older sister who plays on the Lady Ducks 12U team (11) and a twin sister (8). Cortney enjoys dancing and reading in her spare time. She is the fashion expert in her house; even her older sister asks for an opinion of her wardrobe. She was asked to play on the 8U Tournament Team that Coach Kathy put together to play in San Jose last January and has been really enjoying herself playing on that tournament team as well as the 8U in-house team. She played softball for a season, but decided she liked playing hockey better.

16U
Amanda Forsyth

Amanda Forsyth - Amanda is a junior at Ayala High School in Chino Hills. She is on the swim team and has played on the water polo team. She works hard to keep good grades. She has one sister, Katie, who is on a competitive cheer team. She has four brothers, Jonathan, Nicholas, Michael, and Lucas who all play competitive ice hockey. Amanda has dedicated her hockey to her brother Michael that passed away when he was 14. She pushes herself hard to make her brother Michael and her grandfather (Poppi) proud of her. She hopes to play college hockey and live Michael's dream.
Amanda has been playing ice hockey on travel teams for eight years.  This is her third year with the Lady Ducks. She enjoys running, swimming, wake boarding, camping, fishing, shooting her shotgun and riding horses all with her friends and family. Her favorite actor is Will Ferrell and her favorite movie is "Step Brothers". She loves to quote movies and make her friends laugh. Amanda has two dogs, Shadow, a Yellow Lab and her favorite is Radar, a big German Shepard.

Allison Girard - Allison "Allie" Girard is a freshman at Marina High School in Huntington Beach. Allie is from Folsom, CA just outside of Sacramento. She made a big decision to move away from home and follow her dream to win a National Championship. Allie "Gi Gi" has stepped into her role nicely with the LDs as a power forward and also plays on a power play unit. Originally from Southern California, her hockey career started with the Beach City Lightning as a mite and squirt. Then the family moved to Northern CA and she played for the Capital Thunder, California Gold Rush and the San Jose Lady Sharks. Allie has an older brother, Kenny who is a senior and will attend college next fall in Santa Barbara. Kenny is a former Beach City Lightning alumni. Allie's Mom "Donna" and Dad "Stuart" miss her terribly, as Allie lives with the Kilroy family during the school year, but they are supporters of this opportunity to play with the best 14U girls in the west coast. Allie's other interests include; wakeboarding, taking care of her dog and playing golf. She is a member of her high school varsity golf team.

Juliana Ferrentino - Juliana ("Jules") was first recruited by Coach Kathy when she was five years old and joined the program when she was nine. She is a 3rd Year Lady Duck. Last year, she was Assistant Captain of the 10U team and this year she is proud to be one of only five 11-year old ladies to make this year's mighty 12U team. Jules is working hard every day to improve and help her team to reach Nationals.
Juliana is a straight-A sixth grader at Villa Park Elementary School. When she is not on the ice, she enjoys spending time with her friends, her little sister (isabella), and her big brother (Anthony). Jules really enjoys music. In fact, every year she and her friends compete in her school's annual lip sync contest - just don't ask her to really sing. Juliana is also an Indian princess in the mighty Shawnee Tribe. Shopping, sewing, and baking are also big on her activity list. Jules loves to snowboard, swim, hike, and snorkel. She enjoys traveling and exploring different places - especially Hawaii. Her favorite T.V. show is "Project Runway" and her favorite movies are "27 Dresses" and "Iron Man".

Lilli Marchant - Lilli is a very versatile player for the 10U Lady Ducks this season, playing center and defense. She has been with the program since her family moved here in 2006-2007 season and has worked hard to become a solid center and improve her shooting skills. Lilli loves hockey but enjoys many sports and is a very active child. She plays Club Soccer for the Tustin United GU11 team at the Silver Elite Level. This year she made the Volleyball team for her school, Peters Canyon Elementary. They won the championship!! Now she will prepare for Softball starting in January.
On her down time Lilli loves to downhill ski, snowboard and hang with her brother, Timmy, and her sister and teammate, Ashley (LD 8U and 10U). She enjoys listening to music and making jewelry, she says it is relaxing. Lilli says her favorite of all she does is playing hockey and having FUN with her LD teammates. Great work!!

Lindsay Reyes - Lindsay is in 3rd grade at Wickman Elementary School in Chino Hills, where she earned all A's and one B for her 1st trimester. She has an older brother (18), an older sister who plays on the Lady Ducks 12U team (11) and a twin sister (8). She enjoys dancing and singing (she really likes singing in the shower). She started playing ice hockey when Coach Kathy asked her to play on the 8U Tournament Team put together to play in San Jose last January. She is really enjoying playing on the tournament team as well as the in-house team. She also played softball for a season, but enjoys hockey more.

16U
Rachel Nguyen

Rachel Nguyen - The Lady Ducks would like to welcome Rachel to the program! Rachel is beginning her first season as a Lady Duck. She began playing roller hockey as a skater, but quickly made the transition to goaltender 8 years ago and has never looked back. Aside from hockey, Rachel maintains strong academics while balancing a heavy course load, lacrosse, and extracurricular activities such as volunteer work. The work that she is most proud of is her affiliation with the Friendship Circle program, an organization aimed at improving the lives of special needs children through social interaction. Her favorite subjects are History and English, and can be found on the beach reading when the weather permits.

Rachel has already demonstrated to her teammates and coaches her strong work ethic, team-oriented attitude and her positive outlook! Most importantly, she shares a deep love for the sport of hockey with her teammates, and is enthusiastic about having a great season. Great start to the year, Rachel!

Makenna Farole - McKenna begins her third year of full time AAA Girls travel hockey. She began as an in house/part time Lady Duck. Despite being a duck, her favorite team is the LA Kings :). McKenna began her hockey experience 6 years ago with a small core of 93-95 Lady Ducks in Training, in the Mite in house program at then, Disney ICE. A few years later with some pre-travel experience under her belt she made the LD 12's in 2006/07. Together with a fabulous group went on to win The USA Hockey National Championship. Last spring she was chosen to attend the USA Hockey National development camp in Rochester, New York. In New York she met, dormed with and played on Team USA "Gold" along side the top birth year 1994 girls selected from all over the US. In 2008/09 McKenna looks to help lead the girls to another successful year. McKenna begins her Freshman year in High School at Aliso Niguel High after her 3 years of Middle School where she was selected to the Principal's Honor Roll 3 times. Her favorite food is Fruit Smoothies. Her favorite bands are No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, Queen and Journey. She enjoys spending time with her sister (Kendra-Lady Ducks 10u) along with her Hockey teammates and her school friends when her very busy School and Hockey schedule allows. Great effort in September, Kenna!

Kayla Nielsen - Kayla is a rookie Lady Duck this season coming over from 2 years on ice at Aliso Viejo. She started roller at the age of 5 and has other atheltic endeavors on her resume, including NJB basketball. Kayla is a 7th grader at Los Alisos Middle School and as an honor roll student she would like to work helping animals when she grows up. When Kayla is not Rockin out to Simple Plan (her fav band) she spends time with local friends and hockey teammates. Kayla seems quiet but is a fierce competitor and hopes to help the Lady Ducks 12s go back to National Championships this year in Rochester, NY.

Katherine Hughes - Katherine is in the 5th grade at Paradise Canyon School in La Canada-Flintridge. She started skating at the age of four, and played on an inhouse team at five. This is Katherine's fifth year of travel hockey. While Katherine loves hockey she also enjoys watching football. She likes to cheer on the New England Patriots and the Fighting Illini! It is great to see Katherine so involved in hockey and she is captain of her boys Squirt A team while managing to play with the LD 10s and 12s when her schedule allows. Katherine played 3 of their 5 games for the 10s at the September LD tournament, leading all scorers in points for the tournament. Katherine loves math, science and penguins. Someday she hopes to be an astronaut and to be the first person to shoot a slapshot off the face of Mars. Katherine also loves penguins and would like to travel to Antarctica to study them! Good luck the rest of the season.

Ashley Marchant - Ashley is in her 2nd year on the Lady Ducks 8U team and plays EVERY position including goalie for the team. Ashley is co-captain of the 8U Lady Ducks this season and is working hard to improve her shooting (as a player) and her butterfly (as a goalie). She was a stand out in the Lady Ducks Fall classic by playing Forward, Defense and goalie in the 8U division and is also rostered UP a year and is playing on the 10U team. Congratulations, Ash!