Eva Erickson is a first-year PHYS. She hails from Eagan, Minnesota. Over the next four years, she plans to study the motion of animals to help the military build advanced technology. She is also the first ever woman to make Tech’s hockey team.
That often comes as a surprise to her classmates. “Whenever I’m meeting people, everyone’s always like, ‘oh, what sorority are you in?’ I’m like, ‘actually, I’m on the men’s hockey team.’” The shock, she says, is twofold; people are not only surprised that Tech has a hockey team but also that a girl would want to play hockey, a sport whose most well-known stars worldwide are generally men.