When Ann-Sophie Bettez was named to her first senior national team, the first people she told were her parents.
“They’ve been such great supporters of my entire career,” Bettez said. “I have everything to give back to them, for paying for us — me and my brother — playing hockey, all the travel.... Living in a small town, my parents had to drive two and a half hours to get to one game so they are the most important people to give back to and they’ve helped me so it’s just a matter of saying thank you.”
The road Bettez took from star at Dawson College and then McGill University to the Team Canada roster for the three-game Canada-USA Rivalry Series was so long and winding that it would take much more than two and a half hours.