A car trip from Branchburg, a township in Somerset County New Jersey, to Brooklyn will take you about an hour and fifteen minutes. That is the distance between where Gabie Figueroa of the New York Riveters grew up and where she will be one of the first women in North America to be paid for playing professional hockey.
Gabie Figueroa had a standout career playing on the blue line for the Tiger Lilies. She was a four-time ECAC All-Academic team selectee and co-captained her team in her senior year at Princeton, a Division I hockey school.