Shema Khan's Essay I Was A Teenage Hijabi Hockey Player

In her essay "I was a Teenage Hijabi Hockey Player", Shema khan, a Muslim Hajabi women, shares her experience of hockey playing, with her co-workers. In addition to her experience she clarifies the difficulties faced by Muslim women who practice sports. She begins her story by saying that she grew up cheering the Montreal Canadian hockey team with her schoolmates, as well as playing street, driveway and table hockey, all of which instilled a strong passion of hockey in her. Shema moves on to discuss her experience playing ice hockey at the University of McGill. At the university she started playing intramural hockey with the women’s engineering team. She then tells her co-workers that at the University of Harvard in Boston, there was no hockey