Meredith Lang was a hockey enthusiast.
She liked the game well enough to play in high school but left it behind to pursue a track and field career that carried her to the 2004 U.S. Olympic trials.
Life rolled on. Hockey morphed into distant memory. Then, Lang had two daughters. And as tends to happen, those kids changed everything.
It started with Lang's then-6-year-old, Aubrey, announcing she wanted to play hockey. That request took Lang back to her own playing days as the only Black girl lacing up skates and unexpectedly ignited a passion that would change the course of several futures.