Jason Munz/Hattiesburg American
Paxton Schrimsher’s first love was hockey.
Barely old enough to walk, the Southern Miss sophomore linebacker attended a Lake Charles Ice Pirates hockey game and was hooked immediately.
“When he first started walking, he was all over the place,” said Jenny Creasy, Schrimsher’s mother. “We would go to his older brother’s T-ball games and I’d end up spending the whole game under the bleachers trying to keep up with Paxton.”
So when the family received free tickets to the Western Professional Hockey League game, mom was not exactly looking forward to it.