please copy and paste and watch this Canada Games interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URy6DRu1vx0
As a proud mother of a very determined no-nonsense daughter I am reaching out for support to fund Bobbi her Academic and NCAA hockey goals.
A Dutch/Canadian girl shoots for the stars and finds them in the back of a hockey net! Bobbi Strople was born in Nijmegen, Holland and moved to Nova Scotia, Canada when she was 6 years old. She started her hockey career lying on the ice crying at 4 years old! Now she cries when she can’t be on the ice. At 14 years old she was approached by 5 different prep schools and chose to move away from home to Rockland, Ontario to CIH Academy. Now in her 4th and final year and 2nd year as Captain of her schools Girls U19 team she has reached goals she has been striving for since she was 12.
To play for team Nova Scotia, this year it also brings the honor of playing in the Canada Games.
To play for Elmira College NCAA who scouted Bobbi for almost a year and for which she won scholarships!
It’s been a rough year for Bobbi. Changes in her home life and a medical condition that had gone undiagnosed her whole life. On the ice during the Team Nova Scotia tryouts, Bobbi came to the bench and passed out. Sent immediately to Team NS doctors and within minutes of checking her they had her sent to emergency. Something was wrong with her heart. A birth defect that had gone unnoticed, and had she not been such a strong athlete pushing her body to extremes it may never have been diagnosed. Bobbi underwent an 8 hour surgery to repair her heart. Not to be held down, Bobbi was back on the ice in 4 days and back at Team NS tryouts 2 days after that.
Bobbi got the call from her Mother, Lizeth , that she had made Team NS U 17 and would be representing her Province in the 2015 Canada Games in Prince George, British Columbia. A dream come true, and a goal she had been working toward for so long.
Due to the family changes over the past 12 months, Lizeth is unable to fund the tuition all by herself for Bobbi her next goal:
attending Elmira College NY,
Bobbi got scouted and awarded with the Mark Twain scholarship and additional funding from Elmira with a total of US 24.500 which would leave the nett costs for 2015/2016 academic year US dollar 28.500, plus travel expenses, cost of living etc.
Bobbi already secured herself of a payed job at Elmira college to contribute.
Bobbi changed my life over the past 12 months, she showed me how to be strong, determined and never give up no matter how hard life can hit you! She is an true inspiration! Not only to me but she made impact on lots of others including Ron MacLean of Hockey Night in Canada who mentioned Bobbi during broadcasting as his highlight of the night/Canada games.
Elmira College is an outstanding academic institution and can give Bobbi an amazing academic education in combination with playing NCAA hockey, which will give Bobbi a great opportunity for the rest of her life.
I have a great job and my employer lets me pick up all the overtime I am legally allowed however I cannot do this all by myself and therefore I reach out for help in the costs. I am also open to any ideas and or suggestions of supporters that may have resources I might need for this cause.
Please paste and copy the read the newspaper article
http://thechronicleherald.ca/sports/1269966-bob...