A different path: This CT hockey player opting for turf, not ice, in college

A different path: This CT hockey player opting for turf, not ice, in college

Deirdre McKiernan was two months old the first time she was wheeled by her mom into an ice hockey rink in a double stroller with her older sister Kate. Older brother Patrick and sister Mary both played hockey, following their father Brendan, who played the sport at Assumption. Naturally, Deirdre began to play when she was 3. Youth hockey, club hockey, knee hockey in the McKiernans’ basement with her brothers and sisters, H-O-R-S-E on the net in …