Zoe Millian couldn’t envision hanging up her skates.
The 17-year-old, Grade 12 student at Saint Michael Catholic High School had planned to give up hockey and concentrate on her studies as she entered her post-secondary studies next year, but after playing for Team France at the IIHF U18 World Championships in Budapest earlier this year, she began to have second thoughts.
“I always thought that after this year it was going to be over and I had to choose between my career and hockey obviously,” she said. “When I was at the world championships my parents were here and they talked with each other and they realized that hockey was so important for me. So then they just convinced me that I should keep playing and I didn’t want to stop anyway.
“It just worked out very good.”
Millian will suit up next year for the Drummondville Voltigeurs, a Division 2 team that plays in Quebec’s CEGEP (General and professional teaching college) collegiate loop, a publicly funded system exclusive to Quebec’s provincial education system.