Margo Biestuzheva and her mother fled Ukraine when the war began and finally found a new home in Minnesota thanks to a welcoming hockey team.
The journey to Minnesota took the mother-daughter pair seven months, during which Margo maintained her favourite hobby of playing the piano.
Once settled in Minnesota, Margo saw a flyer for an ice hockey team and was immediately inspired to try something new since she couldn’t play hockey in Ukraine as it was considered a sport for boys.
However, Margo faced some obstacles getting started, because she and her mother had left Ukraine without important documents, like Margo’s birth certificate.
That’s where the leaders and other parents of the Minneapolis Storm Eight and Under Youth Hockey League stepped in.
Biestuzheva reached out to coach Drew Wood asking how her daughter could join the league.
Wood and other members of the league cut the red tape and got Margo on the team.
They also helped outfit Margo in head-to-toe new hockey gear.
The kindness kept coming when members of the team welcomed Biestuzheva and Rudyi, Margo’s father, to the hockey community.
For Margo, the best thing about hockey is the friends she’s made on the team and any time spent “skating and scoring goals.”
The hockey community in Minnesota is like a family to the Biestuzheva family. Biestuzheva said, “I love this community. Hockey community in Minnesota.”
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