This year Edina High School’s very own Lady Hornets will attempt another run at a state hockey title. Though last year’s season ended in heartbreak with a loss to Minnetonka in the state final, the team is looking forward to post-regular season play. Rebecca Sonnek tends the net for the team and has a positive outlook for the season.
Q: What are your goals for this hockey season?
A: My goals for this season are to improve individually and help the team improve, also to go to the state tournament and hopefully win it!
Q: What is your first hockey memory?
A: My first hockey memory is playing games on an outdoor rink with my mite team and always wanting to stay till it was dark.
Q: When did you know you wanted to play goalie?
A: I knew I wanted to play goalie when my mite team won a game 17 to 1 and I was in net, and to be honest i couldn’t really score much.
Q: What do you think about when you’re in net during a game?
A: When I’m in net i run different scenarios through my head and take it one puck at a time and reminding myself “I got this!” and only running confident thoughts through my head.
Q: How are you coaches this year?
A: My coaches this year are amazing and they always know how to make practice fun and know what to say to get us motivated for games.
Q: Does your team have a favorite pump up song? (If so, what is it, why, etc.)
A: Yes we do! Before the game everyone listens to “Girl On Fire” by Alicia Keys because it such a powerful song and we love to rap to Nicki Minaj. Then between periods we listen to “Jock Jams” to get fired up for the next period.
Q: What do you do to train in the off season?
A: In the off season i do lots of goalie training with PGD Goaltending along with Os on and off ice and 3V3 at the Velocity rink in Eden Prairie with lots of my current teammates.
Q: What is one fun fact about yourself?
A: I am a triplet.
Q: Why do people call you Boomer?
A: In 10U Coach Foust wanted everyone on our team to have a nickname and used to call me “Sonnek Boom” and eventually “Boomer” caught on.
