On the Ice (Stick Side, #1)

by Amy Aislin

Mitch was fully aware that the latter steps were all contingent on Step One. If he lost his scholarship, he wouldn’t be able to afford GH and he’d have to drop out, which would have a ripple effect on his dreams (AKA Steps Two through Five), knocking them over like dominoes. Step Four, however, was why he was attending this evening’s optional lecture-slash-panel-discussion: Chris Blair. But Chris Blair wasn’t here to discuss sports science and rehabilitation, which was a bitter letdown. It wasn’t that Mitch didn’t like looking and listening to Dean, but he wasn’t the reason he’d come tonight. He didn’t care about injury rehabilitation from the perspective of a patient. He needed to know what courses he should take, what post-grad certificates he should consider, who he should talk to, or even shadow, in order to get to the same kind of position Chris Blair currently held. Because that was what Mitch wanted once his career in hockey was over. Mitch had a list of questions for Chris Blair as long as his arm and he didn’t think Dean—who’d majored in creative writing, if Mitch remembered correctly—would be able to answer them. Hockey, like most sports, was a young person’s game. However, when Mitch graduated with a Bachelor of Science with a speciality in kinesiology, he’d be set to work with athletes, keeping him in the sport long after he’d retired from active play. Hockey had been part of his life ever since he could skate, and it would continue to be a part of it until he ...