#ItsMoreThanJustClubHockey Player Profile: Jessie Rushing
My fourth installment of #ItsMoreThanJustClubHockey Player Profiles with W. ACHA forward Jessie Rushing!
Name: Jessie Rushing
Team: WACHA D1
Number: 12
Position: Right Wing
Righty or Lefty: Righty
How long have you played hockey? I've played hockey for 9 years
What made you want to play hockey? One of my best friends back home played and his mom owned the local CHL team, now part of the SPHL.
What is the highest level of hockey you’ve played (before college)? I played A travel hockey with boys and AAA with girls.
Favorite hockey memory? My favorite hockey memory would have to be going to the Semi-finals in Nationals last year.
Favorite hockey player? Of course the one and only TJ Oshie
Where did you play before coming to Adrian? I played for the St. Louis Lady Blues
Why did you choose Adrian? Kind of a weird story, but I took a year off of hockey after graduating high school and took a soccer scholarship. It just wasn't even close to the same thing. Even though I wasn't playing hockey the Adrian coach at the time never gave up on trying to get me back on the ice. So I started back up, came and toured campus, fell in love with it and the rest is history.
Favorite memory of college hockey so far? Definitely a tie between scoring to defeat Robert Morris two years ago and beating Miami this year.
Any superstitions or things you do for luck (ie: putting right side of gear on first, writing quotes, verses, etc. on your stick, taping your stick a certain color...)? I'm very superstitious and won't go through my whole routine, but a little bit is during off ice and on ice warmups I'm always in a certain order in lines and before the game I always go sit in the stands in a certain spot.
To quote Jack O’Callahan in Miracle, “Why’d yah wanna play college hockey?”: I wanted to play hockey because it never gets old to hear people say "There's hockey in Mississippi?!"
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