Chip Stone Junior Review

[DoktorFunk 810]

 

When Chip Stone heard his name being called to be drafted by the Seattle Bears at 16th overall, he could hardly believe it. A franchise that he had considered his second favorite and that contained his favorite players had drafted him, but how did he get here?

 

Coming from an ice-hockey family, Chip grew up on skates. His parents pushed him hard to skate everyday from the time he was three. He had a competitive nature, but loved more spending time with his friends and hanging out with teammates. Winning a handful of silver and bronze medals was fine for him as long as he was having fun. That all changed when he started High School. His hometown, Fairfax, VA, had a very competitive High School hockey team. Enrolling at Ludwig Von Butterstein Memorial Highschool, he knew, would be challenging because of the expectations he would have to meet.

 

He met them. Making the Varsity team in his freshman year, Stone put in the work to allow The Von Butterstein Butter Knights to win four consecutive championships at the high school level. It was at this point that he declared for the VHLM draft. He was drafted 37th overall by the Ottawa Lynx. Stone had a decent season with the Lynx, notching 41 points in 72 games played. But Stone was distracted. He wasn't playing his best game. His father had been laid off from his longtime job, and the family was struggling to meet ends meet. Stone had to take a job as a E-Sports chair cleaner just to help the family pay his bills.

 

This hard, grueling labor has instilled in Chip something that wasn't there before: grit. He now knows the value of a hard days work and he knows there are no shortcuts to the top. He redoubled his efforts at exercising. He studied more tape and spent every spare moment on the ice. He wanted to be ready for the next season. But little did he know, that was about to change. Stone was drafted by the Seattle Bears. This only made him more ready to work hard. The celebrity of having their son drafted by a prestigious franchise like Seattle has led the Stones to having paying jobs again, which is allowing Chip to focus on what he wants to be: the future captain of the Seattle Bears. In Chip's own words: "No shortcuts and no more bullshit."