Caitlyn Catowize - Rookie Experience

[CrazyCaityCat 65]

What do you expect in your first season with the Dragons? That was what that reporter had asked her. It was only her second day since she’d been drafted and she’d had a big press conference. The reporter had asked her that question and she’d mumbled something about hoping she’d do well and not letting her teammates down. The truth is though she didn’t know what to say when she’d been asked. She’d been so focused on the drama of her mother and the draft that she had no thoughts of what her first season in the VHL was going to bring. She supposed what she’d said was true insofar as it went. She did want to do well, and she did not want to let down her teammates. That said, that was not all she wanted from her rookie season, as she thought more about the question. She wanted so much to improve. She was sure that she’d not get as many minutes in the coming season as she was getting in the VHLM, and she was going to be facing the very best players in the world, people who’d been playing in the league when she was a toddler, people who’d been forged by the fires of competition. That shouldn’t stop her from getting better though. She wanted to develop her wrist shot, she wanted to get faster than she’d ever been before, she wanted to get even better defensively.

 

Her biggest worries were all off the ice. She was so worried that it was all going to go to waste because of whatever her debtors or her mother had planned for her. She had no idea what to expect from these forces of nature in her life. They could ask her to do something that would ruin her life and what choice would she really have? At least one of those groups would possibly be willing to kill her if she didn’t do as she was told, and the other? Who knows how her mother might make her life miserable.

 

Now wasn’t the time to dwell on that though. Now was time to focus on the things she actually could control. She needed to get ready to move from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. Then she needed to find the head trainer and get to work. She had big plans for her career and if she was going to find a way to make those plans a reality then she was going to have to train harder than she’d ever trained before.

 

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