A teenaged Nicole Poole would finish high school soccer practice in Ithaca, N.Y., around 4:30 p.m., and her parents would be waiting in the car with something important – dinner — for the drive, about an hour and a half away, to Fulton for hockey practice.
Often, they wouldn’t get back home until 10 or 10:30 p.m.
“And then I’d do it all over again the next day,” she said, chuckling.
Long before Nicole married Kings forward Dustin Brown and long before she became a hockey mom to four children – Jake, Mason, Cooper, and Mackenzie – she played defense on the ice and was an accomplished two-sport star. If there were more hours in the day, Nicole probably would have crushed it at the high school and collegiate level in tennis, which she plays as an adult.
