Catching Up with Olympic Gold Medalist Rebecca Johnston
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The following article featuring Cornell forward Rebecca Johnston appeared in the March 4 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun.
By Jasmine Marcus
Instead of 10 Questions this week, Sun Assistant Managing
Editor Jasmine Marcus '10 conducted a slightly more serious
interview with Rebecca Johnston '12, who won the gold medal with
the Canadian hockey team at the Winter Olympics last week.
Sun: To start off, can you tell me a little bit about how you started playing hockey?
Rebecca Johnston: I started when I was about four years old in Ontario. I had five brothers and sisters, so we all basically played growing up. I was on a guys team and my dad was the coach. He coached me for a lot of those years. And then I started playing at Cornell.
Sun: How did you end up at Cornell? Was hockey a motivating factor in choosing a college?
R.J.: Yeah, for sure. That was definitely one of the many things I looked into in a school. My oldest sister went to Harvard, and then my [next] oldest sister went to Cornell, so I kind of was looking between those two schools because I was familiar with them, and I knew I wanted to go to an Ivy League school. And I just thought that Cornell suited me better and I really enjoyed my visit there, and the coach and the hockey program are pretty amazing there, as you can see this year with how well we're doing. Yeah, so I'm really glad I chose Cornell.
Complete article can be accessed via the Sun Web site by clicking here.
