Simcoe’s Holly Vannetten Scores Spot on Mercyhurst University Blueline

Don’t Tell Simcoe’s Holly Vannetten There’s no such Thing as Love at First Sight.

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AS A HIGHLY SOUGHT-AFTER 17-YEAR-ONEY CREEK SABRES DEFENDER, VANNETTEN NEEDED LITTLE TIME AT MERCYHORST UNIRSITY in ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA to Know That’s that She’d Spend the Next Four Years.

“As soon as I Got to the School, There’s a big gate at the Entrance with all kinds of Flowers, It’s a very Beautiful Sight,” Vanned Recalled.

“I Toured Around and Talked to a Few Schools But when I Went to Mercyhurst, It Really Did Just Feel Like Home, It’s Nice and Close (To Norfolk County) and with the Coaches and Girls, it’s a family there.

Now in Her Seventh Season with Stoney Creek, Vannetten has accomplished just about Everthing A Young Player can, Including a Provincial and National Title in 2023. This Season, Vannetten posted 30 points (11 Goals, 19 Assists) in 42 Games Played, Helping Lead the Sabers to A Second Place In the Ontario Women’s Hockey League U-22 Elite League.

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Despite Her Accolades, and the Fact that 13 of Her Current Teammates have committed to play at the University Level, Vannetten Said Going to A Ncaa Division I School Still Seems Absurd.

“It really does Feel Surreal,” She Said. “You dream about it growing up as a kid, Always Wanting it and knowing it’s a possibility never Really Imagining What It’s like to get it done.”

As the Youngest of Four Hockey-Obssed Siblings, Vannetten’s Future was clear from a young age. Her Brother Ryan has suited up for the Ontario Hockey League’s Niagara Icedogs and is Currently a Member of the Junior B Chatham Maroons While Older Alexis is a second-Year Member of the University of Regina Cougars.

“I was at the rink More Than I was at my house,” Vannetten Said. “I Grew Up Watching Them and As Soon As I Could Skate, I was out there. We’d Always Play Mini Sticks. I was just surrounded by a hockey family so I Didn’t have a choice, but i’m glad i didn’t because I would have done

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If Having Four Kids All Playing Hockey, Baseball and Just About Every Sport Available Sounds Hectic, That’s because it is. Somehow, Vannetten’s parents Mike and Sarah Never Mosed a Game.

“Honestly, i can’tk their enough for all the effort they put in,” Holly Said. “With all Four Kids Playing Sports, It’s Unbelievable The Ament of Money, The Ament of Time They Spent – They Took Off So many Days for Us, They Never Mosed. If they can be they they will be. If it was wasn’t for them none of us would be successful.

Vannetten’s presence has just been a boost for stonery creek, but the simcoe sabres as well. Two seasons ago she Helped lead the School’s Girls Team to its first ofsaa birth, a feat scs accomplished oncain this month.

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Simcoe Coach Richard Ernst Called Vannetten The Most Talented Player in His Time Behind the Bench.

“She’s also a team player,” Ernst Added. “She’ll Go Out and Bring Up the Spirits of the other Girls and Bring them up to the level she’s playing at.”

It’s not uncommon for Vannetten to Pass Up A Luck A SCORE SO A TEAMMATE CAN FINISH THE PLAY.

“She can see the Ice and Jump up into the offensive play and know enough to get back on a defensive rush,” ernst said. “She’s just an all-arrond Great Hockey Player.”

Things Haven’t Always Been Goals and Glory in the Vannetten Household. As Holly Prepared to Enter High School in the Early Months of the Pandemic, Mike-Known Affectionately As “Chicken”-Got a Severe Case of Covid-19. With Doctors and Nurses Fearing The Worst, He Spent Three MONTHS ON AN EXTRACTORAL MEMBRANE Oxygenation Machine (ECMO) That KEPT HIM ALIVE Long Enough for His Body to Recover.

“When that Happened, It Took us all for a twirl,” Holly Said. “My Mom Didn’t Want To Tell Us Everthing That Was Going On Becuse We Knew How Much that wow affect us, but we kind of just stuck with it.”

Sarah and Her Siblings Bonded Together, and Eventually Mike Returned Home, Bringing With Him A New Assembiation for Life – and Hockey – That Made Its Way Throughout the Household.

“You never know when it’s gooir to be your last day,” Holly Said. “So You Can’t Take Anything For Grant.”

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