Sarah Nurse once saw her dream on TV. It led to an Olympic gold medal: Excerpt
Julian McKenzie Wed, 18 February 2026 at 11:16 am UTC·4 min read The following is an excerpt from “Black Aces: Essential Stories from Hockey’s Black Trailblazers” by The Athletic’s Julian McKenzie, copyright @2026 and reprinted with permission from Triumph Books. All rights reserved. The book is available for purchase here. It was a winter’s night in February 2002 when Sarah Nurse was at her grandparents’ home. Her grandmother and pépère — both French Canadian and from Nurse’s mother’s side of the family — invited Nurse to watch the Olympic women’s hockey gold-medal final. Nurse had turned 7 years old one month earlier and was about two years into her hockey journey.Advertisement...