Player number: 2
Position: Defense
Shoot: Left
Height: 5’ 6”
Weight: 180 lbs.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Current career: Advertising
Background: Having a father who represented Japan in the Innsbruck and Lake Placid Olympics for ice hockey, and a mother who coached Olympic-caliber figure skaters, I grew up on the ice from the day I could walk. I continued to play in Colorado where my mother taught at the Olympic training center, then moved back to Japan and competed on the national level throughout middle school. I returned to the U.S. for high school where I played prep school hockey in Boston with teammate Andrew Goldstein. I graduated from Middlebury College in 2006 after a lucrative and successful career in the Middlebury Intramural Ice Hockey League.
Best hockey experience: My first tournament with GForce
Pets: None
Favorite place you’ve visited: Tokyo and Shanghai
Favorite beverage: Diet Coke
Favorite sport outside of hockey: Squash
If I could eat anything it would be . . . Asian food.
If I could be anywhere right now it would be . . . on the beach.
When I step on the ice, I feel . . . liberated and exhilarated.
If a gay hockey player sat in front of me, I would . . . be completely surprised.
