This season’s 100,000th 8U player is Sophia, from San Jose, California. She became interested in playing hockey after watching both games and practices at the rink she took skating lessons at, which led to her enrollment at the Little Sharks Program in San Jose, California. Her favorite part about playing hockey is having fun, and her favorite team is her hometown San Jose Sharks. Sophia hasn’t decided who her favorite player is just yet.
The 2010-11 season was the first in which USA Hockey had 100,000-plus players at 8U and it has continued to cross that threshold each season since, outside the pandemic campaign of 2020-21. All total, USA Hockey includes more than 1,000,000 players, coaches, officials and volunteers in all 50 states
