Shaiyena Côté Widens the Path for Indigenous Women in Hockey
A proud member of the Temagami First Nation, Shaiyena Côté has big goals for herself and for the sport she loves.
It all started with a poster.
Shaiyena Côté stared at the wall where her mom hung a poster of the Stanley Cup in her room and at four years old declared, “I’m gonna win that one day.”
Like most young Canadians, Côté watched Hockey Night in Canada, snuck into beginners hockey a year early, and played with boys. Although she had to pivot her dream pretty quickly when her mom broke the news that she likely wouldn’t grow tall enough to win Lord Stanley as a player, there were other ways to win the Cup. Her plan remained, but she knew it would have to be through coaching.
