March 12, 2023 — A tragedy in Colorado

Final fall, Anna Burhmann arrived as a first-year pupil at Sacred Coronary heart College in Fairfield, Conn. There, as a member of the varsity discipline hockey crew, she began seven of the Pioneers’ video games in a 2-14 season.

The Dusseldorf, Germany resident was credited for giving good vitality every time she patrolled the pitch.

However six days in the past, she was on a ski journey in Colorado when she left the path and crashed right into a tree. She was rushed to a hospital the place it was found that her spinal twine was severed and her C6 and C7 vertebrae have been damaged.

As with many of those sorts of private tragedies, a GoFundMe account was set as much as pay for medical care. And should you take a look at the donors, the breadth of help she has acquired has been astounding. Groups resembling LaSalle College, Franklin & Marshall, Delaware, Princeton, Bryant, the Souderton Strikers membership crew, and Level Nice Boro (N.J.) have chipped in with donations and phrases of help.

It’s occasions like this when the American and worldwide discipline hockey communities come collectively as one and present energy and help. I invite you to do the identical.