Flyguys and Flygirls

"We can work this out," T.J. tried to state calmly, "Coach we can make this work."
"That's not the problem, T.J.," her coach, Jared Conny stated.
"Then what is, I dont understand what the problem is."
"T.J. look around, you are surrounded by a bunch of males."
"They will be fine."
"I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about you. They wont be happy about a 'little girl' playing 'their' game with them."
"Coach, please, I've played with guys all my life. I can't play in the girls league. I want this, I can make it work."
"T.J. One practice, to prove you belong. If it doesn't work, you don't bring any of this up," Coach Conny sighed, tired of arguing with the persistent little girl in front of him.
"Thank you Coach, you wont regret this," T.J. said with excitement. She got up and left for the door, containing her excitement.
"15 minutes and you need to be on the ice, you better hurry," coach said as she was about to step through the door.
"Okay."
She stepped through the door and walked far enough away before letting out a yes! and punching the air.

"Easy there flicka, dont want to hurt yourself," a young hockey player said as he walked past her and into the office, "see you on the ice, i assume."
T.J. smiled at him and nodded, before hurrying to the bathroom where she changed as quickly as she could.
As soon as she got the last of her padding on she made sure her braid was tucked in to her jersey and put her helmet on. Before leaving she checked in the mirror to make sure people wouldn't be able to tell she was in fact a girl.

As she walked towards the ice, she heard many guys joking around and laughing. As she got closer to the ice she heard them making fun of the few players trying out for the team.
"Look at that one, he lost the puck!" One said and they all broke out into a laughing fit.
T.J. saw the goalie in the crease and noticed how he moved from side to side. She noticed the minor flaws and thought to herself what he could do to fix them.
She stepped out onto the ice and started her 2 laps, then stretched on the ice before heading over to the crease.
The goalie in the net said "I almost done, 2 secund."
She noticed how heavy his accent was and how he never looked over her way as he focused on the puck. When the last shot missed the goal and came towards her she instinctively moved aside to allow it to hit the boards. The guys on the bench died from laughter saying loud enough for her to hear "A goalie who cant block a Puck!"
Coach was about to say something but saw T.J. shake her head. He then announced it was open ice and time to warm up, asking those who were trying out to step off and sit on the bench.
Coach Conny then picked up a stick and a few pucks and headed over to the crease where T.J. was.
"Coach, sir, please dont say anything. I want to see their faces when they find out im a girl", she said quietly.
Coach nodded and skated off to allow her to get in the net before opening up and taking a few shots, all of which she stopped. She nodded signaling she was good to go for drills and more shots from the guys on the team.
Coach blew his whistle and motioned for her to stay over in the crease while the remainder of the guys made a circle around him.
"Alrighty boys, we have a goalie here today and, they are warmed up. We are going to run the shootout drill after 5 minutes of 5 on 5 and 5 minutes of 3 on 3. lets go boys!"
The group split into teams and started the scrimmage, the whole time she only faced one shot which hit her leg pad and bounced off to the corner.

They started the shootout drill everyone taking a shot. She saved and blocked every one that came her way.
Coach yelled for Eric to go. She noticed he was the one making all the jokes, and felt the anger boil her blood. She focused on his movement and the puck. He went to pull back and she noticed he was gonna fake it so she remained where she was. He went left then pulled right, before taking off into the goal, the puck on the tip of his stick before he flicked it up. She knew he'd flick it last second, grabbed the puck as soon as it left the ice, closed her glove. As soon as he flicked the puck up he slammed her back into the net. She kept the glove closed and over the line, making sure it wouldn't be a goal. Coach blew his whistle and the whole team came flying over to get Eric off the goalie. Coach noticed she had kept the puck out and was not moving while Eric was being pulled off. The whole team was talking about how great of a save that had been, when coach helped her out of the goal.
As she got up her braid fell out of her jersey causing the whole group to fall silent.
Coach motioned for the guys to go change but instead they all looked at the girl who had invaded their practice.
The guy who had talked to her in the hall went over and told her how great of a save she had made and said that he'd see her next practice before skating off. The rest of the team followed him but never said anything.

After Coach shot at least 100 pucks at her he said he'd see her the next practice and to go change. She left the rink wearing a smile that couldn't be wiped off her face, until she ran into Eric and his gang. Eric starting heading over towards her when the only nice guy from the team came over and started talking to her.
"Hey, my name is Kris, dont worry he wont come over, he knows he will get in a ton of trouble if coach finds out," Kris smiled.
"Hey, thanks. Its kinda weird, them not wanting me to play."
"Dont worry about it, you played better than our old goalie. Erics Brother. I'll see you next practice yeah?"
"Yeah see ya then."

Notes

First chapter is just to allow you to see who she is and where she comes from in the hockey aspect. More to come!