Alex Carpenter, a forward on the United States' women's hockey team in Beijing, grew up in a hockey family from North Reading. Her dad, former Bruins player Bobby Carpenter, shares what it was like to raise an Olympian:
Alex Carpenter plays against Switzerland during a preliminary round women's hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb. 6, 2022, in Beijing.
Bobby Carpenter says he never told his children to play hockey. It didn’t bother him that Alex wasn’t as interested in his sport initially and took up soccer instead. Her brother, Robert"Bobo" Carpenter, played, but the youngest Carpenter, Brendan, chose football. Alex eventually picked up a stick at 7-years-old, late by many hockey family standards.
“Those are the special moments," he said."That's why we're so close together today and we always check up on each other." Alex was born in Massachusetts, but had spent most of her childhood moving from state to state. By the time Alex was going to high school, Bobby Carpenter and his wife knew it was time to settle down. They saw the toll of the frequent moves on other players’ children.
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