82-year-old Virginia lady is world’s oldest feminine hockey participant

This senior citizen is in her personal league.

An 82-year-old is the world’s oldest feminine hockey participant, in line with the Guinness E-book of World Information.

Linda Sinrod, of Lorton, Virginia, a former school determine skater who performs in a girls’s ice hockey league there, bought a nod from the reference e book Friday.

“I’ve at all times been the oldest particular person enjoying so have at all times been curious as to how outdated the oldest feminine hockey participant was and ultimately as I bought to be 80, I checked Guinness World Information to see how outdated the oldest was,” she informed the report e book. 

The octogenarian was in her late 30s when she helped discovered the primary girls’s ice hockey crew within the Washington, DC space, the place she performed for 10 years — till she determined it was time to hold up her skates.

Nonetheless, at age 67, she returned to the game and performed on one other crew till she turned 75 as a result of they requested her to depart.

“Since I’m older and subsequently slower than anybody else, it’s simpler for the opposing gamers to catch as much as me and steal the puck away,” she defined.

That setback didn’t cease her from pursuing her ardour for the puck. After she was kicked off the crew, she joined the ladies’s league for which she presently performs.

To coach for hitting the ice, she weight trains twice per week and bikes 3 times per week. 

“Besides when I’m enjoying ice hockey,” she stated. “Then it’s twice per week.”