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Healey Bernard, born the 5th of October 1998 in Genolier,Switzerland.


 * Also has double citizenship Swiss/Canadian*|

Born and raised around many cultures and religions by following her parents to over 60 countries and has learned many languages such as Greek, French, English, Italian, Finnish, Spanish, German, Russian and Swedish, she had to be homeschooled until she was  13 years old.

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Her brother Vance Bernard started hockey as a goaltender in North America. She became involve with his games and tournaments. At age of 11, she fell completely in love with the sport, her ultimate dream, making it to the NHL. She started playing hockey at the age of 12. She was a goaltender just like her brother.

After a successful experience at the John Elkin’s camp, she started to play in Peewee Minor Leagues in Canada and in Florida, USA.

Healey wasn't able to finish her season, making her leave in January. She will always remember her first coach that told her she was going to be the best goaltender in the world, he has and still remains her main motivator for her career. She moved to Switzerland, at a young age, she stood up to sexism. Training harder than the guys, both on and off the ice, this was the ultimate goal for her.

Her Coaches didn't make her play as much as the other guys, they told her it was because of her gender, therefore she was often the back up, but still would win games when puted in the net. She also had her statistics and her elites prospect deleted a couple of times by the Swiss National Hockey League in request by the club. -“ They wanted me to quit -“. Finally recruited at the age of 13 by the U15 Swiss National Olympic team, she was picked and trained with her new teammates. She quickly quitted afterwards due to a fraud and lack of seriousness. She claimed that the team was replacing players of the age of 13-15 by older women and practiced less than 3 times per year, not even.

She continued playing in the club of Forward Morges for 6 more years ( 2011-2015) and was picked to 3 other clubs, EHC Sensee, Fribourg Ladies/ Gottéron ( 2015-2016)

she was interviewed for TV podcast shows,journal articles and in radio stations. She usually talked about her fight against a < > or about the problem in her club and other clubs in Switzerland, she ended being the national gossip of the country; she quotes, -“ I just wanted change. I wanted equality and value, I felt nauseous to the idea of them thinking that I was nothing but a useless “object” !-“

She started to play in the junior league at the age of 15 years old thanks to one of her coaches that made Healey played 2 entire seasons, she refers to him as a  -“ Life saviour-“. she became stronger, faster on the ice and also a target subject in the clubs she was playing against. Games became a free insult ring and a murder scene, each game as she quoted -“ I was always  ending up fighting like an animal on and off the ice.-“ Although her training, her fights, her voice  and talents along with her very young age, she was never taken seriously. From Forward Morges to Fribourg and Sensee, she claimed that even in the half Swiss German part it was the same old problem. She quotes;-“ My parents weren’t paying my “spot” to play in the best teams like the other boys and girls, I was doing it on my own.-“

Finally giving up on making it in Switzerland, she tried out in the north of Sweden, Haparanda and Torino ( Finland). Thanks to her Swedish hockey camp contacts and knowledge during the Summers of 2014 and 2015, she was set and ready to begin a new adventure in Scandinavia.

Unfortunately, her adventure barely began as she came face to face to the bloodiest fight she has ever encountered during a pre try out tournament.

She was left with a broken right knee and was immediately sent back to Switzerland.

-“ I was terribly in pain and so angry. I was also heart broken to the fact that I couldn’t play hockey ever again, the doctor said. My dream dissapeared right before my eyes at barely 17 years old.” She quotes.

She was out for a whole season, but Healey didn’t stop believing in her dreams of becoming the first female goaltender drafted in the NHL.

She continued her training with her injury, 4 hours a day in the gym. Lifting, stretching, running and etc...

-“ I needed to feel alive and healthy, I wanted to go back on the ice-“

March 20, 2016,

she was in contact with a fellow coach from the Hockey Camp Sweden in Rimbo.

He found a team that could take her and help her come back on track.

She was still pretty fragile in the knees but very happy to be taken as a player. She then made her appearance September to start the season.

She moved to Gotland, Sweden the 11th of September 2016.

She was on a program with 3 trainings a day, good physio therapy and a supportive team.

She gently recovered from her injury in mid December 2016.

-“ I regained strength and energy faster than I thought, I did have a couple of incidents where I couldn’t train because my knees were hurting, overall I was enjoying myself like I was back in Canada with my first hockey team, I was proud to play for Visby Roma. -“

She also became the first female player in the Junior Division 1 league to play in the entire country, talk about girl power! She has attended a couple of <> sports events to talk about her struggles of playing a man’s sport.

After the season of 2016-2017 ended, she went back to Switzerland to work April 15, 2017.

She came back in August to begin her training. She has been improving and claims to have absolutely no knee pain at the moment and hopes to play soon.

Currently she is still playing in Visby Roma, dating a goaltender and attending Swedish School.

-“I went very high and very low, I remain still in a foggy situation where I feel uncertain about the outcome of my decisions and dreams, all I want is to become the first female player to be drafted in the NHL. -“

I thank Healey Bernard for this slightly more detailed interview. I wish her all the best and thanking you for reading my page!

MD James Lin

[All information given was based by the actual person talked in the interview and her privacy was respected]