Dare to Make History

Chasing a Dream and Fighting for Equity

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, Monique Lamoureux-Morando

• Publisher: Diversion Publishing
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781635767285
• Edition: 0
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies

The Lamoureux twins led the US women's ice hockey team to its first Olympic gold medal in twenty years over arch rival Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Their story of personal grit and determination in the big business of elite international and Olympics sports gives voice to the struggle of female athletes in all sports--and beyond sports--to achieve parity with their male counterparts. From ice rinks to board rooms, the Lamoureux twins refuse to be denied their voice or their chance to help girls and women be victorious in the battle for gender equity. Dare to Make History is the story of two courageous and talented women who weren't willing to accept anything less than being treated as equals. On their journey to a gold medal in women's ice hockey, they became role models for generations before and after them. Twins Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando started playing ice hockey with their four older brothers and their friends on a frozen pond next to their home in North Dakota. No girls hockey teams, no problem?they just played on boys teams. They went on to win six World Championships and played in three Olympics, winning two silver medals and ultimately a gold medal in South Korea in 2018 for the USA Women's National Team. They did not allow roadblocks and discrimination deter them from taking on their governing body—USA Hockey—threatening to boycott the 2017 World Championships and jeopardizing their ability to compete in the 2018 Olympics unless their gender equity issues were addressed. The success of Monique, Jocelyne, and their team thrust them into the center of the struggle for gender equity, for women in hockey and in sports in general, as well as in society at large. In Dare to Make History, the Lamoureux twins chronicle their journey to the pinnacle of their sport, their efforts along with almost 150 other hockey players to start a new professional women's hockey league, their training to come back and make another national team after giving birth, their tireless efforts to advance the interests of disadvantaged communities in closing the digital divide, and their ongoing contributions as role models championing the dreams of future generations of girls in sports, education, and the workplace. This is not a hockey book. It is not a girls book. It is a book about the importance of the fight for equity, particularly gender equity. It is the inspirational story of how two young women from a small town in North Dakota have dreamed big—had the courage to take on huge battles—and in the end how they have dared to make history.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• About the Author
• Back Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by Mika Brzezinski
• INTRODUCTION: Making the Team
• PART 1: The Dream
• PART 2: TEAM USA
• PART 3: THE BATTLE FOR EQUITY AND GOLD
• Part 4: Bigger Than Us
• LETTERS OF CHANGE
• PHOTOS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INDEX