New York Riveter’s Goaltender Jenny Scrivens: From Cornell To The NWHL [Exclusive Video]

New York Riveter’s Goaltender Jenny Scrivens… by uSports

Caifornia might not be a hotbed of hockey, but that’s where New York Riveters goalie Jenny Scrivens got her start. With the sport booming following Wayne Gretzky‘s trade to the Los Angeles Kings, Scrivens and her siblings were bitten by the hockey bug.  “I grew up in Southern California, I grew up in Camarillo, a town just outside Los Angeles and I come from a family of six. My two older brothers loved playing street hockey; it was kind of the thing to do. Along with my identical twin sister, we wanted to do everything they were doing, so that included street hockey and that progressed to inline and then ice hockey,” she told uSports exclusively. “But I have to say that I think we were also part of the ‘Gretzky Effect.’ I know that it’s gotten a lot of hype around the L.A Kings and Southern California and growing up Gretzky had a huge influence on every little kid wanting to grow up and be just like him. So I’d have to say that the Edmonton Oilers contributed to my playing hockey as well.”  Being the youngest sibling–not to mention a girl– came at a price, however; Jenny had to be the goalie. Once she moved into the net, though, the rest was history. “I was the youngest, although albeit only by five minutes, so I was still the youngest of the two girls and I think that my older brothers kind of just threw me in net. But also, when we were little, I think about six years old, we started playing in an inline roller hockey league,” she recalled. “The one goalie that we had didn’t do so well; I think he let in about 20 goals in one game. I was like ‘enough of this, I’m going to try it’ and I never looked back.”