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In October 1969, Koch (pronounced “Cook”) was an 18-year-old freshman enrolled at Northern Michigan University. She chose NMU for a reason: the school was located in Marquette, Michigan, where the Marquette Iron Rangers played in the USHL. That October Koch traveled to the old Palestra Ice Arena in Laurium, Michigan. She stepped onto the ice under ...
Fame was never what Koch was after. In fact, she believed that playing in front of a crowd was the hardest part for her. Koch took a tranquilizer before each game to help with her anxiety. “I’d just like to play without anyone knowing,” she explained in that same interview. “Really, on the ice, I don’t look like a girl. Really, I don’t. I have shor...
The team’s popular young goaltender felt that she saw the puck better without a mask despite the danger it put her in. In press clippings from her time with the Iron Rangers a scar beneath her left eye is visible. That scar was a result of ten stitches she needed to fix a gash left by a slap shot from her father’s stick two years before her USHL de...
Karen Koch [pronounced "Cook"] (born 1951) is an American former ice hockey goaltender. She played for the Marquette Iron Rangers in the United States Hockey League during the 1969–70 season.
Karen Koch - First Woman Hockey Player Paid to Play. As the Iron Rangers started tryouts and pre-season practice in 1969, the team was coming off a championship season in a tough USHL. Four goalies took the ice and among them was Karen Koch, who would become the first woman to get paid to play hockey.
May 22, 2021 · The Legend of Karen Koch. She joined the Marquette Iron Rangers of the USHL in 1969 as the first female pro hockey player in North America ...more.
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May 16, 2019 · Meet Karen Koch, the first woman to be paid to play professional hockey in North America. During the 1969-70 season, Karen was paid $40/game and played for the Marquette Iron Rangers in the USHL (United States Hockey League) until she was let go from the team with ten games left in the season because she refused to wear a mask. #ThrowbackThursday.
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Karen Ann Koch - Born October 3, 1951 in Gibraltar, Michigan is retired ice Hockey goaltender.
