Since the moment I picked up a camera I was transfixed by moving subjects. The idea of capturing the action captured all of my creative attention. The only problem? No one looked like me. I never had anyone to look up to in the sports world. The players on the TV were men, the coaches behind the bench were men, the support staff, the broadcasters voices, sporting industries are a raging field of testosterone. But when I was first dreaming of where me and my camera would go, it wasn’t something that I paid any mind to; until I wrote up a list of my sports photography idols, and I very quickly realized that I was on my own. Maybe part of setting out on this project was to ease my own mind, that I’m not all alone after all. It’s an intimidating thing, being the only woman in a media room full of men, being asked why you want to dedicate your life to this craft- “it’s just for the hot guys right?” “Which one do you have a crush on?” Questions that I’ve been asked by family, by coworkers, by strangers behind me in a stadium. Questions that follow me everywhere, and no honest answer is enough. So I gathered women from all across the province, who were working in this field. To prove that maybe I’m not so alone after all. From the elementary school phys-ed teacher, to the social media coordinator for an NHL team, to the first female Keeper of the Stanley Cup, there are women working in these industries, we just don’t see them. This project has inspired me to be the person that I didn’t see growing up, to maybe make it on to some young photographers list of idols and know that they will be welcomed into the community with open arms, and not have to question whether or not they deserve their place there.