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Born in Timmins but spending much of her youth in Manitowadge, Alyssa Frising enjoyed the benefits of a small-town community, knowing everybody. Moving to Sudbury with her family in 2006, the 15 year old athletic teen has recovered some of that sentiment in her first year of secondary education.
Frising has followed in the footsteps of older brother Cody, attending Bishop A. Carter Catholic Secondary School in Hanmer. “I thought it would be a good suit for me,” she said. “I liked the teachers, because I had met some of them through my brother.”
With a background in both soccer and hockey dating back several years, Frising wasted little time immersing herself at her new school, hooking up with the flag football team last fall. Her natural athleticism was quickly evident as the high school freshman was named starting quarterback early in the year.
“They thought I had a good throwing arm,” Frising noted. “It’s fun to learn a new sport.” Of course, it didn’t hurt that she had a little extra help to draw on. “Cody helped me a lot, even though he’s a lineman,” Frising said with a smile.
“He always made me practice in the backyard.” If flag football was a novelty for the Golden Gator newcomer, hockey was much more second nature. In her younger years, back home, Frising was typically one of perhaps two or three girls on a boys hockey team, with numbers alone dictating the need to amalgamate a co-ed team in Manitowadge.
The experience helped shape her play, one which carries a natural aggressiveness which can be both good and bad. “The pace of the (girls) game is slower and the guys were more aggressive and violent,” Frising said.
It’s what she became accustomed to before suiting up with Bishop Carter. “I seem to get away with a lot – the refs seem to like me,” she said. And teammates as well.
The Golden Gators girls hockey team advanced to the SDSSAA “B” Championship before falling to St Benedict. “We have so many young players on this team, it’s very exciting,” said Frising.
Playing girls hockey for the first time has opened up the avenues of improvement. “I need to get better at carrying the puck, seeing where my teammates are and making good passes to them,” acknowledged Frising.
With the bulk of her high school athletic career still ahead, the soft-spoken teenager looks forward to testing the waters of other disciplines, notably volleyball, which she played in grade eight. In her mind, the community at Bishop Carter presents the ideal setting to test the boundaries of her natural athleticism.
“All the people here are very welcoming and very supportive.”
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Alyssa Frising, Flag Football & Hockey
“I need to get better at carrying the puck, seeing where my teammates are and making good passes to them.”
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