in the ivy league


SMART HOCKEY


courtesy CORNELL ATHLETICS Former Salmon Arm SilverBack


Riley Nash is another BCHL grad thriving at an Ivy League school. Nash is also a first round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers.


“The guy gets up every day and goes


to work and I do the same. I get up and I’m going to the gym or to class,” says the 5-foot-9, 185-pounder, noting his mom Jane, a teacher, provided a necessary amount of motivation too. “She always said she’d appreciate it if


I tried harder in school,” he says, adding the fact he’s at Harvard hasn’t muffled her message. “She still says I should be doing better than I am but I tell her that I’m doing just fine, thanks.” Moriarty is doing just fine on the ice


too. He was tabbed as the team’s Top Rookie at the end of last season after fin- ishing third on the team in goals. He and Limbert are just two of 29 BCHL


grads in the Ivy League. They credit their time in the BCHL for preparing them for the rigours of NCAA Division I hockey. “At this level, everyone is smarter and


faster,” says the 5-foot-9, 175-pound Lim- bert. “But playing in the BCHL was a good step. It’s a similar style, very fast paced.” “It was great for me,” says Moriarty,


who played three years in Melville, Sask. before Alberni Valley. “It was where I wanted to play my final year of junior. It prepared me well to play at the higher


speed of the college game.” Playing in Alberni Valley, Moriarty got


to work with Bulldogs academic advisor Tom McEvoy, who he credits for helping him prepare for the SAT (he scored an im- pressive 2100, well into the 97th percen- tile) and college in general. If there has been a struggle for either


player, it’s involved helping their respective teams reach their on-ice potential. Limbert’s Bulldogs and Moriarty’s Crimson both got off to slow starts in conference play, but both players feel their teams will heat up.


“We’re playing well but coming up


short,” says Moriarty. “But once we get over the hump we’ll surprise some teams.” It’s a similar story for Limbert, who sees


better results on the horizon. “We haven’t found the edge we had


last year,” he says. “But we’re headed in the right direction; we have all the pieces in place and now it’s just a case of putting it all together.” The good news: If anybody is well-


equipped to figure out that particular prob- lem, it’s a room full of Ivy Leaguers.


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