Sophomore Corey Rufo has been part of the Malden/Revere ice hockey team for two years now. He has been playing Hockey for seven years, he commented that “what kept [him] in the sport was the emotion and that the sport is just so fun…he would always have a good time.”
Rufo first realized his interest in the sport at the age of eight, from a young age he would commonly find interest in watching the Bruins; that persuaded him to start playing the sport himself. Some other sports that he also found passion in consist of lacrosse and golf but more recently, he has played more football than golf.
Participating in the Hockey team, Rufo mentioned that although the team is a combination of two different schools “[they] are basically a family”. Because the players meet one another everyday, Rufo described the feeling like a “second home”. Furthermore, he expressed that with all of the stress from school, while playing the sport “Everything is just taken off [his] shoulders for a couple of hours”.
Something that Rufo believes he should improve on is stamina and his passing accuracy. In contrast, he observed that he is more advanced in “getting the puck from the other team” and he can score against teams that are hard to go against.
Being a student athlete, Rufo’s goals as a student is “to keep [his] grades up” and gain more knowledge and maintain [his] determination in keeping his attendance on track. As an athlete he hopes “to get 23 points by the end of the season as [he] already have 10 goals and 6 assists so [he] only need 7 more with the 5 games remaining”.
Planning ahead of time, he hopes to take Hockey into his college career, explaining that “after high school [his] goal is to play 2 years of junior hockey in the National American Hockey League” and join the college hockey team.
Rufo also expressed his role models, a few consist of “[his] father who is one of the hardest working people [he] knows when he played when he was little he was never one of the best but he constantly worked and worked to get there” the second is his mother who is the person he “wants to be when [he is] older” and the third is his teammate, senior Mike Giordano who is on the team and “constantly pushes [him] on the ice in the gym and almost everywhere else, [he] strives to have a season like he did his junior year where he got 43 points in one season.”
