Maple Grove native overcomes serious injury to play hockey

Mary Shefveland is a graduate of Maple Grove Senior High, class of 2012, and is currently in her third year at Hamline University in St. Paul. A year from today, Dec. 9, 2013, she went through with a career threatening surgery on her left hip after discovering an over bone growth impingement. She was able to overcome the injury and make it back to the ice this 2014-2015 season for NCAA Division-III college women’s hockey as a goalie for Hamline University. She started at goalie for the team’s season opener on Nov. 14. In two games started this season, Shefveland already has 60 saves. The student newspaper at Hamline University, The Oracle, has published an in-depth feature on Shefveland’s road to recovery. Click here, to read.