Upper Montgomery Lightning Junior Forward Olivia Robbins was named to the second team All-Metropolitan Girls ice hockey team by the Washington Post newspaper. It is an exceptional honor for Olivia, and she becomes the first Upper Montgomery student athlete in program history to be named to an All-Met ice hockey team.
Olivia’s selection comes on the heels of her fine junior season where she scored six goals and registered five assists in eleven games. Olivia’s performance of a point per game playing against the top teams in Division One of the Montgomery Hockey Conference (the top conference in the Maryland Scholastic Hockey League) made an impression on the selection committee. There are very few female student athletes competing in the Maryland Scholastic Hockey League as many female student athletes choose to compete in Girls only high school leagues. If Olivia chose to play in Girls only high school hockey, she would dominate play. Playing against her male counterparts, some of whom will play advanced hockey in college or junior leagues, is a much tougher environment in which to compete and makes Olivia’s statistics all the more impressive.
Outside of high school hockey, as an underage student athlete, Olivia plays for the Washington Pride 19U AAA team, the top female external travel team in the Washington, DC metro area.
The Upper Montgomery program is proud of Olivia’s accomplishment and recognition. She will receive her All-Met plaque at the team’s year end celebration in May.