Dare to Make History is the story of two courageous and talented women
who weren't willing to accept anything less than being treated as
equals. On their journey to a gold medal in women's ice hockey, they
became role models for generations before and after them.
Twins Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando started
playing ice hockey with their four older brothers and their friends on a
frozen pond next to their home in North Dakota. No girls hockey teams,
no problem―they just played on boys teams.
They went on to win six World Championships and played in three
Olympics, winning two silver medals and ultimately a gold medal in South
Korea in 2018 for the USA Women's National Team.
They did not allow roadblocks and discrimination deter them from taking
on their governing body--USA Hockey--threatening to boycott the 2017
World Championships and jeopardizing their ability to compete in the
2018 Olympics unless their gender equity issues were addressed. The
success of Monique, Jocelyne, and their team thrust them into the center
of the struggle for gender equity, for women in hockey and in sports in
general, as well as in society at large.
In Dare to Make History, the Lamoureux twins chronicle their journey
to the pinnacle of their sport, their efforts along with almost 150
other hockey players to start a new professional women's hockey league,
their training to come back and make another national team after giving
birth, their tireless efforts to advance the interests of disadvantaged
communities in closing the digital divide, and their ongoing
contributions as role models championing the dreams of future
generations of girls in sports, education, and the workplace.
This is not a hockey book. It is not a girls book. It is a book about
the importance of the fight for equity, particularly gender equity. It
is the inspirational story of how two young women from a small town in
North Dakota have dreamed big--had the courage to take on huge
battles--and in the end how they have dared to make history.
