S8: First Texan Bulldog - Villanueva's Unlikely Goaltending Origin

Sophia Villanueva is the first Bulldog — men or women — to call Texas home. However, Texas is just one of the plethora of places the Minnesota Duluth freshman goaltender has called home in her young life.

Villanueva's father, Mark, was a maintenance test pilot for Apache helicopters in the U.S. Army and his career took the family to Texas, Korea, Colorado Springs and back to Texas. Meanwhile, Villanueva's burgeoning hockey career has taken her to Arizona, Minnesota, Connecticut and back again to Minnesota, where at UMD she is the ever-ready understudy of Bulldogs junior goalie and Canadian Olympic hopeful Eve Gason.

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