After graduating from Cornell, Jenny Scrivens (Niesluchowski) '10 had hung up her goalie pads. She had begun a successful career in public relations and was working as Director of Communications at the Ronald McDonald House in Edmonton, Alta., where her husband, Ben Scrivens '10, was playing goal for the NHL's Edmonton Oilers.
 
This past spring, shortly after Jenny Scrivens had decided to leave the Ronald McDonald House to pursue different opportunities, Dani Rylan, who played women's hockey at Northeastern, announced the launch of the National Women's Hockey League, the first professional women's league in the United States to pay its players.

"It came across my Twitter feed all the way over in Edmonton and I was hooked right away," said Scrivens. With Scrivens looking for a new venture, the announcement of a budding hockey league that would need a strong public relations presence seemed almost serendipitous.
 
"Hockey was still a passion of mine, and I hadn't really been able to weave it into my career at all," said Scrivens, who picked up and moved to New York City to head the NWHL's public relations department and play goal for the New York Riveters. "I was looking for that next step in my career; I was willing to make a move. And to be able to do PR for the league and to play — I couldn't have asked for a better fit."

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