Having never watched a live hockey game growing up, Tatiana Straathof,is now working with hundreds of goalies, helping them develop their focus in net.
This was not the plan for the Calgary-based aspiring acrobat.
“It’s been very similar to most things in my life. Something comes along my path, I get drawn in, and then before I know it, my whole heart is in it,” said Straathof.
After seeing a Cirque Du Soleil show as a teen she was in awe of what the performers could do, and that’s where she set her sights.
“The limitlessness of the mind combined with the body and so from there, this dream was born,” she said.
She gradated from the national circus school, Ecole Nationale de Cirque in 2015 with the plan to perform. She was set to travel to Europe for tour shortly after, but then her life took a turn for …