{"id":2458535,"date":"2020-05-17T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/former-steamboat-hockey-player-drafted-to-ushl-commits-to-division-i-program\/"},"modified":"2020-05-17T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:36:00","slug":"former-steamboat-hockey-player-drafted-to-ushl-commits-to-division-i-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/former-steamboat-hockey-player-drafted-to-ushl-commits-to-division-i-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steamboat hockey player drafted to USHL, commits to Division I program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lucas Coon (front row, far left) helped the Steamboat Springs Bantam A hockey team win the state title years ago. Now, he\u2019s been drafted by a U.S. Hockey League team and will play at the junior level before heading to the U.S. Air Force Academy.<\/strong>
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 When Lucas Coon was in fourth grade, he wrote an assignment about a goal he had: to get into Shattuck-St. Mary\u2019s, an elite hockey boarding school in Minnesota. His family didn\u2019t have a hockey history by any means, but that was the dream. Lucas\u2019 mother, Ann Coon, didn\u2019t even know about the assignment until years later, when Lucas actually got into the school.<\/p>\n

After four years at Shattuck, one of the best professional hockey player-producing schools in the country, Lucas committed to play Division I hockey at the U.S. Air Force Academy. In the first week of May, he was selected in the fifth round of the U.S. Hockey League draft by Cedar Rapids, a junior team in Iowa.<\/p>\n

At the request of the Air Force Academy, as most players bound for DI do, Lucas will spend time on the Cedar Rapids team before putting on a silver and blue uniform. Since the Air Force Academy has updated its policies, Coon could go pro before fulfilling his military requirement, which of course, is the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad Lucas just got into Shattuck and his career was over, we would have been proud. The level of hockey there is insane, and the kids that he played with are playing on the national team,\u201d Ann said. \u201cHe was in really good company.\u201d<\/p>\n

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