Just 14, Aydan Wang is focused on not only his own hockey career, but those of other players of Asian descent who will soon follow in his footsteps
Winnipeg’s Aydan Wang might only be 14 years old, but he is already blazing
a trail for the next generation of hockey players of Asian descent.
Wang (who turns 15 on June 29) is finishing up his Grade 10 year at St.
George’s School in Vancouver, where he put up 15 goals and 16 assists in 31
games this season for its U15 prep team. He moved from Winnipeg (where he
was a student at St. John’s Ravenscourt School) to attend St. George’s
after his family heard about the academically prestigious school through
general word of mouth.
“We did some research and we thought it was a really great fit because it
combined both really good academics as well as a CSSHL (Canadian Sport
School Hockey League) team,” Wang says. “Interestingly enough, one of my
close friends from California that I had played with before was also
thinking of applying to the school, so we got in touch and decided to both
apply. We contacted the head of hockey during this process, who talked to
his sources in Winnipeg and he offered me a spot on the team. We didn’t
have the best season performance-wise this year, but I felt like there was
a lot of growth with our team.”
Wang, who plays all three forward positions, was recently back in his home
province to compete in the 2022 Hockey Manitoba Male Under-16 Program of
Excellence (POE) Top-40 Camp, which was held from May 6-8 at Stride Place
in Portage la Prairie. He earned himself a spot at the camp after competing
alongside over 100 players at the Hockey Manitoba Male U16 POE Spring
Selection Camp, which was held in Niverville in early April.
Even though he is an elite-level hockey player, Wang is laser-focused on
his education. He is an exceptional student who has a 4.0 unweighted GPA on
a 4.0 scale and a long, family lineage of academic excellence.
His mom Fang, a professor of marketing at…