Doing My Bit To Promote An Olympian

Our niece, Colleen Sostorics, is currently competing at the Olympics in the Canadian women's hockey team. You'd hardly know it, though, by media attention to her. I don't do an actual count of which team member is mentioned most (although Hayley Wickenheiser would be a good bet—and probably rightfully so). But I'm willing to bet Colleen would be mentioned least. I know, I know—not everyone on the team can have 18 articles a week written about them. I know I'm being all aunt-like and huffy. But, honestly—with one exception, the only time I've seen her name mentioned so far is in stories about who made the team. It was the same at the last Olympics (when she won gold at Salt Lake City in 2002). I only saw her name mentioned once. At that time, one perceptive columnist in the Globe and Mail wrote something like "Colleen Sostorics doesn't get the credit she deserves. When the going gets rough, she just gets better." However, here's one good article about her in the provincial media—and about time!