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Postcard:
Union's Seney starts season with mind in DC
All Union College
hockey freshman forward Scott Seney wanted to do was adjust to college
life.
He wanted to
do well in his classes, wanted to make a contribution to the hockey
team and wanted to enjoy the entire college experience.
|
DC
Area College Hockey Players |
Player
|
College |
Hometown |
| Jason
Costa |
Dartmouth |
Silver
Spring, MD |
| Peter
Hafner |
Harvard |
Gaithersburg,
MD |
| Noah
Katz |
Union |
Columbia,
MD |
| T.J.
Mathieson |
Notre
Dame |
Clarksville,
MD |
| Craig
Schnappinger |
Fairfield |
Springfield,
VA |
| Tyler
Scott |
New
Hampshire |
Rockville,
MD |
| Scott
Seney |
Union |
Silver
Spring, MD |
| John
Shook |
Sacred
Heart |
Alexandria,
VA |
| Dominic
Smart |
UMass
Lowell |
Millersville,
MD |
| Stephen
Werner |
Massachusetts |
Chevy
Chase, MD |
But for the
past few weeks, Seney had something else on his mind – his
family's safety.
Seney is a native
of Silver Spring, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. Silver Spring
is in Montgomery County, where the majority of the sniper attacks
took place. One of the victims was murdered in Silver Spring on
Oct. 3.
"Every
shooting in Maryland was within a five- to 10-minute drive from
my house," Seney said last Wednesday, a day before the alleged
perpetrators, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, were arrested.
"It's tough."
The three-week
sniping spree left 10 people dead and three seriously wounded. It
left residents in the Washington area fearing for their lives.
Seney was worried
about his family's safety.
"I've talked
to my parents every other day just to get updates on it," Seney
said. "It's scary, obviously, for them and all my friends and
family back home because it's so close to where I live. [They were]
keeping my brother and sister out of school in reaction to the shooting.
But at the same time, you don't want it to let it dominate your
life. You want to try live your life as normal as you can.
His parents
tried to reassure Seney that they were fine.
"When I
talk to them on the phone, they don't sound scared," Seney
said. "But you know deep inside, they are. I'm scared for them.
It's hard dealing with that on top of hockey."
Seney spoke
to his parents after Muhammad and Malvo were arrested.
"It was
pretty much a sigh of relief for them," Seney said. "Everything
can start going back to normal now. I feel better, too. I don't
have to worry about them now and their everyday
life."
–
Ken Schott
Ken covers
college hockey for the Schenectady Daily Gazette |