A professional hockey player is sporting some custom gear straight from the Bronx.
Abbey Levy, the goalie for the New York Sirens, visited a group of Bronx preschoolers to help them design a custom helmet, complete with face mask to protect the Professional Women’s Hockey League player while she defends the net from flying hockey pucks.
The NY Siren’s official Instagram account posted photos of the helmet along with a video of Levy joining the preschool class while they designed the artwork.
“This already is my most favorite helmet I’ve ever created,” Levy said in the video as she revealed the newly designed helmet.
The Bronx preschoolers have a unique connection to the pro athlete. Levy’s mother, Margaret, teaches the little artists of Class 207 at the Harry H. Gordon school in Belmont.
To assist in designing the helmet, Levy brought coloring pages to her mother’s classroom with images like the Statue of Liberty, a slice of pizza, a taxicab and a Yankees logo. In the social media video, she said that she wanted the kids to color pictures that remind them of New York.
Now, images from the young Bronx artists will join Levy on the ice for hockey fans everywhere to see.
“It’s going to be a helmet dedicated to them, but also for the New York Sirens,” Levy said in the video.
The video showed Levy encouraging the kids, offering fist bumps and letting each one try on her Sirens jersey atop a soundtrack of swelling, feel-good music mixed with the delighted shrieks of little children. The final product is a brightly colored helmet covered in Crayola signatures of all the artists and the images that make them think of the city.
Levy is part of the cohort of the first ever draft of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). The 24-year-old also took home a gold medal with Team USA at the 2023 IIHF Women’s World Championship.
