A last skate for a pickup hockey game that started four decades ago
Steven Sharpe joined the pickup hockey game the year it started at the Fort Dupont Ice Arena, and he kept going back to that ice.
“It is astounding to think I’ve been going to this game for 44 years,” Sharpe said on a recent morning.started in 1979 has become its own Washington institution in some ways. It has seen lawyers, realtors, chefs, government workers and, for a brief moment, John F. Kerry play. When Sharpe joined the game, he was an intern working on his medical residency at George Washington University Hospital. He is now a 72-year-old retired emergency room doctor who still plays when he’s able.
Koenig grew up in the region and used to skate at the Fort Dupont rink as a child. About six years ago, he started showing up there in the mornings, and eventually the group invited him to play with them. Klym’s son attends Gonzaga College High School, which has also used the Fort Dupont arena to play hockey. The pickup game, after all, is just one way individuals in the region have formed connections to that ice. Many people have their own stories about what the rink has meant to them.“It’s a beacon of light in a tough part of the city that really helps a lot of kids,” Klym said. The building is in obvious need of renovation. He and other players don’t deny that.
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