{"id":21898,"date":"2017-07-17T20:52:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21898"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:52:40","slug":"thunder-road-to-host-amanda-pelkey-night-this-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/07\/thunder-road-to-host-amanda-pelkey-night-this-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Road to Host Amanda Pelkey Night This Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thunder-e1451780097380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"54\" \/>Barre, Vt.<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Thunder Road officials have announced that the track will host Amanda Pelkey Night this\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1377753415\">Thursday, July 20<\/span>\u00a0as part of FairPoint Communications Night. The Montpelier native will be honored with a send-off ceremony as she prepares to begin training for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea with the United States Women\u2019s National Ice Hockey team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pelkey began her hockey career with the Barre Youth Sports Association and was a member of the Junior Women\u2019s Hockey League throughout her high school years, first with the Boston Shamrocks of Massachusetts and later with the North American Hockey Academy of Stowe, Vt. She attended the University of Vermont (UVM) from 2011 to 2015 and holds all of the school\u2019s women\u2019s ice hockey scoring records.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prior to being selected for the 2018 Winter Olympics, Pelkey was a member of the U.S. national team that won the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women\u2019s World Championship gold medal in both 2016 and 2017. She also has won two gold medals each in the IIHF Under-18 World Championships and in the Four Nations Cup and won the inaugural Women\u2019s National Hockey League Isobel Cup in 2016 with the Boston Pride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to having Amanda with us\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1377753416\">on Thursday<\/span>\u00a0night and wishing her well as she begins the next stage of her career,\u201d Thunder Road co-owner Cris Michaud said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big deal to have a central Vermont native going to the Olympics and who has accomplished what she has accomplished. When you add in that the Pelkey family has been a part of Thunder Road for multiple generations, we thought it would be fitting to recognize her achievements and give her a good send-off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All Vermont female ice hockey players will be admitted free on FairPoint Night upon registration by\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1377753417\">July 18<\/span>. They can register for the event at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/Pelkey\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/Pelkey&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1500412036331000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHMokoeYMzEOlM56EzvWcLk4IOJyg\">https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/Pelkey<\/a>. Post time for the event is\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1377753418\">7:00pm<\/span>\u00a0with the ceremony planned for intermission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Thunder Road offices at\u00a0<a href=\"tel:(802)%20244-6963\">(802) 244-6963<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:media@thunderroadvt.com\">media@thunderroadvt.com<\/a>, or visit<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderroadvt.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.thunderroadvt.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1500412036331000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGTxhRITnWPoFYNR3C42VjjuM7OAw\">www.thunderroadvt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barre, Vt.\u00a0\u2013 Thunder Road officials have announced that the track will host Amanda Pelkey Night this\u00a0Thursday, July 20\u00a0as part of FairPoint Communications Night. The Montpelier native will be honored with a send-off ceremony as she prepares to begin training for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea with the United States Women\u2019s National Ice Hockey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21899,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21898\/revisions\/21899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}