Skating Out of the Vault

As an athletic five-year-old daydreaming under the bed, Brianne Brinker thought she was maybe a girl. But that truth was locked deep inside a vault as she grew up navigating the hyper-masculine world of Division I men's hockey-as a player, coach, husband, father, and college athletic administrator.

Skating Out of the Vault is her powerful memoir of identity, resilience, and late-in-life transition. With raw honesty and hard-won grace, Brianne reveals how she broke free from the game of masculinity-and what it really means to win.