GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Mia Dunning woke up early on Thursday morning. She rolled out of bed and got ready for a big day. It was game day. It was a weekday. Her team was playing at 9:45 a.m.

It was certainly a different feeling since her squad, Team Wisconsin, was competing in the Toyota-USA Hockey Girls Tier I National Championships at the 14U level.

Dunning — a native of De Pere, just down the road from Green Bay — and her teammates had never experienced nationals. She was hoping the comforts of home and sleeping in her own bed would relax her before perhaps the biggest game of her life.

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