Right foot, over left foot. Round and round she goes. Seems like a pretty fun drill for someone just learning the sport of hockey.

"I absolutely hated it, but it was really important for me to get to where I am now," said Noemi Neubauerova.

For Noemi, better known as "Nemo," it's the first drill that made her fall in love with the sport of hockey. Even more, it made her a standout in the Czech Republic.

Neither of her parents played the sport, and at the age of six, hockey was just for boys.

"It’s pretty rare, I was lucky that I got to skate with my kindergarten class and I moved up to the first grade and I was in class with only boys because it was a hockey class, but once I moved to Prague and went to middle school, it’s not a thing anymore unfortunately, so I had to train hockey separately,” Neubauerova said.

And play separately she did, and she got good, so good that, by the age of 16, Neubauerova was representing her country in the World Championships.

"I was super young. It was a little super scary, but it was a big honor for me to represent my country," she said.

And if those dreams weren’t big enough, she had another dream: to come to the United States to continue playing hockey.

"It’s always been my dream to study and play hockey in the states, since I was a little girl," said Nemo.

So, on her own, she packed a bag and headed here, embracing the challenge of heading to someplace foreign, knowing that there would always be a support system of friends and family — and of course, the sport of hockey.

"It’s was pretty tough at first, because it’s very different from Czech. But I've had a lot of just people along the way like professors, teachers, mentors, coaches, and to have the opportunity to skate here is just amazing,” Neubauerova said.

And all that support has the Raiders' leading goal scorer eyeing one more goal: representing her country in the upcoming Olympics.