Underwater hockey is growing one player at a time

GREEN BAY, Wis. (InvestigateTV) — Inside Green Bay’s Kroc Center, athletes from small towns around the region are joining together to play a sport you probably haven’t heard of: underwater hockey.Peter Covach is president of the Green Bay Underwater Hockey Club.“You’ve got a weighted puck, sits at the bottom of the pool, and it moves up and down the pool like soccer or hockey,” Covach said.Molly Banks has been around the sport her entire life.“My parents actually met playing the sport probably 30 years ago,” Banks said. “Our whole family’s just been kind of hockey nuts since then.”The 24-year-old will represent the U.S. later this year in Turkey as a member of the elite U.S. women’s team and is trying to help grow the sport one player at a time.“Every time it comes up it’s always kind of a lecture, like, ‘Oh yeah, people don’t know about it,’” Banks said. “Because it’s such a small sport, getting people into it young is really important to help the sport grow, so as much as we can get