She was scheduled to make her debut with the Malmö Redhawks of the HockeyAllsvenskan, the second-tier men’s league in Sweden, on 8 March 2006, as the first woman to ever play for a professional men’s team in Sweden but this move was vetoed by the University of Minnesota Duluth, the U.S. school that had offered her a scholarship to play hockey. This was because the NCAA, the main governing body for U.S. college sports, prohibits athletes at its member schools from having previously played in a professional league, even if they are not paid.