Danielle and Ryan Strayer are both playing ice hockey for NZ at world champs next month. Photo: Mountain SceneAwarded Kiwi citizenship only last week, a Queenstown couple are heading overseas to play ice hockey for their new country. Meanwhile, her hubby Ryan Strayer, 33, leaves this coming Monday to get ice time in his US home state, Tennessee. The couple, who met in Queenstown and married a year ago, needed New Zealand citizenship to play world champs hockey. Danielle says their ice hockey credentials meant they gained citizenship three years ahead of schedule.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 23, 2019 18:45 UTC