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Laila Edwards: BLACK USA HOCKEY PLAYER
Laila Edwards: Black USA Hockey Player
Laila Edwards was born January 25, 2004, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into a busy, competitive, faith‑filled household. Her parents, Charone Gray‑Edwards and Robert Edwards, raised five children who turned their home into a training ground—rollerblades on the floors, sticks in the hallway, pucks off the walls. Laila, the youngest, was often thrown in goal, then grew into a towering 6'1" skater with reach, power, and vision that could not be ignored.
She started on the ice as a figure skater around age three, then shifted to hockey a few years later. Very…
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