As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success

by Kendall Coyne

240 pages, Paperback

Published January 6, 2026

Reviews

[Chelsea Culbert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great memoir that essentially follows the growth of women’s hockey. I especially loved her early childhood experiences with the sport. If she said “pun intended” one more time I thought I’d lose it.

[Abby Greaves · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't typically give memoirs a rating, but for Kendall, I had to!

After watching the USA hockey team this Olympics, I became obsessed with the PWHL. I watched the documentary, I dove into learning about the teams, picked the team I will "root" for (I'm honestly rooting for them all because GO WOMEN's SPORTS), and followed some of my favorite players on social media. Though Kendall isn't on "my" team, I still wanted to learn more about her. When I saw she wrote a book, I immediately wanted it! I found the audiobook on Spotify and dove in. Love that she narrated it herself.

Learning about how she and others started the league was amazing, but I really enjoyed learning more about her and how she fell in love with hockey.

Kendall is a badass! I hope this book starts being sold other places than just the PWHL website so that more people can read this story! I deff recommend, and I hope aspiring pro-athletes read it!

[Britt McCracken · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved hearing the author narrate the audiobook! The book explains how Kendall never wavered from her values and what she felt was right. I appreciated how she brought up her stories of adversity especially as a woman in athletics.

[Natalie Kirch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geared towards driven teenagers who have big goals.

[alondra · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 ⭐️ I don’t read nonfiction often but I loved Kendall Coyne’s story during the olympics and I wanted to read more. I honestly loved this so much. So inspiring and so exciting.

[kenna]

“To date, no women’s professional hockey league exists that gives women the opportunity to make a living playing the game.”
Listening to this in a post-PWHL world is actually crazy!