Growing up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital city, Chee and other women from her generation were denied opportunities to train or play because of their gender. Today, the former goalie is a volunteer international sports programming consultant and former general secretary of the Malaysian Ice Hockey Federation (MIHF), devoted to creating a sustainable and successful women's ice hockey program. She's organized five international events in Malaysia, and has overseen more than 200 athletes and officials from South Korea, Ukraine, Malaysia, Thailand and Serbia under a training program supported by the Korean Olympic Committee.
But Chee wants more. New teams need to be formed and new players incorporated into existing ones. To support the effort, women need to be hired for roles in officiating, coaching and management. One of Chee's goals is to create a hockey academy specifically for girls in conjunction with ice rinks to create a participation program at minimal cost.
"The initial feedback I've gotten is that they'd love to work on something like that," Chee said of the NHL.
"What this little puck will do, it will feed itself. It just keeps going on when you have the girls' hockey academy, and I would want to spread this to other ice rinks as well.
"With this little puck, it will just keep traveling. Whatever happens, it will keep growing. Hopefully not just in the capital city, where I'm based, but where there are ice rinks."