She grew up in Milton, Ontario, inside the infrastructure of Canadian hockey culture, and chose defense when the obvious path for a player with her skating and her vision would have led forward. That choice shaped everything. For years she competed across formats that could not fully support what she was: the NWHL, the PWHPA's Dream Gap Tour, provisional seasons assembled from showcase tournaments and international competition. She played in all of them, at an elite level, because the alternative was not playing, and that was never a consideration. The PWHL launched in 2024 and Fast arrived with a decade of professional-caliber hockey already behind her.

What she built across those years is not just a résumé. It is a proof of concept: that the women's game, played at its highest level, produces players of genuine complexity and skill who do not need a stable league to validate what they are. Fast proved it from the blue line, in every format the sport offered her, and she is still proving it now.