WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 42

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: Grips and sticks
	by "Andria L. Hunter" 
  2) Hockey in Fort Erie, Ontario?
	by "Diane Edwards" 
  3) Hi! (newbie questions alert!)
	by email@hidden (Valerie Schmitt)

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Date: 	Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:25:11 -0500
From: "Andria L. Hunter" 
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Grips and sticks
Message-ID: 

email@hidden (Tom Vehec) wrote:

>My 14 y.o. daughter has trouble getting her full grip around the
>diameter of a full size stick.  I have been planing down the Koho
>Revolution sticks she is currently using, but this process is tedious
>and does not produce consistent results.  A junior stick is too light
>for playing at the Midget level. Are there any full size sticks with a
>slimmer diameter?

There was one woman on our team last year (actually, Steph Boyd, who played 
on Team USA 94) who special-ordered her sticks with a "Japan" model shaft.
The thickness of this shaft is somewhere between a regular stick and a junior 
stick ... perfect for women with small hands ... and easier to get flex out 
of the shaft.  There are a few women that I know who play with a junior stick.
Karen Nystrom of Team Canada 92/94 uses a junior stick ... she also breaks an 
awful lot of sticks :-) ... she has to buy them by the dozen!!

Andria

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Date:          Wed, 22 Feb 1995 16:26:48 EDT
From: "Diane Edwards" 
To: email@hidden
Subject: Hockey in Fort Erie, Ontario?
Message-ID: 

Hi!
    An intramural team-mate of mine is graduating and moving to Fort 
Erie, Ontario at the end of the school year. Is there a women's 
hockey team there? Or where can I find a listing of Ontario women's 
hockey teams. Thanks.
-Diane
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                    Diane Edwards
                    Department of Horticultural Sciences
                    University of Guelph
                    Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
                        email@hidden

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:54:26 -0500
From: email@hidden (Valerie Schmitt)
To: email@hidden
Subject: Hi! (newbie questions alert!)
Message-ID: 

Hello,

I'm new to the list (though I've tried to check out the last month or so of
archives so hopefully I won't jump on a sore topic!) and I'm very excited to
see talk about women's hockey on the net!

In any event, I was hoping for some info on BEGINNING women's hockey in the
Boston area. I just started playing last year with my company team (I'd
never played before, and I was the only woman on the team - very
intimidating, but the guys were pretty good to me - especially when I ended
up being one of the committed few at the end of a long season!) and on an 8
week women's league, but then wimped out on the team I was practicing with
in the fall (scheduling conflicts - I just can't practice at 9:40-11pm on a
weeknight! and who's idea was it to have games on Sunday afternoons
anyway?), so I'm now looking for other opportunities. I'd also like to find
something more at my level - the team from the fall was fun (and the coach
was very encouraging) but I was so far behind most of the "kids" who'd
played in school that I just felt like dead weight. Any hints about leagues
or whatever?

Thanks in advance!
--Val
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Valerie J. Schmitt email@hidden  IRI Software Waltham MA 617-890-1100
Go Sharks! Go Isles!  Infrequently at The Tank: 213/1/10-13 or 214/1/5-8
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