Parent
WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 22
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) hockey camps
by email@hidden (Rhonda Paprocki)
2) Re: hockey camps
by email@hidden
3) Too old?
by Anne Paulson
4) Re: Too old?
by email@hidden (Stormwind)
5) Never too old!
by Penny Ginn
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 09:20:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: email@hidden (Rhonda Paprocki)
To: email@hidden
Subject: hockey camps
Message-ID:
I am thinking of going to a local hockey school put on by
RinkSport Women's Ice Hockey Camps. Has anyone been to one
of these? They have youth level day camps, and senior level evening
camps. According to their brochure, they already had camps this
summer in Anchorage, Alaska and Fremont, CA and have some coming up
in Mass, NY, D.C., Minn, Mich. (I'm in Mich)
Another, totally unrelated question:
Has anyone had a lot of luck in getting sponsors for a senior women's
team (C/D level)? We've been trying, but not getting anywhere.
Rhonda Paprocki
email@hidden
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 13:37:13 GMT
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden,
Subject: Re: hockey camps
Message-ID:
My wife was signed up for the Rinksport senior camp here in DC. It was
cancelled.
As far as sponsorship for the team, they have tried but no one is willing.
They tried to get jerseys at a discount with logo and lettering, but the
business es were not interested.
_________________________________________
Jim Buckingham email@hidden
Voice (703) 416-8810 Ext 512
Fax (703) 416-8839
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 95 10:29:10 -0700
From: Anne Paulson
To: email@hidden
Subject: Too old?
Message-ID:
It all started when we took Will to a Sharks game. Well, I guess it
started earlier... last year, when the Sharks made the second round of
the playoffs, and were much pictured in the paper. Will, then 4, was
fascinated, and I promised to take him to see a Sharks game this year.
The lockout intervened, but finally, just at the end of the season, we
saw the Sharks-Blues game. Our dear Sharks lost, but Will was
completely hooked, and I had a pretty good time myself. The Sharks
made the playoffs again, and we suddenly found ourselves hockey fans.
But Will really, really wanted to *play* hockey. So I got him some
inline skates. Then they looked like so much fun that I got myself
some inline skates, and sure enough, they *were* fun. I'd skate
around with Will, mostly practising crossovers, skating backwards and
turning around from forwards to backwards. I got some boys down the
street to give me some tips.
Suffering hockey withdrawal at the end of the season, we went to a
Rhinos (roller hockey) game. It was a kick, cheap too, and you got to
skate around on the Sport Court afterwards.
I got Will a cheapie stick and ball, and let him play around. I
signed him up for a hockey clinic given by the Rhinos at the end of
the summer.
Yesterday I got a call from the woman in charge of the clinic- they
were having a clinic that day, and it was undersubscribed, and did
Will want to go for free? I said yes, of course, packed up all our
stuff on the tandem, and off we rode to San Jose, about an hour away.
We were having guests that night, and the house was a mess, but who's
going to clean up the house when they can play hockey?
We got there, and they suited up Will with all the hockey gear. At 5, he
was the youngest kid there, and he looked awfully cute, and so proud,
in all his stuff. They started with some skating and puckhandling
drills. I watched for a while, but then I figured I'd put on my own
skates and skate around a bit in the parking lot. The organizer told
me I should go and join the clinic too! I had never held a hockey
stick before, but total ineptitude and looking a fool don't scare me,
so out I went. At 39 I was a bit overage (the clinic was for 5-12
year olds), but I figured I'd give it a go. The instructor/student
ratio was great; three Rhinos to eleven kids and one middle-aged
housewife. We did shooting drills, and scrimmaged three on three,
with the Rhinos acting as goalkeepers and intervening when necessary.
The Rhinos were sweet, and good instructors.
I was terrible, of course. I was slow. I couldn't get my wrist shot
to get off the rink. When we were playing a chasing game, I couldn't
catch the little kid skating with a puck, even though I didn't have a
puck. In the scrimmage, I was no asset to my team. I fell down when
I tried to turn. I had a great time, and I want to play hockey.
Is this really stupid? I read the post from the new mom, about
playing hockey with teenagers young enough to be her daughters. Look
at the trouble she had, and I have all of her disadvantages and lack
her advantage of experience. I don't expect that I'd ever be good,
although I'd undoubtedly improve a good deal. I just want to play.
I don't imagine it's so easy to find a pick-up game for ancient women
like me, but are there leagues?
We're going back to the original clinic Will signed up for, and the
organizer promised that I could skate again too.
-- Anne Paulson
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 11:12:13 -0700
From: email@hidden (Stormwind)
To: Multiple recipients of list ,
Subject: Re: Too old?
Message-ID:
Anne Paulson worries about being too old
to play hockey....
fear not! remember, charles schultz (the
guy who draws the "peanuts" cartoon) is
somewhere in his late 60's/early 70's and
HE still plays ice hockey up in santa
rosa here in california.
it's a common gripe heard at the pha zombies
practice (my women's team shares the ice
with the zombies, a co-ed team), "don't you
just HATE young legs?!?!?!" whenever someone
brings their kid to practice with them.
you're never too old to play. what you *do*
need to do is skate on a regular basis (at
least twice a week) to build up your skating
skills and endurance, and you need to practice
shooting at least once a week and work on
your weak points.
you don't have to be *fast* to play hockey.
just effective.
stormwind
hell's amazon
lord of the frozen realm
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 15:15:04 +0100 (EDT)
From: Penny Ginn
To: email@hidden
Subject: Never too old!
Message-ID:
I understand your obsession with hockey!
I watched the kids in my town play roller hockey last summer, and it
looked like such fun I wanted to try it. I'm 34, the mother of twin girls
who have absolutely no interest in hockey, and I've never even watched
hockey before last year. I had just taken up inline skating a few months
before. The first time I skated with a stick, it was nigh onto
impossible. But ... I stuck with it and kept trying, and now I coordinate
hockey games most every weekend for all the kids - and I play with them.
The other mothers love me for it, because they get to dump their
kids off for 2-3 hours on Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon. I
love it, because it gives me the chance to play. The kids must enjoy
coming and playing with me, because they keep coming back! We
average anywhere from 6-25 people there each time. There's one
girl who sometimes comes, but the rest are boys age 5-17. Another
mom has just recently started playing with us too - I could tell
when she was watching us that she really wanted to play, even
though she knew nothing about hockey, so I finally talked her into
trying it.
So, if you can't find pick-up games to get into, start your own! Word
gets around pretty good about when and where we play. You'd think that
with the wide age range of kids, we'd have problems with some getting
hurt. But for the most part, the older guys are real good about giving
the younger ones a chance - in fact, often I'll see them feed the puck
to a young one at the net even though they've got a great shot
themselves.
Penny
Mrs. Penny M. Ginn ,---, email@hidden (803)833-8212
Assoc Dir of Computer Services |---' ___ You don't quit playing because
Presbyterian College |\ /| _ you get old ... you get old
Clinton, SC 29325-2998 USA | \/ |___| because you quit playing!
------------------------------
End of WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 22
********************************