WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 303

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) club championships
	by Jill Depto 

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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:54:20 EDT
From: Jill Depto 
To: email@hidden
Subject: club championships
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Hello Everyone,

Those of us organizing the club championships just had a meeting with
our athletic department and here are some more details
about what will (probably) be happening providing we get
final approval (which should come in mid-September).  All of the
information in this email is PROPOSED, however, and may change
depending on a number of things.  This is just PROBABLY how it
will be and is in no way definite yet.  I will certainly let you
know when it is definite.

1.  The tournament will be broken down into 2 divisions.
    The top division (the A division) will
    be limited to club teams from universities or colleges.
    The level of play in this division will be for teams with 
    women who have been playing hockey for several years.  This 
    division could have anywhere from 8-12 teams and will have
    a semi-final and a final round.
    
    The bottom division (the B division) will
    not be limited to colleges and universities; however, if too many
    teams are interested, college and university teams will be chosen
    over non-college/university teams.  This level of play
    will be for teams of women who have been playing for 2 years or
    less (this season being their 2nd season).  This division will
    be mainly for fun and will probably only have 6 teams which 
    will be broken into 2 pools of 3 teams with the winners of each 
    pool playing each other in the final game.

2.  Colleges/universities may enter one team in each division (no
    roster overlap allowed).

3.  Teams in the A division will be guaranteed at least 3 games and 
    teams in the B division will be guaranteed at least 2 games.

4.  There will be an entry fee to cover refs, programs, trophies, etc.
    We don't know how much this will be yet, but it will be less for
    B division teams.

5.  The tournament will most likely be held March 6-9 (Thurs.-Sun.)
    1997.  Only local teams (MIT, Harvard Business School, etc.) will 
    be scheduled to play on Thursday.  Semi-local teams (Amherst, Holy 
    Cross, etc.) could be scheduled to play on Thursday and Saturday 
    (but not Friday so they don't have to stay in a hotel and don't 
    have to make the 1 or 2 hour trip 2 days in a row).  If you are a 
    semi-local team please let us know if you would be willing to play 
    on Thursday and Saturday.  Non-local teams (those more 
    than 2 hours away) will probably have one game on Friday and 2 on 
    Saturday.  In the A division, only the semi-finals and final will
    be played on Sunday.  In the B division, only two regular games 
    and the final will be played on Sunday.

6.  The regular A division games will probably be 3 12-minute
    periods.  The regular B division games will probably be either 
    3 10-minute periods or 2 20 or 25-minute running time periods.
    Ice will DEFINITELY be done before every "A" game and PROBABLY 
    before every "B" game (unless we run into time problems).

7.  The semi-finals and final of the "A" will be 3 15-minute periods.
    The final of the "B" will probably be 3 12-minute periods.
    Ice will DEFINITELY be done before these games.

8.  Some sort of award will be given to the winning
    and runner-up teams of the "A" and to the winner of the "B."  
    We're also trying to find out the whereabouts of the club trophy 
    that is engraved with the winner after these championships are 
    held.  Does anyone know of this trophy?

I think that's about it for now.  Again, we don't get final approval
until mid-September but we're 90% sure this is going to happen.
So, if you have any questions please feel free to ask.  Also, please
send a mailing address so we can send you an entry form if you
are interested.  I've already gotten several emails from interested
teams and we have yet to call other teams.  It looks like it's going
to happen and all of us at MIT are very excited about it!!

Thanks,
Jill Depto
email@hidden
MIT Women's Ice Hockey






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