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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:07:13 -0400
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11th annual Metro Cup Womens Hockey tournament
June 22-23 weekend

Spaces available for individuals...even a team or two!!!



House league, recreational and competitive divisions
Team, group and individual entries
All games at Chesswood Arenas
Four game guarantee...$40/player.
Two games Saturday between noon and 5pm
Two games Sunday between 9am and 2pm
Teams confirmed from Michigan, New York, Manitoulin Island
Barrie, Oshawa, Brantford and Kitchener
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From: "Dan Guard" 
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Subject: Polar Bear news update
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:05:32 -0700
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Over the past weekend, the Polar Bears participated in the USA Hockey Inline
Regional qualifier in Fort Collins, Colorado. Those who have followed this
saga are aware that last year, as the first all-girls' team ever to play in
a Regional, the P'Bears were largely a mite diviison team playing up in the
Squirt Division (as the youngest division offered). Last year, as the August
issue of American Hockey Magazine noted, they went 0-4, and failed to score
a single goal in the tournament. This year, with all the girls in the
'89-'93 range, they were much better suited to play vs. the boys.

In their three games, the girls played extremely well vs. a good tournament
team from Colorado Springs, the host team from Fort Collins, and the Boys'
team (the 'Hawks') from El Paso...vs. the Colorado teams both games were 1-1
with six minutes left in each game. Couple of good plays, and good breaks
for the opposition, two good, well coached opponents pulled the games away
at the end. The girls never gave up in either one. Brittany played stellar
in goal, giving up only 12 points in all three games total. The 1-6 amd 1-5
scores were a far cry from the 0-10 and 0-12 results from last year.

The crowning achievement came when the girls played their own Nations-Tobin
League  male counterparts, the Hawks. The guys were also a young team, like
our girls, and they had taken a 4-3 exhibition win over the girls in El Paso
the previous Monday evening. The girls have had to endure much of the usual
negativity any time they have outplayed the guys, as the two teams were 2-2
in four such practice games over the last two months. In the tourney tilt,
the girls utterly intimidated the boys, winning by a score of 4-1.

All the girls, even the 'role' players, played above their skill level in
the final game. The coach's job is to now translate that confidence they
displayed when they 'knew' they could beat the other team into accepting the
same challenge even when they are uncertain about their abilities.

One of the parents from the (eventual champion) Colo Springs team shared
with us that their son scoffed at first when he was made aware that he would
be playing against an all-girls' team. His father explained to him that he
had seen their (the girls) first game, that these girls were all as good as
Stephanie (the pretty good girl skater on this kids' own team) and if he
"wasn't serious about them as an opponent, they would probably kick his
butt." Apparently, after the game, this kid related to the father that he
was right, these girls could really play the game.

The Polar Bears will now head into a five week training cycle, to prepare
for Nationals (July 31-August 4). We have just learned that teams from
Portland, Oregon, and (somewhere in) Virgina have signed up to play. The
coach from our Regional champion Colorado Springs team relates that he is
also putting together a league team to play in the Girls' Diviison at
Nationals.

Game on...hope to see as many of you as we can.. if not at Nationals, then
somewhere the next time, out on the blue floor...


and BIG congratulations to Ms. Hunter on her outstanding accomplishment in
playing for the Canadian National Inline team in the FIRS worlds! Way to go!

We will be watching the World's results with a high level of excitement!

-Dan, Caitlin, and all the little Polar Bears, headed to Alpharetta, GA,
from El Paso, Texas...