WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 226

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Forwarded Message: Women's Open Tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia
	by "Andria L. Hunter" 
  2) looking for hockey...
	by TheWall 

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Date: 	Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:52:57 -0400
From: "Andria L. Hunter" 
To: email@hidden
Subject: Forwarded Message: Women's Open Tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia
Message-ID: 

Here is a message from the organizer of the Women's Open
Ice Hockey Cup of Russia.  Please email (or phone) the
address listed below if you are interested in playing.
He didn't send any info about the cost, so you might
want to ask about that.

Andria

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 * Date: Apr 25 13:12:40 1996
 * From: email@hidden (Amik Nafte)

Andria,

I'm looking for women ice hockey players to play in the "Women's Open 
Ice Hockey Cup of Russia" in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the last week 
of June, 96.

This is the 11'th hour effort to put together a team from North 
America. I've been asked to help by the Organizational Committee of 
the tournament. This is the 5th year of the tournament. In the past 4 
years there always been a guest team from North America, and they hope 
to keep this tradition alive. I'll be calling on all my contacts in 
the USA and Canada, asking for interested players to contact me, yet 
this will reach only a small population. 

I'm asking for your help to deliver this message!

Information: 

The tournament has started in 1992 in St. Petersburg as "The White 
Nights Hockey Tournament", and during the 1994 competition was 
officially declared by the Russian Ice Hockey Federation as the 
"Women's Open Ice Hockey Cup of Russia". It is effectively the only 
club/team competition in Russia. Expected to participate 5 Russian 
teams. Invitations been sent to a number of European Hockey 
Federations/teams. In the past, has participated teams from Ukraine, 
Latvia, Germany, and the USA. The tournament is a part of the "White 
Nights Hockey Festival", which also includes competition for the 
old-timers. The tournament opening ceremonies Monday, June 24, 96. The 
closing on Friday, June 28, 96.

My name is Amik Nafte.  I'm acting on a behalf of the tournament's 
Organizational Committee headed by the President of North-Western 
Region of Russian Ice Hockey Federation, Mr. Leonid Mikhno. I'm one of 
the original founders of the White Nights tournament. People in the 
States and Canada may know me for some of my efforts to help organize 
women's ice hockey in Russia: organizing the Tourney of the Unified 
Team of Russia, Latvia, Ukraine to the USA and Canada in February of 
1993; and in March of 1994 - the tourney of the first Russian National 
Team to the USA and Canada; and bringing women's teams from the 
USA to White Nights, and the other tournaments in Russia in 92,93,94.

I'd need a firm commitment from players by May 15, else there'll 
be no team. 

   My e-mail: email@hidden
   my work phone: 212-770-4748
   my home phone/fax: 516-432-2855

A word of warning: the tournament will take place immediately after 
Russian Presidential elections in June. The country may be in the 
state of turmoil. This trip is somewhat adventurous.

Sincerely Amik.

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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:27:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: TheWall 
To: email@hidden
Cc: Multiple recipients of list 
Subject: looking for hockey...
Message-ID: 

  Hi, my best friend is moving to the Cincinatti area soon *sob*, and we 
have played on the same (boys)hockey team for two years.  Our problem is 
that next year she will be a midget and her parents will not let her play 
on a boys's midget team, so I am trying to find out if there is women's 
hockey anywhere (well...relatively nearby) near Cincinatti.  If anyone 
has any helpful info, send it along!

Heather->thewall, goalie girl who wants to be like mike(richter)

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