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Women-in-Hockey Digest Friday, May 8 1998 Volume 01 : Number 202
In this issue:
SuperSeries Tournament
re: superseries tournament
Teens skating with Seniors
Senior Women
Re:
Re: Teens skating with Seniors
Cammi's Reception
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Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 23:41:07 -0700
From: Alan Chim
Subject: SuperSeries Tournament
Just wanted to let you all know about the 1998 Vancouver Hockey SuperSeries
tournament.
This tournament has featured NHL stars such as Joe Sakic, Paul Kariya,
Alaexander Daigle, Jarome Iginla and a host of NHL 1st round draft picks.
There are still openings in the senior womens (players born 1977-1981) and
junior womens (players born 1981-1986) divisions. Tournament dates are
July 6-11.
For more information you can call them toll free 1-800-877-7766
Alan.
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Date: 07 May 1998 15:43:58 -0400
From: Jan de Regt
Subject: re: superseries tournament
I don't know about the rest of you, but when I see a "senior women"
category, I think more along the line of players born 1977 - 1900 or
so!!!
I'd like to make a case for calling girl's hockey exactly to reduce
the amibguity. Women's hockey will be exactly that, and girl's hockey
will be exactly that!
What do you think?
Jan.
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Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 17:39:22 EDT
From: FastSkater
Subject: Teens skating with Seniors
Hi everyone:
I would appreciate your help on a rather important question. You can respond
via the list or e-mail me privately.
Does your STATE governing association place any restriction on Senior teams
from allowing teenage players (midget or even pee-wee) from participating on
senior team rosters ? In other words, does your hockey governing body FORCE
15-19 year olds to play midget instead of senior hockey even if they so choose
?
By definition, according to USA Hockey, a senior women's team is open to ANY
age skater.
I'm greatfull for as many responses as possible between now and Monday
including an identification of what state and district your team participates
in.
Thanks,
Dave Logan
Coach, Illinois Storm Women's Hockey
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Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 19:59:46 -0400
From: "dduda"
Subject: Senior Women
I completely agree with you, Jan.I don't know how many times I have seen
advertisements around at different rinks where I live advertising women's
hockey teams needing players and come to find out it is 19 years old and
under. I have been angry at this for a long time. I am glad someone else
has the same opinion as I.
Diane
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Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 20:05:40 -0400
From: Debbie Minden
Subject: Re:
> I'd like to make a case for calling girl's hockey exactly to reduce
> the amibguity. Women's hockey will be exactly that, and girl's hockey
> will be exactly that!
Jan,
You are moving into the dangerous waters of PC - political correctness, not
Progressive Conservative for all you Canadians out there. What is a girl,
and what is a woman, and are you being demeaning if you mix it up. As far
as I am concerned, call them anything, just not late for the game! In some
sports, tennis and figure skating for example, women have earned a ranking,
and age doesn't have anything to do with it.
Debbie
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Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 22:31:02 -0400
From: Louise
Subject: Re: Teens skating with Seniors
At 05:39 PM 5/7/98 EDT, FastSkater wrote:
>Does your STATE governing association place any restriction on Senior teams
>from allowing teenage players (midget or even pee-wee) from participating on
>senior team rosters ? In other words, does your hockey governing body
FORCE
>15-19 year olds to play midget instead of senior hockey even if they so
choose?
I haven't been in the States for a couple of seasons, so my information
might not be up-to-date. Mid-Am District (Ohio, Western Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, and Indiana, I think ...) does not have any rule like this. I
know because I used to register the Ohio State University teams as Senior
with USA Hockey, and we always had freshmen players who were 18 and 19.
Do you have a rule like this in your state? Does it mean that there are
some girls in small towns in our state whose only choice (if they aren't
blessed with activist parents who will volunteer to start and run girls'
teams) would be to play with boys, if they are prevented from joining an
adult women's team?
I think that one could make a very good case for such a rule being
inappropriately restrictive to the growth of the sport, in areas where very
few teenage girls are playing yet. I'm thinking of a final game I saw at
the Brampton (Ontario) tournament this spring, in a category which the
Brampton organizers called Open Recreational. One team was from Charlotte
NC, and the other was from Atlanta GA. The mix of ages and skill levels on
both teams suggested to me that probably those teams are the first female
teams in their areas, and that by putting together some teenage girls and
some adult women, each of those groups was able to get enough players to
experience this wonderful tournament. Surely that must be more conducive
to the eventual expansion of female hockey in those cities to all age
groups, than having each teenage girl player play on a boys' team in a
boys' league, where she might only see the other girls at hand-shaking time.
In a city where there already exist girls' age-group leagues for both
competitive and recreational players, or where there *could* be, if an
adult league weren't recruiting teenagers, then I can understand wanting
some way to encourage the teenagers to stay in the age-group leagues. I'm
not sure it would be fair to enact a state-wide rule preventing all
teenagers from playing Senior, though, because there must be towns in every
state (except maybe Minnesota!) where girls don't yet have the playing
opportunities in their own age group.
Louise
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Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:12:21 EDT
From: NicciLH
Subject: Cammi's Reception
I was watching the Skate TV championships last night and they introduced the
judges as all being legend olympians. They all got applause untile they
introduced Cammi Granato, she recieved a really big cheer and a standign
ovation. She is still the big ambassader for hockey and truley a legend in
her own right.
Nicci
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