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Women-in-Hockey Digest Friday, August 20 1999 Volume 01 : Number 482
In this issue:
Women's League Details
Re: New Women's League Details
Try-outs
Re: How far are have we come?
looking for players--NJ, PA
Massachusetts Senior Womens team seeks...
New Women's League
breakout pass
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:57:53 -0700
From: "Phil & Debbie Cottrell"
Subject: Women's League Details
OK, I should have done a little more looking...
Here's the URL for the story on the new women's league, the NWHL:
http://www.canoe.ca/HockeyWomen/aug19_wom.html
Phil
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:07:07 -0400
From: "Cindy Goodman"
Subject: Re: New Women's League Details
This isn't really a "new" league. It just got renamed and added a couple more teams. It was called the Central Ontario Womens League which has been around for years and boasted half the Team Canada players for quite some time. It's where the Ontario players honed their skills for playing with the National team. When last year it added to it teams from Quebec and Ottawa they decided it needed a new name to better reflect all the teams.
This is a very exciting step for womens hockey and it's getting pretty good exposure as well. Corporate sponsorship would be a huge boost to the league. Beatrice Foods donated sponsorship money, but to only one team in the league, the Toronto Aeros. Which was very nice for them but didn't do much to help the other teams in the league. If this newly named NWHL is going to work, corporate sponsors need to give money to the league to be distributed equally or the league won't survive. Well, one team will, the Beatrice Aeros.
Cheers, Cindy
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: email@hidden
Subject: Try-outs
Hello all,
Just an update on try-outs for the Renegades
(in the SSWHL in Mass).
Our try-outs will be Thursday, August 26th
at 7:10pm in Randolph, MA.
Please email me if you would like to try out.
- -Jill Depto
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:41:07 -0600
From: "Erickson, Pamela J (Pamela)** CTR **"
Subject: Re: How far are have we come?
How ironic this thread comes today! As we with the Colorado Xtreme 19U Tier
1 team try to get the program rolling again for the third season we still
struggle with getting kids to join.
For the last two seasons we have only missed attending Nationals by losing
to Aspen by one goal. We had 3 team members attend the National Junior
Olympic camp in Lake Placid this summer. The first year we had 5 graduate
and 3 go on to play college hockey (1 at a Div 1 school and 2 at Div 3
schools) and this last year one graduating going on to play at Ohio State.
Our program continues to grow and get better. With the help of the list's
advice on interviewing coaches, we were able to get a top notch, award
winning coach (who by the way used to coach Junior A teams).
And still I get messages from parents (of one of the top notch kids) send me
messages about not playing because the boys teams will get her further. I
did mention that exposure will be tough and that the talent pool available
in MN and the East is huge. Below is an exerpt. I am looking for what kind
of advice I can give this parent to help them decide to play and commit to
this girls team, or should I just let it drop!?!?!? See below a short
exerpt:
dad says:............
we're still debating whether daughter will play for the Colorado Xtreme or
not. daughter will play hockey and lacrosse for high school (IN COLORADO
ONLY BOYS HS HOCKEY).
even though -my daughter- hasn't played on a boys team much recently, i
think you'd agree that daughter made it to lake placid because of what they
learned playing w/the guys, not because of the girls team. daughter is very
competitive, and the only way she'll improve is to play with better players.
due to our location in CO, i believe the way for a girl to get better at the
game is to play w/the guys. sure, minnesota, CT, MA, etc., have had the
numbers long enough to have great women's programs. it's just not here yet.
.................
So, this is how far we have come. Like many of you, still struggling to get
a program going, dealing with the long drives, community support, etc. Just
think where we all would be if we just gave up. I guess we'd have never won
the Gold in Nagano. Unless maybe they let women play on the men's team.
But that ain't gonna happen either.
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:02:55 -0400
From: Trisha Thorme
Subject: looking for players--NJ, PA
Hi,
The Queenston Hockey Club, a senior women's team,
is looking for a few players. Our home rink is
Ice Land in Lawrence Township, NJ, convenient to
south-central Jersey and Bucks County, PA.
We practice Tuesday nights at 9:15 p.m. for an hour
and a half, September 14 to mid-April. We'll also
play games on weekends.
Want more information? E-mail me or check out our
under-construction website:
http://sport.nj.com/sport/queenstonhockeyclub
It's a fun, energetic + pretty new team. Join us!
Trisha
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:08:29 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: Massachusetts Senior Womens team seeks...
To share practice ice with other team.
We are a Boston and West of Boston area Womens team looking for ADDITIONAL
practice ice. If your team HAS practice ice on Mondays, Tuesdays, or
Thursdays, anytime between the hours of 7-10PM and you are looking to spilt
costs with another team, we are interested in picking up a second practice
night.
Please email email@hidden or call number below if interested:
617-312-3069 (V.M. - leave message)
Thanks
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:53:03 -0700
From: Ingrid Moon
Subject: New Women's League
I happened upon this yesterday. Apparently, the NWHL is going to be VERY
limited (not associated with NHL) to start but should grow if interest is
high. Canada only for now.
http://www.nhl.com/news/aug/081999women.htm
Ingrid
>>>>>>>>>>
I glanced at a copy of the National Post today and noticed an article on a
new women's league, including teams from Quebec and Ontario. Can't remember
too many of the details, nobody's getting paid, but supposedly there is some
corporate support and the hope that it will lay the groundwork for a pro
league after the 2002 Olympics.
Anyone with the full story or a URL?
Phil, Victoria, BC
Phil moderates e-mail lists on the Victoria Salsa Hockey Club and British
author Nick Hornby. Check them out at: www.onelist.com
http://www.ingridmoon.com
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:25:09 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: breakout pass
Hi -
I recently attened a hockey camp where the coach was explaining the breakout
play to us.
He had the wingers get in position right around the hash marks, but about 1.5
- - 2 feet away from the boards, ready to receive a stick-to-stick pass.
I asked if we should stand with our butt agaisnt the board, and one skate
against the board (as I have been instructed to do by numerous coaches in the
past) in case the puck comes up the boards, we can pick it up off our skate,
it will bounce to our stick, and off we go!
The coach's response was "Why would you EVER want to pass the puck up the
boards?"
I told him that while I agree that stick-to-stick pass is best in an ideal
world, it is not always posssible - i.e. sometimes there is no time to set
it up, (if i'm on D and being chased into the corner / behind the net by a
player who is much faster than me, i'll just whip it around the boards - to
the far side as hard as I can - my wingers know to anticapte this when they
see the pcuk going deep, and me going after it. ) or even a pass intened to
be stick on stick can be misfired and bounce off the boards. (I play on a
senior women's rec team.)
Then he went on a tyrade on how he is teaching, and this is his way, etc,
etc. And if anyone on his team EVER made a breakout pass by shooting it up
or whipping it around the boards, they would not see any ice time at least
for the rest of the game. He went on to tell me that a pass up or around the
boards is dead wrong etc.
Any coaches out there with opinions on this?
Thanks.
Jill
# 77 LI Hurricanes
p.s. The coach's name and hockey camp are being withheld.
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