I am a hockey parent. My daughter, Whitney , plays for the San Jose Jr. Lady Sharks 16u team. This was their greatest season yet...quarterfinals at Nationals. Whitney has been playing for 12 years. My son, Doug, also plays for the CAL Berkeley club team.
For the past 2 years I have been researching a book about the development of girl's/women's hockey in California. I have also written a children's book called Girls Don't Play Hockey. I have not had the time to whip the manuscript into shape for publication yet. That will happen this summer. I, myself, played on a women's recreational team in Fresno, CA (the worst member of the team, but had a blast for 3 years. I started playing when I was 46). I also perform stories about girl's/women's hockey.
We haven't had much discussion on the women-in-hockey list lately, so
I'm wondering who is here, and what you've been up to. Why not
introduce yourself to the list, or tell us how your hockey season has
been. Are you a player, a parent, a fan, or an organizer of female
hockey? Or all of the above? Is your season finished yet? What
were your season highlights?
I've had an unusually quiet hockey season. After many years as a
board member, a coach, convenor of a girls-only FUNdamentals
(Initiation) program, and contributor to provincial-governing-body
meetings, I stepped down last spring from all those
responsibilities. And my hockey-playing daughter is away at
university now, too busy with her studies to play more than the
occasional pick-up game.
So I've gone to the rink once a week to play in my senior
recreational league, and that was it. Playing with friends (the
nucleus of my team has been together much longer than my six seasons
with them) still continues to be a joy, and I take comfort in seeing
many players older than myself still playing. I still put away my
gear every spring, although every September I think to myself "maybe
next year I should play summer hockey and this will be easier".
Last weekend I watched a Midget game in the big Brampton tournament,
and realized it was probably the first game of any kind that I'd
watched all season. I loved leafing through the program,
recognizing names of people I'd played with, played against, cheered
for, and coached. What a wonderful community we've built!
Louise
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