WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 77

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Hey all..
	by Alan Chim 

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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:04:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Chim 
To: email@hidden
Subject: Hey all..
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Hi all.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Alan Chim, and I'm from Richmond, 
B.C. CANADA.  I've played minor hockey ever since I was 5 years old, and 
played up until Midget.  Afterwards, I started coaching my sister in 
Ringette, and also worked at the UBC Hockey school this past summer as an 
Instructor.  This past year, the Richmond Girls Ice Hockey League was 
formed, and I coached a Midget Team (12-17 years) in which we basically 
played exhibition games all year since there are no established leagues 
over here for younger ladies to play in.  I've put up a web page at 
http://www.wimsey.com/~jchim if you're interested in obtaining more 
information about our organization.

Next year, I'm going to be coaching a younger Peewee A team (8 to 12 years) 
that will be participating in the newly formed Lower Mainland Female Ice 
Hockey League.  This league will have three age divisions, Atom (7 and 
under), Peewee (8 to 12) and Midget (12-17).  These divisions will be 
tiered Rep "A" and Rec "B".

However, I'm definitely interested in playing against some non-local 
teams, and we have a lot of ice available up here, so if anybody out 
there who is coaching either a Midget or Peewee team and is interested in 
coming down here for a weekend and playing a couple games, we would most 
certainly accomodate.

Although, we've had a healthy year with 71 players in our association, we 
had trouble convincing a lot of the more talented Ringette players to 
switch over to hockey.  A lot of these players really wanted to play, but 
couldn't handle two sports and wouldn't give up Ringette.  Frankly, I 
don't see why this is so.  Ringette has been removed as a "core" sport 
from the Canadian Government and has, as such, received a cut back in 
funding.  And women's hockey is big now with scholarships available, 
equipment manufactureres making equipment designed for women, and Women's 
Hockey officially recognized as an Olympic sport.

Anyways, if anyone had any thoughts about how to encourage players to 
take up hockey, please let me know.

In addition, I would like to find out if anyone out there has had any 
luck obtaining corporate sponsors for their associations/teams.  I have 
found this task fairly difficult with women's hockey, although Esso 
provided two of our teams with a set of jerseys and socks absolutely free.

Also, I was reading through the archives of this list, and someone was 
looking for a good hockey school.  Although I worked for UBC Hockey 
School and should be plugging them :-) I've heard that there is a good 
hockey school up in Osoyoos.  Apparently, the instruction is quite good 
with several national team members instructing there.  If you want 
further info, let me know.

Alan.
email@hidden

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