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Women-in-Hockey Digest    Friday, January 28 2000    Volume 01 : Number 590



In this issue:

   Re: Recruiting international hockey players for US college teams
   Shannon Miller
   RE: Shannon Miller
   Globe and Mail on Women's Hockey
   NWHL TV Coverage
   Women's B tournaments?

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:44:48 EST
From: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Recruiting international hockey players for US college teams

In a message dated 1/27/00 1:02:37 AM Central Standard Time, 
email@hidden writes:

<< The scene has become the norm for Miller over the past 18 months, while 
she has been recruiting a dazzling array of international stars for the 
fledgling program at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where she is the 
head coach.  >>

This approach to filling available college scholarships and team slots on a 
US collegiate team seems more suitable for the professional athletic arenas.  
As the mother of a young female hockey player who has as her goal a  college 
hockey scholarship, I feel that recruitment of international stars reduces 
the chances of  attaining that goal for all the girls out there who share my 
daughter's dream.  Is winning and being #1 the end-all?  
How do the rest of you feel about this?

Debbie    #49's Mom

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:53:09 -0700
From: "Erickson, Pamela J (Pamela)** CTR **" 
Subject: Shannon Miller

I guess what really bothers me about this whole story, is that we have lots
of American girls who deserve an opportunity to play college hockey and to
attend a good school.

These tactics by pulling in players from abroad makes it even tougher for
our kids to not only get a good education while they play for a top notch
team.

We try to offer our kids a good program throughout their high school years
and tell them of the opportunities growing every day and to hear that those
opportunities are going to non-citizens who may even leave the program to
play in the Olympics for their own country and may not even graduate, it
just seems a shame.

Just my opinion.

Pam Erickson
Colorado Xtreme Girls Ice Hockey Team

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:19:29 -0500
From: "Roehr, Susan N" 
Subject: RE: Shannon Miller

I don't know...it seems to me that this argument (about preserving hockey
programs for U.S. citizens) could all too easily be bent to reserve all
university resources for U.S. citizens.  There are surely tons of
non-American students using university funds to get educations here, some on
scholarship, and they got those spots at the university because they were
the best in their academic field.  Should a parent be able to say, "My kid
tried harder than all them in math class, it's not fair that a European
student could come over and take her math scholarship just because she's a
better mathematician."

I guess I don't find it surprising that non-U.S. citizen athletes are
becoming part of women's hockey.  This happens in every area of NCAA sports,
I guess.  I enjoy watching Svetlana Abrosimova play ball for UConn, and
think it's pretty fair to say our university wouldn't have won the men's
NCAA soccer championship without Aleksey Korol and Yuri Lavrinenko.  Sports
Illustrated just did a big spread on a basketball player from Mexico. 
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, it just seems like it's a
part of most if not all college sports these days. 

And think what would happen if Canada said, "Hey, you Yankees can't come
into our schools and play our game."  More than one American NHL player went
to school in Canada to master the sport.  


Si.

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:01:32 -0800
From: "Phil Cottrell" 
Subject: Globe and Mail on Women's Hockey

Popularity of women's hockey spurs new hockey schools:

http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/Hockey/20000128/SHOTO.html

Phil, Victoria, BC

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:17:07 -0600
From: "Karen Harker" 
Subject: NWHL TV Coverage

Does anybody know if any cable stations are covering the NWHL?  I'd love to see some games.



Karen R. Harker
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-5073
http://www.swmed.edu/library/

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:17:36 -0500
From: "Andrea R. Johnson" 
Subject: Women's B tournaments?

Does anyone happen to know of any quality women's B tournaments in the
MI, MN, IL, or WI areas?

Andrea

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