by my count....

 43 women participated in the program

we had 32 practices of one kind or another, not counting skating practices with Kris F.

we went to 4 tournaments and the St Louis trip as well

Eagles/Raptors played 12 games each

Icehawks played 17 games (league, non-league and playoffs)

Georgie wins the 'more hockey is better award' - with at least 24 practices, plus 12 raptors games, plus 9 icehawks games, plus 6 tournament games, plus St Louis - over 50 times on the ice!

overall leaders:

Games played - Melanie, 36, Goals - Amy L., 24, Assists - Amy B., 12, Points - Amy L, 28

that's right - the channel 8 Morning Show - i.e., "Kickin' it with Kenny"  joined us for a special morning practice on the 22nd.  We had 4 separate 3 minute spots, with Kenny interviewing Maria, and later donning goalie gear to face breakaways and some 5 on 5 scrimmage.  look for the video clips here soon.

copy and paste this entire link into your browser - or click on the headline above. 

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?contentId=5554985&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=5.7.1

and - I just noticed - in this clip they cut away just before Karen scores on Kenny directly off the face-off.  She put the puck in just off the short side post - so Kenny, you've still got something to learn about cutting down those angles.

Two wins and a loss up in Windsor last weekend - well done!

Everybody will be practicing together on Wednesday nights.   Saturday nights will be used for games or practices/scrimmage whenever we can.

Ice Hawks = POWHA travel team - this team will have at least 10 POWHA games (5 of them away games), the end of the year POWHA tournament (3 to 4 games) plus several additional games like last year (Bob, Capitals, anybody else we can find). This rec level team is limited to people who firmly commit to traveling for the away games. There are no tryouts for the team, priority, if we have too many people wanting to play, will be given to those who have been to the POWHA tournament in the past. 

 Raptors = Eagles = NOWHO local game only teams - these two teams are equal in strength and you'll be assigned one of the teams after the beginning of the season. These teams will be playing 10 to 12 local games plus the NOWHO tournament (2 or 3 games). The Eagles and Raptors will have their own separate coaches for games. Again, if we can find other teams who will play us like we did last year this number of games will increase. More hockey is more better.

There's a local tournament sponsored by NOWHO in November.   We will be participating in the novice and rec divisions.

There is a big tournament held in Windsor Ontario that some of the Ice Hawks have gone to in the past.   Eve will likely be organizing a team for this tournament.  Mandy is interested in forming a team for a tournament in Florida in Jan.   If you're motivated to get people together for a tournament to play more games you can always do so.

kneeling (L to R):  Mary, Amy L., Libby, Meagan, Anna, Christina

standing (L to R):  Coach J.,  Laurie, Katie W., Lisa, Melanie, Sue, Maria, Amy B., Alicia, Tina and Baye

 not pictured:  Karen, Katie P., Katie F.

kneeling (L to R):  Christina, Amy L., Meagan, Melanie, Tina

Standing (L to R): Mandy, Veronica, Laurie, Coach J., Katie, Katie, Katie

not present:  Cynthia, Dasa, Natalie, Maria, Heather  

copyright: R. Cantale, 2007

kneeling (L to R):  Denise, Amy B., Baye, Peggy

standing (L to R): Roseanne, Coach Justin, Karen, Mikki, Nina, Eve, Betsy, Sue, Katie F., Coach Mike

not pictured:  Lisa, Libby, Maggie, Linda, Kelly

copyright R. Cantale, 2007

Front Row (L to R), Tanya, Sue W., Dorothea, Agent Ice, Sara G., Patti, Lissa, ?, ?, Karen

2nd Row (L to R): Tina, Sue R., Catherine, Coach J., Sue L., Annie, Sarah N., Sherrie, Chris, Carol, Rita, Coach Randy, Joe, Nina, Heddi  

Karen, Tina and Sue R. are the only 'Hawks still with the team in 2007-2008.

front row (L to R): Tina, Lisa, Andrea, Lauren, Julie, Karen, Arlene

standing (L to R): Betsy, Vicki, Meagan B., Katie P, Hayley, Sue, Eve, Crystal, Emma, Coach J., Paula