We are an adult women's hockey program that practices and plays at the Cleveland Hts Recreation Center.  We provide beginner instruction as well as challenging league and tournament play for more advanced players.

the POWHA schedule for the Icehawks and Falcons is mostly set - take a look, and we'll get the rest up as it is finalized.

For the 2009-2010 season, we will be fielding the following teams:

 Icehawks - a travel team participating in the PA/OH Women's Hockey Organization (POWHA)

Falcons - a POWHA exhibition team - no travel, but will play the POWHA teams that come into town to play the Icehawks (so more folks can play more games!)(thanks Laurie)

Eagles and Raptors and Griffins(?)- participating in the Cleveland area's local league, the Northeast Ohio Women's Hockey Organization (NOWHO) .  These teams will play each other, as well as Mentor, Strongsville and hopefully, the Momsters from Gilmour.

 This site provides information (contacts, schedules, rosters, results) for everything going on in the Cleveland Hts Women's Program.  The calendar here has all the games and practices listed.  The 'POWHA' schedule lists all the Icehawks games (both league and exhibition) and games for the Falcons as well.  The 'NOWHO' schedule lists all the games for both the Eagles and Raptors.  When tournament rosters and schedules are available, they will be added under the 'tournaments' division.  Rosters for the Icehawks, Eagles and Raptors can be found by clicking on the team name under 'Teams'.  To look at game scores - please click on 'schedule' and then the appropriate division (NOWHO, POWHA or tournament).  To see the recap/coach's comment, please click on the score of any game.

There's a ton of new stuff happening with the 3rd team, etc, so hang in there and we'll get it all posted ASAP.

 To contact us, send email to chwomenshockey@gmail.com with any questions.

NOWHO SEASON OPENER HOCKEY PARTY

Saturday, October 3, 2009

2:30 p.m. at the Mentor Ice Rink

The Northeast Ohio Women’s Hockey Organization will be having its season opener party at the Mentor Ice Rink this year.  Women from all NOWHO teams are invited to come and play two games of hockey, socialize, eat snacks and have a good time to start off this year’s season.  

All players from Cleveland Heights, Kent, Mentor, Strongsville and Gilmour will be mixed up and divided into two teams based on skill level so that the teams are equal in strength.  The first pair of games is played at 3:30 and 3:45 p.m. The losing teams of the first set of games play again at 4:45 with the winning teams facing off at 5 p.m.   Beverages, snacks, and pizza will be provided by NOWHO.

Please let your team’s NOWHO representative know if you can attend by September 28th.  There is no charge for this event!

If you see this notice and are not yet playing in any on any of the women’s hockey teams, please contact the NOWHO league president Maria at smurph0983@gmail.com to be put in touch with the appropriate team manager.  Or show up to the event and meet the teams in person.

Cost will be $10 per person.

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

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

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.

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