November News Update
I received via email some interesting news items recently:
- The JMK National Tournament is being held in South Australia next year, with the date being moved forward from October to June. An interesting rule change has also been introduced that bans all imports from playing in future JMK Tournaments.
- There is a proposal to run an U18 National Womens Camp at Newcastle in April, over a week, just like the very successful Peewee/Bantam/Midget camps. This camp would be an Invite Only camp to the top 40 National women players.
- There is also a proposal to run a National Girls Hockey Day, with activities running at every rink, hopefully at the same time. This is an event for women of all ages and skill levels to have a go at playing ice hockey in a safe environment.
- The Australian Womens Ice Hockey Series is being held at three venues on three weekens interspersed over the next few months - Canberra, Brisbane, and Penrith. Each team (I think there’s four?) will play two games during each two-day event.
- The National Womens Program website has been down for the past few weeks, so if you get a weird error message, you’ll know why. It’s a bit of a bummer, as there’s almost no information anywhere else on the Internet, apart from the emails floating around. The administrator was hoping to get it back up and running not long ago
so we wait with anticipation for its return. In the meantime, I’ll post stuff as I see it (like this update).
For further information on National Womens stuff, please contact Lyn Reynolds, who has graciously volunteered to be the NSW State Rep to the National Womens Council Board. Thanks Lyn, much appreciated!
Cheers,
- bec