Bantams: My Youth Hockey Career

Being girls of the ages fourteen to eighteen we did not know how to react. We have never in our life went to school and heard all these headlines about how the program we worked so hard to build is not going to make it in our county. Knowing we had no support from anyone besides our coaches and families led us to constantly being down. We were continuously mocked of from higher ranked teams, even if we won a game. All that proceeded in our heads were that how can people think so small of a group of teenage girls. No one wanted to be last in our division anymore, but we didn't have faith in ourselves as a result of no one having confidence in us.

Cole Holbrook and Devin Reich stated the reason for their success was just knowing each other which made them play with confidence. Really stressing the fact that playing together last year was so important in building their chemistry. When asked how close the two of them are Devin said “practically brothers.” I asked Cole and Devin what they plan to improve on from now until the state competition they responded with “practicing a lot” and “practicing with other state competitors. When asked about their plan for state Cole responded with “our goal is to make the opponents cry.” The Talon and myself congratulate Ty, Cole, and Devin on their success and wish them the best of luck as they prepare for state in the

All the work paid off. During the 2016 national competition in May, I ranked in the top 9 percent of 1,308 competitors, the highest individual performance ever posted by Decatur High School. I’m now team captain and have coaxed a lot of promising freshmen to join.

I was a new kid that was on the team this year. I knew a lot of the players on that team, so my family and I talked about me playing there. I was so happy that they said I would be able to! Even know that I was the new kid to this team everyone treated me great, and it was like I already played with them for previous years.

Hockey has always had an eminent role in the ideology of identity and nationalism within Canada, from Paul Henderson’s monumental goal in the 1972 Summit Series to Sidney Crosby’s 2014 Olympic Gold medal goal it has shaped Canada as a country. Over time, while the love and pride Canadians show for the game has not changed, the participation or involvement of children in hockey has decreased. The decrease of participants in hockey in Canada is due to the fact that hockey is becoming increasingly more expensive for families to afford. With “more than a third of parents with kids currently playing hockey say it’s become unaffordable” (Global News) this statement includes equipment costs, registration fees, and the cost of travel to and from games

I really didn’t do to well hitting but the rest of my team did and that’s what meant a lot to me and watching my teammates making plays and working as hard as the possible can play in that field made me supper happy. It came down the last inning and we kind of just fell apart in the field but we still have to fight and play hard and just because we are losing doesn’t mean we stop playing. The game finally came to the end and the seniors started getting emotional and then everyone on the team started to get a little emotional it was a very hard loss for the whole team and the coaches. After knowing that we had a great season the team got together for one big last eagles on three for the

We won we are going to state! In May 2015 my high school baseball team finally beat St. Thomas Moore in the regional championship to go play in the state tournament in Sioux Falls, that was something that the Winner/Colome baseball team has not done since 2009. So on May 30th 2015 we headed to the State tournament in Sioux Falls, and in the first game we played Dell Rapids. We ended up having to play 13 innings in about 95 degree weather we ended up winning to go to the championship where we would play West Central the team that was favored to win the championship. I am going to tell you a little about the plans, the expectations and what really happened to our baseball team last spring.

The first year I played goalie. It was a lot of fun, but it also hurt. The first game of the season we played at the Avanti's dome. We had a team meeting right before the start of the game. The coaches asked who wanted to be goalie, when no one who raised their hand, I did. Even though I was putting on the extra pads I got very excited

Ice hockey has been around since the late eighteen hundreds, and it has developed tremendously from then to the present. Hockey is played by almost everyone; young, old, big, small, boys, girls. The age group that has been under major controversy is the young players, aging between twelve and fourteen years old. Prior to 2008 kids ranging in this age were able to engage in full body contact and body checking, however; the rule was changed so that kids cannot begin body checking until the age of fifteen. This rule change was ignited by both doctors and parents that were watching their young players get sidelined by both major and minor, head and back injuries. The rule change has caused much controversy on whether it was effective or just another rule in place to please the crowd. A strenuous research study was conducted by Carolyn Emery of the University of Calgary, Alberta, says that it does in fact lessen the possibility for injury when hitting is introduced at a slightly later age (qtd. in Marcus). Body checking is a large part of hockey and one of the reasons why an immense number of people participate in the sport, but USA Hockey made the correct decision when looking to protect its players by waiting to introduce body checking. Safety should be the number one concern in any sport; protecting today 's players for tomorrow.

It was my freshman year in high school. We had a pretty good wrestling team and we made it to the regional duals and the four best teams in our district were there and the team who has made it to state wrestling the past three years and we had to beat all three teams in order to make it to state which was going to be difficult.

The games that I had were beyond exciting. I had four games in total. My team had successfully won 2 games. After those two wins, me and my team did not have that much success. We got third place in the whole tournament.

I was one of the two girls who were seniors. I was suppose to be a pillar and a strong player for our team. I didn’t realize then but a strong player doesn’t just mean strong scores. That seasons I really grew as a player. I went from scoring 43 to my high score of 113, which is still on the low end but it gave me hope and was a large step for me.

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Our team practice everyday for 2 hours and our record was 23-1. We were the first team ever to win in our age division to ever win for St.Mary’s. We had a hard time in the beginning of the season. One of our best players injured her knee. She was running towards the loose ball and her knee twisted. She was out for the rest of the season. Looking back on it made me better because I learned how hard you to to practice or try to achieve your goal.

Our first tournament toke place in Van Horn, Iowa. Personally, I was a little nervous. We got first place and qualified for State, I'm very excited to go! Our next tournament we travelled to Ankeney, Iowa. We got first in this tournament to! The weekend after that we went to New Hampton, we prepared because we knew tit may be a little tougher. In this tournament we lost a few matches but we got first again! Our next tournament toke place in LaPorte City. After that we went to one more tournament in Dike New Hartford, and got the win again! Now off to state March 19, we travelled to Ankeny were the state championship would take place. We had a great day we went to the gold bracket! It was a great experience playing with my friends and seeing teams we haven't seen before.