This weekend, on Saturday, April 2, the Yorkton Bantam 鈥楢鈥� Crushers and Melville Minor Hockey will be hosting a 鈥楩emale Hockey Jamboree鈥� at the Yorkton Farrell Agencies Arena from 7:00-8:30pm.
All current and prospective female hockey players from the Parkland area that are eligible to play minor hockey next season are invited to attend in order for female hockey coaches to gauge how many local area players there are. 鈥淲hat we鈥檙e doing is, we鈥檙e hosting this female hockey jamboree at the Farrell Agencies Arena and it鈥檚 kind of a free skate for the girls, just so we can see how many girls there are that want to play female hockey,鈥� said Bantam Crusher head coach Fred Schrader. 鈥淲e know there are enough girls to put together bantam and midget teams, but we鈥檙e trying to get a pee wee team started in the area as well.鈥�
The hopeful pee wee team will play in the 小蓝视频 Sask Female Hockey League (SSFHL) Pee Wee Division with six other teams and would be based out of Melville, with Yorkton 小蓝视频 the home for the Bantam team and Springside/Churchbridge the home of the Midget club. 鈥淲e鈥檙e hoping to get the pee wee team going so that we can continue to build on the growth of female hockey in the area,鈥� mentioned Schrader, adding that there seems to be enough interest at the moment to say that the Pee Wee team is almost a definite yes. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know the exact numbers, but I鈥檝e been talking to Darrell Halarewich out of Melville and he thinks there will be enough interest in the Yorkton and Melville area to start a pee wee girls鈥� team so that鈥檚 great.鈥�
Schrader says that following the female hockey jamboree there will be a brief parent session where coaches will answer any and all questions about female hockey.
In addition, interested players and parents of prospective players are encouraged to contact Schrader at (306) 621-7609 should they find themselves in need of more information prior to the jamboree.
