Ladies open ringette provides fun atmosphere

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Strathmore Ice open ladies ringette team is always looking for fun, energetic players to play in a competitive league.
“I see the potential of all the parents in our community, so I kind of felt I wanted to have a team. We just threw the word out and we got a good response,” said Kim Proust, team organizer. “So we had a team last year, we could not get into a league (as) we got organized too late. We played as many teams from Calgary as we could just to kind of see where we would fit.”
The team has different mixture of players that start at age 18 and go up.
“We have a variety of players, players that have never skated before, that have played (and ones that) coached hockey,” said Proust. “It’s a really good group of ladies. We went into the Women’s Ringette Association of Calgary (WRAC) league and we’re in the ‘D’ pool. The teams that are in that league are from Calgary, Airdrie, Cochrane, Indus and Chestermere.”
Proust wants to emphasize that the league is fun more than anything and a way to socialize with other moms that have kids in the sport.
“A lot of people on the team have more than one daughter that are in the sport or in hockey as well. So if we can find an hour a week to get together, it’s quite lovely,” said Proust.
The ladies team plays all their home ice times on Friday night from 7-8 p.m. at the Rockyford arena.
The schedule also consists of games in Chestermere on Monday nights, Airdrie on Sunday nights and Cochrane on Tuesday nights.
They are tentatively trying to get moms out to a ‘try-it’ session sometime after Christmas.