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NEWS BLAST...Tryouts were well attended on April 5. Invitations are being issued by April 12. Pending decisions by players we've invited to join the teams, we MAY have unfilled roster positions on one or two teams. Interested candidates who missed the tryout should contact manager@spinnakers.org. Understand that we cannot add a player to a roster that has reached its target size. Doing so is unfair to the whole team. If we do have room, we will schedule a personal skills assessment.

Don't shrink girls hockey by joining a regional conglamorate. Start a community-based team in your town and create a new opportunity for more girls to enjoy the game. More hockey for more girls. Now there's a victory that means something!

Wish you had more ice time?
All members of the Stamford Spinnakers are invited and encouraged to participate in the
Stamford Youth Hockey Association's HOUSE LEAGUE.
Yes, that means playing with boys as your teammates and your opponents.
This is still the best way for a girl to become a great hockey player!

2008-09: Triple the Fun
Now the Spinnakers play in three age groups: U12, U14, and High School!
(Our high school team registers as U19, but covers all four years.)
HS Team Slide Show 2006-07 HS Team Slide Show 2007-08

Tryouts for all three teams were held on Saturday, April 5.
There will not be another tryout, but we may have vacancies,
depending on whether pending invitations are accepted.
In that event, we will schedule individual assessments during our
spring and summer sessions.

Some of these girls followed their brothers into youth hockey. Others learned to play in our spring and summer programs. We don't recruit our strength or acquire it through corporate mergers. We believe in developing it. A successful hockey season is one in which we improve from wherever we begin, with the emphasis on commitment, teamwork and sportsmanship. Community-based girls hockey is not the easy road to national prestige, but it makes this great sport available to more girls, and that's what we're about.
Every Spinnakers season is a Miracle.

Join us.
If you don't live in or around Stamford, start a program in your own town.
It will seem easier than you expect, mainly because it's so rewarding.

How many Spinnakers high school teams are there? Just one. This picture was taken at our 2004 reunion game.
We look forward to adding pictures of our new U12 & U14 players!

A Taste of Hockey?
New Initiative for Girls, Ages 6-10

Starting in mid-2008, the Spinnakers invite organized local groups of girls (Girl Scouts, school groups, etc.) ages 6-10, to come to the rink and try playing ice hockey.
For some, it may be the first and last time they ever play the game, but at least they can say they tried it.
For others, we hope it will be an introduction to their favorite sport.
(And we'll help them find their next opportunity to play.)
How can we do all this, you ask?
With the help of financial sponsors, we're buying 20 full sets of brand new hockey equipment, which we will lend to the girls.
Girls will have to provide their own skates. (No experience needed, but we recommend learning how to skate before trying ice hockey.)
There will be no charge for the experience, and the only catch is that we will need evidence of insurance and signed releases.
The games will be carefully supervised and, frankly, the girls will be more protected than they are in most other sports.
Interested? Contact manager@spinnakers.org.

We say we're about "more hockey for more girls" ...and we mean it.

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Girls Spring Hockey -- Girls Summer Clinics -- Terry Conners Rink -- SYHA -- USA Hockey --
U12 Travel Team Links: Current Schedule -- Current Roster
U14 Travel Team Links: Current Schedule -- Current Roster (coning soon)
High School (U19) Team Links: Current Schedule -- '07-08 -- '06-07 -- '05-06 -- '04-05 -- '03-04 -- '02-03 -- '01-02
Current Roster -- Alumnae -- Player Profiles -- Pictures

E-mail to Sherry Hynes, Program Manager