Stamford Spinnakers The Girls & Women's Ice Hockey Association    of Stamford, Connecticut		www.spinnakers.org Since 1998
ICE HOCKEY Fun, Competitive Women's Travel Team
The Spinnakers became a Women's Ice Hockey Team in late 2009! ...and we're ready to schedule for 2010-11. Interested in playing?  We're interested in hearing from you. Contact manager@spinnakers.org. APPLICATION FORM     SCHEDULE     ROSTER
Update, 5/14/10: Our women's team will have its second season in 2010-11, but it will be another transition year. A women's team does not enjoy the youth rate at the City's rink, and most of our recently emancipated members are in fee-shock now that they are paying their own way, so we could not afford to renew our contract with Terry Conners Rink.  We'll have to play a shorter season, and--even though we know better--increase our game/practice ratio.  We'll do more tournaments and more away games.  We'll pick up practice time when we can.  (We're happy to share costs with opponents, since we probably can't offer return games in Stamford.)  The good news is that shortening the season and devoting more of it to games than practices is in line with the feedback from last season's members! We're still a USA Hockey program, so each member should register at www.usahockeyregistration.com and forward her confirmation to manager@spinnakers.org.

The Spinnakers program was created in 1998 to promote girls hockey in Stamford by supporting it throughout Fairfield County.  The first season of Girls Spring Hockey involved 102 girls, ages 7-17, from all over the county.  The program continued for ten years, involving about 150 players in most years.  The Stamford Spinnakers, a winter team for high school girls, was formed out of that spring league in September 1998, and continued until 2009.  At its height, it fielded two rosters, A and B.  The team regularly competed in tournaments here in CT, as well as PA, NY and MA.  It enjoyed and appreciated the support of Terry Conners Rink (City of Stamford), Instant Replay Sports, The Stamford Advocate, and The Stamford Times.

In the end, Girls Spring Hockey and the high school Spinnakers succumbed to a decline in the sport's popularity among younger girls in Stamford.  Why did that happen in 2009 when girls hockey in Stamford was so strong over the preceding decade?  We won't speculate.  

We would love to see a revival of girls hockey in Stamford, but that has to begin where it did for most of the Spinnakers:

Stamford Youth Hockey Association's HOUSE LEAGUE.
Play with girls and boys as your teammates and your opponents.
This is still the best way for a girl to become a great hockey player!

Just a beginner?  Try SYHA's Tiger Sharks Program.

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After the 2004 reunion game.  Nine of them are on the team again today.  More will join next fall.

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