That wouldn’t even have been possible a couple of years ago. The girls also got free tickets to watch UNB defeat St. The entire UNB Reds women’s hockey team provided coaching and encouragement, along with half of the St. The Canadian youngsters had lots of support.

Bananas, granola bars, Tim Hortons doughnuts, and milk, courtesy of Northumberland Dairy and the Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick, were provided. In total, more than 30 girls, ranging in age from Initiation (6 and under) to peewee (11 to 12), participated in an on-ice skills session, plus 20 minutes of off-ice kinetic stretching.

That makes me sad, but we do have it for them! So that’s why they continue to play. They loved it.”īrewer added: “Other girls have said, and I’ve had parents tell me, that if we did not have all-girls events or all-girls hockey, they probably wouldn’t be playing anymore. They asked if we could do the same thing up at their place sometime during the season, so we’re going to arrange that. I don’t think they’ve ever participated in an all-girls thing before. “So they came out on the ice, and the girls loved it. “Two moms brought five girls from Nakawic, which is about an hour from Fredericton,” said organizer Shellany Brewer, who serves as a grassroots coordinator with Hockey New Brunswick’s Female Commission. Case in point: the World Girls’ Ice Hockey Weekend event at the Aitken University Centre on the University of New Brunswick (UNB) campus in Fredericton. Sometimes it’s the simple stories of appreciation that mean the most.

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