{"id":5445,"date":"2018-05-08T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/2018\/05\/08\/girls-fun-day-offers-intro-to-hockey\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:30:46","slug":"girls-fun-day-offers-intro-to-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/girls-fun-day-offers-intro-to-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Fun Day Offers Intro to Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original story posted here<\/a>, including a video.<\/p>\n

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Hockey, fun and smiles were the theme Wednesday night at Total Ice Training Centre as 26 girls from Williams Lake banded together to try out the sport for the annual Esso Girls Fun Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe maxed out [with registration],\u201d said Williams Lake Minor Hockey female co-ordinator Jen Loewen. \u201cBrianna MacDonald and I worked really hard to get this together in conjunction with Total Ice, Esso Fun Day and Hockey Canada, and the idea is to try to bring girls into the sport and introduce them to hockey in a safe environment and have some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mentors from the Williams Lake Atom division, Bantam Timberwolves and Midget Timberwolves were on ice helping players pickup the game, along with local coaches Jay Cheek and Lindsey Wood.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the kids to enjoy themselves, first and foremost,\u201d Loewen said. \u201cHockey\u2019s not for everybody. I\u2019d like to see some of the girls come back, and we\u2019re hearing they want to. I\u2019d like for them to want to play hockey, and we can help them out with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julia Landry was one player who said she had a blast at Esso Girls Fun Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d Landry said. \u201cI\u2019m trying hockey for the first time, it\u2019s amazing and I love it. I think I\u2019ll play next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

A special guest also made an appearance as girls were leaving the ice to wrap up the evening \u2014 2018 Canadian Olympic hockey silver medalist Brigette Lacquette, 25, stopped by to share some words of advice.<\/p>\n

Lacquette, from the Cote First Nation in Saskatchewan, who grew up in Mallard, Man., 300 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, is the first First Nations female athlete to ever be selected for Canada\u2019s women\u2019s Olympic hockey team.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t take no as an answer,\u201d she said of how she achieved her dream of playing at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, you have to do things you don\u2019t want to do, and work hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what she would say to girls who don\u2019t know whether they want to play all-girls hockey or on mixed teams with boys and girls, Lacquette said to do what makes you happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played boys hockey until I was 16,\u201d she said. \u201cI played one year of just girls hockey, then played at Pursuit of Excellence in Kelowna. I like playing boys and girls \u2014 boys hockey forced me to get my head up and move the puck quicker and have more awareness, but girls hockey has really grown. I grew up in the middle of nowhere so there was really no other option. But I look around and there are a lot of girls here. There\u2019s hockey now across Canada so you guys are pretty fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Original story posted here, including a video. Hockey, fun and smiles were the theme Wednesday night at Total Ice Training Centre as 26 girls from Williams Lake banded together to try out the sport for the annual Esso Girls Fun Day. \u201cWe maxed out [with registration],\u201d said Williams Lake Minor Hockey female co-ordinator Jen Loewen. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"segment":[],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions\/5446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"segment","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/segment?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}