Second Place

This past weekend my hockey team participated in a hockey tournament in Princeton. We hoped to repeat last year's performance where we won the tournament, but this year it was not to be. We won 3 of our games but lost in the finals.



This picture was just before the final game, which explains why we aren't all sweaty and our hair still looks good. It was a fun weekend - a great group of women, 4 games of hockey and lots of laughs.


The only unfortunate incident was that one of our players ended up being taken to the hospital by ambulance. A couple of the teams we played were made up of younger women (girls really) who play a more physical game. I don't mind being pushed around on the ice, but I do mind if someone sticks their stick between my legs and hauls me down to the ice, or grabs my stick and doesn't let go. I'm probably 15-20 years older than most of the players on the other teams and have a quarter of the skill they have so that kind of play really isn't necessary. I end up on the ice a lot on my own, I don't need help getting there. It was near the end of our final game and my team mate was hit, ended up whacking her head on the ice and was out cold. I was on the ice at the time but didn't see the hit, only her laying there after. It was pretty scary. She definitely has a concussion and I'm sure will have one doozy of a headache and backache for a while.


After 2 games of hockey Saturday and 2 games on Sunday I was tired, but still felt pretty good. I decided I felt good enough to still go to women's drop in hockey in West Kelowna Sunday night. What was I thinking?? There were only 6 women there so playing 3 on 3 was brutal. Well, it was more like 3 on 2 because I was useless! But, it was still fun.