The City of Westmount, Que., Featured its first women’s hockey team this season.
It is the first time that the Westmount Minor Hockey Association has enough girls signed up to make a full team.
The girls are between seven and eight years old, but many of them have been playing the sport for a couple of years on mixed teams, the WMHA said.
“I think it’s better because the guys are a little louder and it’s easier,” said 7-year-old Caroline San Gregorio of the new team.
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Coach and mother Marie-Josée Blais believes that the women’s team helps female players develop a true passion for the sport.
“The idea is to make them like sports a lot and be confident, because a lot of the problems with younger girls or older girls is keeping them or keeping them in sport,” she says.
“I think my daughter would not have participated or would have had a more difficult time participating with the children and this gives her a little more confidence.”
The Westmount Wings are the only women’s team in their division and play mostly men’s teams from different parts of the city, but the girls seem to like it that way.
“I feel safe,” says Sophie Frenkiel. “Boys say they are stronger than girls, but that is not true.”
Saturday’s contest was the first official game. There is no scorer, but they won their first two practice games.
The Westmount Hockey Association says the goal is to add an additional women’s team each year.
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