Acceptance

[DannyG]

Thank you Richard Graham for this opportunity...

As my initial post on this forum section, I relate the following story...

Two years ago, our boys (10's/12's) tournament group played vs. our (then newly formed) girls' tournament team. The scores were 22-2, and 18-1.

Last year the score was 6-4, and the girls were pissed off at themselves because they knew three of the boys' goals were misplays on their (the girls') part.

This year the score was 8-0, and the girls totally dominated every part of the game. The game wasn't even as close as the score. We have not heard any further suggestion from the boys' camp that we do this again.

Rather, we now have four tournament groups that have made a point of inviting the girls to make their team a co-ed unit.

However, we note that, when the first such group was formed, several boys scoffed at their compatriots, "You're gonna play with girls?" Now, however, if you aren't playing with the girls, you aren't playing on the best team.

Does anybody else have similar recounts of the grudgingly long road up the journey of acceptance that seems to be the lot of our pioneer girl/women players?

We would be very interested in hearing from you, and letting all your female playing friends know about this new discussion forum...

Thanks! and welcome, from all of us Polar Bears in El Paso, Texas (of both gender)...

[missionhockey21]

I remember in a 12u game a few years back, about 5 years, my team played an all girls team in a tournament. We had girls on house teams and stuff, but never played against an all girls travel team. So that was quite shocking to us. We beat them pretty bad that game. But we played them a year later and it was quite a different game, I think only a goal or two seperated them from us. Thats probably when I realized that girls could defiently play. I see little girls coming up in 10 and 12u's now and some are as good as the boys for that age group.