The NCWHL banner at Ice Oasis San Mateo was installed after the Friday night game on June 14, 2019. Installation began close to midnight as a group of skaters stayed after to watch.
Each panel measures 4 feet wide and 6 feet high. It was printed and installed by our friends at SF Sign City. Installation took just under 2 hours.
The Girls Garage invited NCWHL out this past weekend for a tour of their space and taught screen printing to League members who participated. As you may recall, the NCWHL held a donation drive for Girls Garage over the 2018 holiday season. Many of our League members were eager to help out and did so with monetary and supply donations. We invited the Girls Garage founders to come out to our General Meeting in April 2019 and share their inspirational stories. Check out their website for more info about the incredible programs they offer to empower young Bay Area girls and see how you can help. We are looking forward to working with this amazing organization again in the future!
There’s still time to sign up to play as a free agent in the first ever NCWHL Invitational Tournament on June 21-23. The tentative schedule has games running from 6pm Friday night to 6pm Sunday. The registration link can be found here: https://ncwhl.com/ncwhl-invitational-2019/ We are especially in need of BLUE skaters and are accepting tournament buddies, so bring a friend!
Even if you can’t play, please plan on dropping by on Saturday to participate in our raffle/auction or volunteering for the event. Contact Eula at ncwhl.invitational@gmail.com to help or with any other questions.
One of the amazing auction items we have is a game used stick signed by Team USA’s Kelli Stack. This stick saw action during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. It includes a personalized message supporting women’s hockey. A huge thank you to Terri Yu for this incredible donation!
One of our raffle baskets has the jersey & pucks below (Thank you to Terri Yu for these donations, as well!):
We’d love to make a few more baskets! Here’s where you can help.
We currently have the following themes:
If you can help by donating items for the following themes, you would be helping us raise even more money for BAYS!
Feel free to direct any questions to Eula at ncwhl.invitational@gmail.com
Thank you League members who came out to join us on April 20, 2019 for the NCWHL General Membership Meeting. We loved seeing you and hope you enjoyed hearing about our latest community outreach accomplishments and got pumped for future NCWHL endeavors!
Missed the meeting?
Download our meeting minutes to get up to speed:
2019 NCWHL General Membership Meeting
This season, the Board of the NCWHL has updated policies surrounding penalties and supplemental disciplinary action.
For violations of the NCWHL Code of Responsibility, players are subject to League discipline as summarized below:
For particularly egregious violations, the Board reserves the right to employ stricter discipline than the above progression dictates. These violations, whether penalized on-ice or not, are subject to interpretation by the League’s governing body, as outlined by USA Hockey Rules.
This progression written to address those players who habitually ignore issued warnings to adjust their gameplay to that which is acceptable in our League and as a result, put other players in dangerous situations. In the past, these players have received numerous warnings; some received a suspension on the first offense. By offense, we are referring to anything which may or may not have been penalized on-ice. We needed a policy that was clear-cut on what the repercussions are when you don’t play the way this League was intended to play.
(AKA, the way we expect players to conduct themselves during game situations)
Players are responsible not only for their actions on the ice, but also for being aware of the other players on the ice and being able to act in a responsible manner for the safety of all players.
Repeated violations of the standard of play in the NCWHL will be reviewed by the Board and could be subject to suspension. Repeated violations after suspensions and additional Board review could result in expulsion from the NCWHL.
The Breakdown: What this really means has 2 parts. First, there is a responsibility on the part of the player initiating the play. You are responsible for how you play and whether your actions are intimidating or aggressive. If you are going for a puck and there are 9 players in between you and the puck, it might not be a great idea to plow through them all just to get to the puck. If you are still learning how to stop, don’t use other players as your cushion. Skate with your head up so you don’t run into other players accidentally (which is really a good hockey play anyway – the skating with your head up thing). It really doesn’t matter if you get a penalty on the play or not. You are still responsible for how you play.
The second part to this Code is the receiving end of the play. When you have a player on the ice with you that is known to use other players as bowling pins, try to avoid putting yourself in a vulnerable position when they are on the ice with you. When you see someone bearing down on you and you know they don’t like to (or can’t) stop, try not to turn your back to them and skate out of their path to protect yourself. We fully recognize that the onus should be on those players to address dangerous playing styles, but we all need to learn to protect ourselves because while checking is not allowed in our League, we are all still knowingly engaged in a physical, contact sport.
As players in this League, we should all value each other and recognize that we all need to go to work the next day with all our body parts functioning. This is in our waivers when you sign up to play. When you agree to play in the NCWHL, you agree to respect all players on the ice, including yourself.
