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Junior Women's Hockey League

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Sport
  
Ice hockey

Country
  
United States Canada

Founded
  
2007

The Junior Women's Hockey League is an ice hockey league established in 2007 (by Bill Driscoll and Kush Sidhu, coaches of North American Hockey Academy and the Washington Pride, respectively), in order to provide opportunities for young females to develop into collegiate student-athletes. A successful league since its first season, the JWHL has seen hundreds of players sign with NCAA Division-I or Division III schools since 2007. Over 20 JWHL players have skated for the U.S., Canadian, Czech, and Japanese Under-18 National teams. The JWHL was developed to bring together teams that regularly produce NCAA calibre players. The league started with 4 teams, expanding to 12 teams in 2012-13, and will have 10 teams for the 2017-18 season.

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Seasonal Competition

Currently, each team plays all the other teams 3 times during the regular season (27 games in the 2017-18 season). All teams also compete in the JWHL Challenge Cup (see below). Following the regular season, a playoff is held to determine the JWHL Champion.

Games are played with three 20-minute stop-time periods with ice typically being resurfaced between periods. Most games in the US are played on college campuses. Games are played by USA Hockey or Hockey Canada rules depending on the location of the venue.

JWHL Challenge Cup

The JWHL's premier event takes place in mid-February with the hosting of the JWHL Challenge Cup. The Challenge Cup brings together all of the JWHL teams as well as invited teams from across the US and Canada. The Challenge Cup has been hosted by The Washington Pride in the Washington, DC area, and is supported by the NHL's Washington Capitals.

Major Junior Division 2017-18

  • Balmoral Hall School Blazers (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
  • Boston Shamrocks (Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Chicago Young Americans (Chicago, Illinois)
  • Little Caesars Hockey Club (Detroit, Michigan)
  • New England Hockey Club (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
  • North American Hockey Academy Winter-Hawks (Stowe, Vermont)
  • Ottawa Lady 67's (Ottawa, Ontario)
  • Pacific Steelers (Vancouver, British Columbia)
  • Ridley College (St. Catherines, Ontario)
  • The Washington Pride (Washington, D.C.)

    • Championship

    A list of JWHL winners (winner is in bold):

  • 2016-17: North American Hockey Academy (Stow, VT) vs. Pacific Steelers (Vancouver, BC).

    • Site: The HarbourCenter, Buffalo, NY

  • 2015-16: The Washington Pride (Washington, DC) vs. Edge School Mountaineers (Calgary, Alberta)

    • Site: The HarbourCenter, Buffalo, NY

  • 2014-15: Warner Hockey School (Warner, AB) vs. North American Hockey Academy (Stowe, VT)

    • Site: The HarbourCenter, Buffalo, NY

  • 2013-14: North American Hockey Academy (Stowe,VT) vs Okanagan Hockey Academy (Penticton, BC)

    • Site: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

  • 2012-13: North American Hockey Academy (Stowe, VT) vs. Edge School Mountaineers (Calgary, Alberta)

    • Site: University of North Dakota Ralph Englestad Arena, Grand Forks, ND

  • 2011-12: North American Hockey Academy (Stowe, VT) vs. Edge School Mountaineers (Calgary, Alberta)

    • Site: Edge Ice Arena, Littleton, Colorado

  • 2010-11: North American Hockey Academy (Stowe,VT) vs Edge School Mountaineers (Calgary, Alberta)

    • Site: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

  • 2009-10: Warner School Warriors (Warner, Alberta)

    • Site: Kettler Capitals Iceplex, Arlington, Virginia

  • 2008-09: North American Hockey Academy (Stowe, VT) vs. Balmoral Hall School Blazers (Winnipeg, MB).

    • Site: University of North Dakota Ralph Englestad Arena, Grand Forks, ND

  • 2007-08: North American Hockey Academy (Stowe, VT) vs. Pacific Steelers (Vancouver, BC).

    • Site; South Surrey Arena, Surrey, British Columbia

    Elizabeth 'Liz' Turgeon Memorial JWHL Player of the Year Award

  • 2016-17: Veronika Pettey (Washington Pride)
  • 2015-16: Carlee Turner (North American Hockey Academy)
  • 2014-15: Shae Labbe (Warner Hockey School)
  • 2013-14: Jaycee Gebhard (Athol Murray College Notre Dame)
  • 2012-13: Annie Pankowski (North American Hockey Academy)
  • 2011-12: Haley Skarupa, (Washington Pride)
  • 2010-11: Haley Skarupa, (Washington Pride)

    • Junior Division

    The JWHL is sponsor of Junior Division ( formerly called Red Division). The teams below will be competing in the JWHL during the 2016-17 season in the U16 Division

  • NAHA Red (Stowe, Vermont)
  • Boston Shamrocks (Boston, MA)
  • The Washington Junior Pride (Washington, D.C.)

    • References

    Junior Women's Hockey League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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