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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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The Lucknow Legends teach three younger "future Legends" the team's pregame cheer before taking on the Clifford Barn Cats in an exhibition game Saturday, Jan. 23, during the 5th annual Women's
Hockey Day in Lucknow.
Women's Hockey Day in Lucknow encourages girls to dream of being a 'Legend'
Darryl Coote
Reporter
The 5th annual Women's
Hockey Day in Lucknow
was held Saturday, Jan. 23,
to encourage girls to not
only play the sport, but to
dream of pulling a Luc -
know Legends' sweater
over their heads and taking
to the ice as a member of
the town's only competi-
tive women's team.
From 1 p.m. Saturday at
the Lucknow & District
Sports Complex four exhi-
bition games were played
displaying the talents of
local female hockey play-
ers from Pee Wee to Adult
with the event of the even-
ing being the 5: 30 p.m.
Senior B Women's game
between the Lucknow Leg-
ends and the Clifford Barn
Cats.
Before taking the to ice
for the game, Legends
defenceman Robin
McDonagh told The Senti-
nel the event is important
to encourage girls to con-
tinue playing hockey as
they get older, especially
through college, because
without them there will be
no Lucknow Legends in
the future.
"[This day's] pretty
important cause without
the community we
wouldn't be able to play ...
Also, we wouldn't have the
girls that come up from the
younger teams," McDon-
agh said. "It's really hard to
get intermittent hockey
players to keep playing
even through college:'
The team started as an
exhibition roster in 2010
by current player Laura
Stanley who said then that
the impetus behind the
formation of the Legends
was to offer women a
place to play competitive
hockey.
Before the Legends,
when local women who
played hockey turned 21
they had two options: quit
or move to a larger city to
continue playing the sport
they loved.
"The idea is that this
team in Lucknow will start
the trend that will spread
out to other communities
in our region such as Walk-
erton, Goderich, Kincar-
dine and Saugeen Shores
to eventually create
enough teams to start a
senior women's league on
Ontario's West Coast,"
Stanley is quoted in a pre-
vious article.
Stanley's dream has yet
to come to fruition, but
Riley Aitchison, the team's
goalie, is a prime example
of one of those players
who before the Legends
would have had to hang up
her skates once turning
adult.
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