TGHA Update
March 20, 2008
Cub Club Movie Night
Next Board Meeting
NCAA Women's Hockey Link
Watching NCAA Basketball-- Women's and Men's with
Girls
Banquet Highlights/Share Photos
Cub Club Movie Night
It's
finally here! Cub Club movie night will be held next Thursday March 27th at
Lynah Rink.
If you've
never experienced movie night before you're in for a treat! This is by far the
most popular event of the year where the girls can just hang out with their big
sister and have fun.
All you
need to do is bring your favorite pillow, blanket, or sleeping bag so you can
get comfortable as this event is held in the girls locker/ training facility.
The Cornell team provides the movie and snacks.
The fun
starts at 6:30pm and wraps up at about 8:30pm.
If you
have any questions please call 387-3577 or email me at wmw9@cornell.edu
Thanks,
Wayde
Next Board Meeting
Thursday
April 3, 7:00 pm,
NCAA Women's Hockey Link
http://www.uscho.com/women/
Remember
how well our Big Red women did against Harvard?
Knowing how well our hometown heroes could do against one of the FROZEN
FOUR may make you more interested to follow the NCAA this weekend as Harvard
plays with
Many
local connections as Wisconsin's assistant is Cornell alumna Tracey Cornell (no
relation to our local hockey family!), Duluth's starting goalie Kim Martin used
to come to the Cornell camp (from Sweden!), Wisconsin's Kyla Sanders played in
one of our tournaments when she was 12U, and Ithacan Lucy Schoedel is with
UNH. There are probably other
connections....feel free to write in!
Watching NCAA Basketball-- Women's
and Men's with Girls
Dads and
Daughters is a great resource for parents of girls and they published a special
enewsletter about watching basketball with your daughter:
http://www.dadsanddaughters.org/
Banquet Highlights/Share Photos
Do you
have photos from the banquet on Tuesday that you would share with TGHA? We can build a photo montage for the web site
with your help. Send to
mmgithaca@aol.com.
In
addition to celebrating the girls, several awards were made (see below). Each team shared in their own way about their
season from Initiation showing how they can stand off ice as well as on ice on
one foot and no feet....to the older teams showing off their trophies. Maybe we can think of another format since it
would be great to have everyone able to attend and stay to the end. Send your ideas to the board via
tgha0708@yahoo.com.
Special
thanks to Julie Umbach's helpers including (but not limited to) Amy Rogers,
Lisa Watkins, Maria Rabb, Karen Muckstadt, Barb Just, Catherine Van Brunschot!
Golden
Puck Awards were given to:
Non-parent
volunteers:
Maddy
Russell and Maureen Cooney who ran the Penalty Box Sports for many years
helping us get equipped, and then donated some to TGHA at the time of their
going-out-of-business sale!
Brianne
Schmidt, Cornell team captain, who ran TGHA's summer program in 2007
Lita
Remsen, Initiation coach, coaching coordinator, board member
Karen
Uber, Recreation coach, Cornell senior who 'grew up in TGHA' Initiation through
Shooting Stars
Parent
volunteers who wear many hats:
Judy
Yonkin, treasurer, apparel sales, 14U manager
Cathy
Long, registrar, tournament specialist, finance committee
David
Herrick, ice scheduler for season, off season and tournament, 14U coach
Barbara
Horton, sponsorship/fund raising and on-ice whenever possible especially
helpful with adult women and Recreation as well as Put the Biscuit in the Net
And our
banquet coordinator extraordinaire Julie Umbach
The
16/19U Shooting Stars read the nomination letters that came in supporting Karen
Cole as the 2008 Megan Shull Award recipient:
Each year
TGHA honors a supporter of girls' hockey with the Megan Shull Award. It is given annually at this banquet to a
truly remarkable and outstanding person who has:
1. Demonstrated
by his or her character, actions, commitment and enthusiasm special qualities
which have significantly benefited girls hockey in this community;
2.
Inspired others with a boldness to dream of goals;
3. Smiled
and applauded the achievements of all.
A Susan
B. Anthony dollar adorns the trophy and plaque.
Just as Susan B. Anthony led the way for women to vote, TGHA has created
the opportunities for young women to play hockey in our community.
This
year’s Megan Shull Award winner is Karen Cole. Karen is assistant coach of the
16U and 19U Shooting Stars and mother of Lauren.
Karen has
been a mentor and role model for the team not only this past year but also for
the previous 8 years. Karen has made
herself available to us to discuss hockey issues as well as personal
issues.
She has
always gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Her attitude is incredibly positive.
Karen takes the time to treat each girl as an individual. Karen was
there for the team throughout the year during all of our ups and downs. She was
always cheering us on and smiling and applauding throughout every game.
Karen
inspired people around her to strive for the best that they could be. She
encouraged us to keep going even if we were tired. Our team left everything we
had on the ice because she encouraged us and pushed us to the best we could be.
Karen
even took a puck for our team earlier in the year! She remained calm even when she was in pain.
(Puck flew at her on the bench during a game in
She
brought out the best in all of us even if we weren't up to it. Karen believed in our team and in the end it
showed in the way that our team played. Thank you Karen for all that you have
done, you have made each of us better players and by example better people.
Mary
Mary M. Grainger
Phone 607-257-3268
Fax 607-257-0483
Cell 607-280-4380