TGHA Update
Dec. 11, 2007
Home Game Wednesday
Coffee Orders
Photo Orders
Sports Books for Gifts
Girls Hockey Apparel Source
Home Game Wednesday
12/12/07 7:30 PM
Coffee Orders
Coffee
orders were distributed on Monday and Tuesday at practices. If you didn't get yours, Barbara Horton is
probably trying to connect. Help her by
contacting her at homesweethome@fltg.net.
Both the November and December coffee orders brought
in over $1000 to TGHA. THANKS!
Photo Orders
Photo
orders were also distributed Monday and Tuesday, and will be at Thursday
practices, too. If your order doesn't
get to you this week, contact Mary Grainger.
If you get an order but it isn't quite right, refer to the contact
information with the photos.
Sports Books for Gifts
Check out
this recently updated listing of books for girls about athletics.
Below is
the description of Shooting Star and Cornell alumna Megan Shull's fiction book
about an 11 year old girl who plays ice hockey for the "Ithaca
Comets" and who goes to Lakeview Middl School
which resembles Boynton! It's a must
read for all in TGHA when they are in late elementary school or middle
school. As well as being a well-written
story about a girls hockey player, you can find lots
of local references and connections (Megan is sister of Coach Karen Cole and
aunt of Lauren Cole; and she features the Eisenhut
girls as well as girls who were playing hockey in 2003 when it was first published!)
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/issues/family/article.html?record=945
Yours Truly, Skye O’Shea, Megan Shull, Pleasant Company
Publishing,
Girls Hockey Apparel Source
BelaHockey Proves Hockey is a Girl’s Sport Too
Hockey
Moms and Olympic Gold Medalist Cammi Granato Found Apparel Company with a Female Touch
South
Portland, ME (December 4, 2007) --- BelaHockey, a new
line of hockey gear and apparel produced exclusively for girls, is proud to
announce the official launch of its web store – www.BelaHockey.com - becoming
the first company to focus entirely on attracting girls to the sport. Founded
by a group of local hockey moms and hockey legend Cammi
Granato, the women of BelaHockey
are on a mission to expand the hockey apparel market and encourage more girls
to take up the sport that has long been tailored to boys.
Until
today, girls interested in playing hockey often received the message that it’s
a boys sport with all the equipment and clothing primarily designed for males.
Drawing from its founders’ personal experiences, BelaHockey
is proud to offer an exclusive line of equipment and apparel for girls
including long-sleeve cotton tee-shirts, pink and purple custom hockey socks,
personalized polka dot hockey sticks and an innovative sports headband.
Traditional hockey gear such as socks and sticks have been updated and
redesigned with fun graphics and patterns to allow girls to express their
personality and style on the ice and are available at www.BelaHockey.com.
“Growing
up playing hockey, I was always one of the only girls, whether it was at home
with my brothers or in the local youth league,” said Granato.
“I was comfortable on the ice but felt self conscious in the lobby where it was
clear that I was a girl playing a boy’s sport. By offering girls hockey gear
designed exclusively for them, we’re reinforcing that hockey is their sport
too. We hope BelaHockey will motivate other girls to
pick up a stick and try the great game of hockey.”
BelaHockey was inspired by Bela Cloutier,
a six-year-old from
“When Bela and I went to purchase all the equipment for her to
play hockey with the neighborhood kids, there was nothing in the store that
made her feel as though she should be playing too,”
said Anna Cloutier, co-founder of BelaHockey.
“It is intimidating for girls to try a new, predominately male sport,
especially when the equipment looks as though it has been designed for boys. As
moms, we wanted hockey to be packaged in a more balanced and inviting way. This
was when the idea of BelaHockey was born.”
Over the
past fifteen years, girls and women’s hockey have enjoyed considerable growth
with participation levels increasing to 58,000 participants in the
“I will
always be proud of the fact that I represented my country in the Olympics and
helped bring home the gold, but just as important, I will forever be proud of
what our success has meant for the next generation of young girls,” added Granato.
Cloutier
and Granato are joined by partner Justine Carlisle to
form the Portland-based company. BelaHockey will
continue to expand its product line in the 2008-09 seasons with performance shirts,
hockey stick bags, jerseys and other colorful, playful custom equipment.
In
addition to being a mom herself, Granato is arguably
the most recognizable female American hockey player of all-time. A two-time
Olympian, she captained Team
About BelaHockey:
BelaHockey, hockey stuff for girls, was founded by Justine Carlisle, Anna Cloutier and Cammi Granato. This exclusive product line of hockey gear and
apparel includes custom hockey and skate socks, personalized hockey sticks,
head bands, helmet stickers and a collection of long-sleeve junior and girl’s
cotton tee-shirts. For sales or more information, please visit
www.BelaHockey.com.
Media
Information:
Justine
Carlisle – (207) 232-0054, justine@belahockey.com
Mary
Mary M. Grainger
Phone 607-257-3268
Fax 607-257-0483
Cell 607-280-4380