Ringette community mourns death of
international ambassador,
Agnes Jacks C.M.

With deep sadness, Ringette Canada and the entire ringette community mourned the loss of our sport's international ambassador, Agnes Jacks C.M.
Mrs. Jacks passed away at the North Bay General Hospital Scollard Site on Friday (April 1). She was 81.

Member of the Order of Canada, Agnes Jacks was the widow of Sam Jacks, who invented the sport of ringette in 1963 in North Bay, Ontario. After Mr. Jacks' passing in 1975, Mrs. Jacks worked passionately to promote the sport both within Canada and around the world.

CALGARY'S "AA" TEAMS 2004-2005

Calgary Soars
at the 2005 AA Provincial Championships
Calgary came home from the north with
medals in every division.

Congratulations to:
Petite AA Rush - Gold
Petite AA Fire - 4th
Tween AA Jaa - Gold
TweenAA Omada - Silver
Junior AA Tuulii - Gold
Junior AA Legacy - Silver
Belle AA Altius - Gold
Open AA RATH - Silver

Calgary Wins
University Challenge

University of Calgary
Ringette Team

As you can observe from the photograph, the University of Calgary Ringette Club successfully defended its 2004 title by winning the 2005 University Challenge Cup in Landmark, Manitoba on Jan. 4, 2005.

The U.C.C. is growing in leaps and bounds with two new University teams, Laurentian and Ottawa joining Manitoba, St. Boniface, Calgary and Alberta in the 2005 tournament. With Dinosaurs, Bisons, Pandas and Gee Gees roaming the corridors it truly gave a "national' feel to the event. Competition was intense and Calgary was victorious because it excelled in all facets of the game. Goaltending, defence, offence and skating were superb through all seven games played in 51 hours.
The final against our friends from Edmonton was a fine exhibition of Ringette, with Calgary triumphing with a 3-1 victory. The weather in Winnipeg and Landmark was delightful although snowmobiles and plows may have been more appropriate than our mini-vans.
Several other universities have verbally committed to sending teams in 2006 and the "Friendly Manitobans' are terrific hosts to this expanding venue for the game of Ringette.

2004 World Ringette Championships

Two Calgarians - Jodi Jensen and Stacey McNichol were on Team Canada at the 2004 World Ringette Championships in Stockholm, Sweden.
Finland regained the world title after defeating Canada 9-3.  Canada returned home with silver and USA with bronze.

At the 2002 World ringette championship in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada beat Finland 3-1 for the gold and USA beat Sweden 10-3 for the bronze. The next World ringette championship
will be held in 2007.

The 19th annual Esso Golden Ring was held Jan. 21-23, 2005 and hosted Bunny through Intermediate divisions. There were 166 teams in 17 different divisions.

Esso Golden Ring Champions 2005 (photos courtesy of R&G Photo)
NOVICE Calgary BV Angels	NOVICE B Calgary East Ice
PETITE A Calgary BV Vibe	PETITE B Calgary BV Ringers
TWEEN AA Zone 5 Fever	TWEEN A Fort Sask Black Ice
TWEEN B Regina Panthers	JUNIOR AA Calgary Legacy
JUNIOR A Calgary SV Renegades	JUNIOR B Sherwood Pk Untouchables
BELLE AA Calgary Altius	BELLE A Medicine Hat Blaze
BELLE B Calgary SV Savages	DEB A University of Calgary
INTERMEDIATE A Calgary Triwood Tradition	OPEN AA Edmonton WAM

• The Ringette Calgary website provided all tournament information including: application form, hospitality night information, a list of successful applicants, coaches mandatory registration, adopt a team information, and the schedules. This greatly expeeds the process of providing information to teams. All notification to teams was done through email.
• The Tween AA, Tween A, Junior AA, Junior A, Junior B, Belle AA, Belle A, Belle B, Deb A, Intermediate A and Open AA divisions used shot clocks for all games.
• Customized Game sheets with the Esso Golden Ring logo on them were used once again.
• Game scores were uploaded over the weekend from the control centre. This process assisted coaches in attaining game scores and information about which quarter or semi final game they would be participating in.
• In the interest of fair play, in the Bunny and Novice divisions each player on a team was allowed to score a maximum of three goals per game.
• The Esso Golden Ring was chosen by the National Ringette League to host league games for the NRL. A record-breaking 7 Open AA teams attended
• Imperial Oil provided 15 new Esso Golden Ring Banners which were hung in the arenas
  

Where were the teams from?

The girls played awsome & every one of the first year girls either scored a goal or got an assist. Those second year girls going up toTween next year were AWSOME role models for our first years !!!

NW Tween B GPanthers
who won Gold at the Lethbridge Ringette Tournament in November.

Calgary North Zenith
(Team Alberta) wins GOLD at the Western Canadian Championships

Congratulations!

Calgary North Junior A Team Toxic won gold at the
Medicine Hat tournament Jan 7-9

Calgary Belle AA Altius
were undefeated in their age category all year
(one tie in one tournament) including Provincials.

The team would like to thank their great coaching staff:
Beth Veale, Jodi Jensen, Trina Janssens, Sandy McNeil and Jody Seerup

Regina tournament where Omada (left) won gold and the Tween AA Jää (right) won silver

Omada played against Jaa in the gold medal round and won by a score of 2-0.