2007-2008 Season   

 

Ringette Calgary Board of Directors 2007-2008
Back Row: Mark Ward, Barb Cook, Shawna Pollock, Brad Charlton, Paul Geddes
Middle Row: Marlayne Brandsgard, Linda Shorter, Laureen Prefontaine, Rick Hann, Laura Webb
Front Row: Adrian Shorter, Iveah Hutchison, Ron Crawford
UofC Scholarship
Nicole Geddes was the recipient of the Don Henderson Memorial Ringette Scholarship at the University of Calgary for the 2007-2008 Academic year.

Updated Logo Introduced
The Ringette Calgary logo was updated by Laura Webb

Goalie Development Clinic a HUGE Success
More than 40 players were out to work on their goaltending skills.

 
Teams and Coaches
Division Team Coach
Bunnie CER Bunny Huggers Jeannette Bailey
Bunnie BV Snow Bunnies Rob Coumont
Bunnie CBV Ringers Steve Deighton
Bunnie BV Bad News Bunnies Corinne Middleton
Bunnie CNW Ice Rockets Kim Evans
Bunnie BV Blue Jays Paul Comessotti
Bunnie NW Ring Robbers Eric Willerth
Bunnie NW Ice Crystals Jeff Kenyon
Bunnie CSO Panthers Stephen Poupart
Bunnie BV Ice Cats Joe Creaghan
Bunnie CSO Racing Rabbits Richard Campbell
Bunnie NW Shooting Stars Kim Zizakovic
Novice A BV Ice Rockets Susan Foster
Novice A BV Blizzard Stephen Murray
Novice A NW Fusion Fred Wassmuth
Novice A CSO Outlawz Denis Painchaud
Novice A CSO Ice Devils Ian Martyn
Novice A NW Chix with Stix Scott Wolsey
Novice B NW Polar Bears Norm Lennox
Novice B CER Ice Crushers Dale Nevison
Novice B CER HotShots Jerry Hamilton
Novice B CSO Raccoons Jeff Pfeifer
Novice B BV Ice Angels Kim Burglehaus
Novice B BV Bandits Mary Ellen Larson
Novice B NW Ring Robbers Ty Snaith
Novice B NW Fire on Ice Leigh Sauer
Novice B CSO Vipers Shawn Hendry
Novice B BV Thunder Hall Noble
Novice B NW Cheetah Girls Jeff Parker
Novice B CSO Penguins Rick Laycock
Petite A NW Zest Daren Gerlitz
Petite A BV Storm Shannon Stratton
Petite A BV Avalanche Ian Purdy
Petite A NW Syke Mark Petros
Petite A CSO Fusion Murray Quibell
Petite B CSO Friction Stuart Erickson
Petite B CSO Geckos Mark Fitzgerald
Petite B BV Ice Breakers Peter Mraz
Petite B NW Evil Pandas Mike Tiffany
Petite B NW Black Ice Jim Robinson
Petite B BV Buzz Lana Penman
Petite B CER Penguins Kevin Kromm
Petite B CER Stingettes Richard Drake
Petite C CSO Ice Breakers Jeff Crane
Petite C NW Blitz Dennis Melbourn
Petite C BV Ice Crushers Warren Baun
Petite C BV Power Penguins Andy Becker
Petite C NW Ice Dragons David Curtis
 
Division Team Coach
Tween A BV Endeavor Laurene Prefontaine
Tween A NW Shok Charmaine Richter
Tween A CSO Shock Dean Webster
Tween A BV Impact Nicole Pelletier
Tween A NW Riot Dave Chown
Tween B CNW TB1 Toxic Kim Grover
Tween B CNW TB2 X-Cel Mark MacMillan
Tween B CBV TB1 Xtreme Doug Shostak
Tween B CNW TB3 Synergy Trevor Hall
Tween B CSO TB1 Velocity Denis Painchaud
Tween B CSO TB2 Fusion Jim Keough
Tween B CBV TB2 Vortex Kristi Waeyen
Junior A SV Synergy Dan O'Byrne
Junior A CalgN JA1 Force Grant Exner
Junior A CalgN JA2 Luja Steve Switzer
Junior A SV Jnr A Magnum Gary Hart
Junior B CalgN JB2 Raze Scott Fuller
Junior B CalgN JB1 Praxis Dan Pedersen
Junior B CBV JB2 Intensity Udo Rover
Junior B CBV JB1 Terry Yasui
Junior B CBV JB3 Blazers Brad Harrison
Belle A CalgN Hype Bob Kerr
Belle A SV Invicta Darwyn Miles
Belle B CalgN LB1 APEX Adrian Shorter
Belle B SV Belle B United Craig Webster
Belle B SV Belle B Inspired Trevor Gritten
Belle B CalgN Blaze Jim Hepburn
Open A U of C Murray Pettem
Open A W Hillhurst US Jim Quinn
Open A NW Zing Mike Grant
Open A BV Heat Jack Marsh
Open A Blitz Alan Haigh
Open B TW Tradition Laura Webb
Open B TW Gladiators Ed Wahl
Open B BV Ruckus Bob Markle
Open B TW Defiance Bob Barnes
Open B SCal Storm Doug Hayden
Open B Blaze Eric Forst
Open C BV Chaos Aaron Graham
Open C NW Raging Penguins Darryl Jaques
 
Petite AA PAA S.W.A.T. Gary Hart
Petite AA PAA Dan Paslawski
Tween AA TAA Crew Paul Geddes
Tween AA TAA Voltage John Webb
Junior AA JAA Colla Chris Belan
Junior AA JAA Crux Bob Curran
Belle AA BAA Caliber Dean Melnyk
Open AA OAA RATH Beth Veale
2008 Ringette Calgary Champions
Division
GOLD MEDALISTS
SILVER MEDALISTS
PROVINCIAL
CHAMPIONSHIPS
FINISH
Petite A
SCalg Fusion

NW Zest


Calgary Fusion - Gold
Northwest Zest - 8th
Petite B

BV Ice Breakers

S.Calg Friction
BV Ice Breakers - 8th
Petite C

NW Ice Dragons
NW Blitz

NW Ice Dragons - 4th

Tween A

S Calgary Shock

NW Shok
SCalgary Shock - 4th
Tween B

S.Calg Fusion

NW Synergy

NW Synergy - 5th
SCalgary Fusion - 6th


Junior A

SV Synergy
CalgN Force

Southview Synergy - Gold
Calgary North Luja - 4th

SV Synergy - Gold at the Western Canadian Championships

Junior B

CalgN Raze
CalgN Praxis


CalgN Praxis - GOLD
Calgary North Raze - 6th
Belle A

SV Invicta
Cal N Hype

Cal North Hype - Silver
SV Invicta - Bronze

Belle B

Cal N Blaze

Cal N Apex


Cal N Apex - Silver

Cal N Blaze - 4th

Open A

West HillHurst US
U of C
Calgary Blitz - Silver
West Hillhurst US - 4th
U of C Ringette Club - 5th
Northwest Zing - 6th
Open B

BV Ruckus
Triwood Gladiators

BV Ruckus - Bronze
Calgary Blaze - 6th

Open C

NW Raging Penguins
BV Chaos
NW Raging Penuins - 5th
CALGARY'S "AA" TEAMS 2007-2008

CALGARY
PETITE AA

Info to follow

CALGARY
PETITE AA

Info to follow

CALGARY
VOLTAGE
TWEEN AA


Katelyn Dimopoulos
Saige Petros
Amy Paterson
Shayna Haley
Erin Tod
Nicole Ronsky
Taylor Sakon
Rachel Grant
Jolene Culkin
Jasmine Bearss
Shelby Brennan
Taylor Kraft
Nicole Sikora
Amy Webb (G)
                       
Staff:   
John Webb      
Julie  Culkin     
Glenn  Kraft     
Lindsey  Lovse 
Gary  Sikora     
Ryan  McDougall
CALGARY
CREW
TWEEN AA


Karen Lefsrud (G)
Alex Varty
Kayla Bouchard
Paola Romeo
Erin Paslawski
Sarah Hope
Justine Exner
Erin Charlton
Holly McKague
Caley Mineault
Lindsey Geddes
Paula Murphy
Alana Wasylenko

Staff:   
Jim Hope         
Sarah  Beaton  
Paul  Geddes   
Devon  Lowe    
Brad  Charlton  
Marc  Bouchard


CALGARY
COLLA
JUNIOR AA

           
Ainsley Bosch (G)
Ashley Drozdowski
Deja Leonard
Jodie Gordon
Alison Rockley
Shaundra Bruvall
Nadia Izzo
Taylor Odynski
Sarah Leech
Kristen Docherty
Alexandra Saizew
Jocelyn Stock

Staff:   
Chris Belan      
Drew  Belan     
Michelle  Bosch
Courtney  Jaques         
Bob  Kerr         
Robyn  Mann   
Jeanne Odynski           
CALGARY
CRUX
BELLE AA


Alysha Kulka (G)
Taylor Stradeski
Kendal Kurta
Carolina Romeo
Nicole Prokop
Christianne Varty
Jocelyn Bouchard
Madison Orchard
Gabriella Martin
Lindsey Kee
Emily Webb
Chantal Chown
                       
Staff:   
Bob Curran      
Shawn  Curran  
Kelsey  DeForest         
Jamie  Lefebre 
Laura  Niedermayer       
Bev Kee           
Katie McNeil     
CALGARY
CALIBER
BELLE AA


Devon Lowe (G)
Megan Melnyk
Ashley Boos
Alex Bayko
Tori Syrenne
Carly Flemming
Lauren Crape
Sarah Courtney
Alyssa Bosch
Stephanie Zimmel
Evan Brown
Nicole Geddes
Tanya Twerdy
Corey Block
Kelsey Gerwing
Cassandra Bailey (G)

Staff:   
Dean Melnyk    
Chelsea  Dolan 
Danielle Hargreaves     
Jennifer  Kuhn  
Joe  Wensink   
Tatum  Wensink
Mary Lee Block


CALGARY
RATH
OPEN AA


Stacey McNichol (G)
Sarah Beaton
Barb Bautista
Kailee Klemmensen
Lindsay Veale
Abbey Hoes
Pam Lenz
Victoria Russell
Dallas Robbins
Stacy Johnson
Jodi Jensen
Ali Cronin
Bobbi Mattson (G)
Tatum Wensink

Staff:   
Beth Veale       
Trina  Janssens
Jody Seerup    
Ryan Van Roekel          

2008 Ringette Calgary AA Teams
Division
PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS FINISH
Western Cdn or Canadian
Ringette Championships FINISH
Petite AA Calgary Swat - BRONZE
N/A
Calgary Mission - 6th
Tween AA Calgary Crew - BRONZE

N/A

Calgary Voltage - 4TH
Junior AA Calgary Crux - GOLD

Calgary Crux - Bronze


Calgary Colla - SILVER
Belle AA Calgary Caliber - SILVER

N/A

Open AA  

Calgary RATH - Bronze

2008 Esso Golden Ring


The 22nd annual Esso Golden Ring was held January 18-20, 2008 and hosted Bunny through Open divisions. There were 191 teams in 17 different divisions.

Tournament Committee:

 




Where were the teams from?

Level
Calgary
AB
BC
SK
QUE
teams
games
Players
Coaches
Participants
Bunnie
12
3
0
0
0
15
23
196
66
262
Novice
18
6
0
0
0
24
36
319
93
412
Pet A
5
9
1
1
0
16
31
215
69
284
Pet B
8
6
1
1
0
16
31
213
66
279
Pet C
5
3
0
0
0
8
15
104
37
141
Tw AA
2
4
3
1
0
10
23
147
44
191
Tw A
5
7
0
0
0
12
25
160
49
209
Tw B
7
6
1
2
0
16
31
213
68
281
Jr AA
2
3
1
1
1
8
19
122
32
154
Jr A
4
3
1
0
0
8
15
123
32
155
Jr B
5
5
0
0
0
10
21
147
39
186
Belle AA
1
2
2
0
1
6
16
95
23
118
Belle A
2
3
0
1
0
6
11
90
25
115
Belle B
4
2
0
0
0
6
11
89
23
112
Open AA
1
1
1
1
0
4
8
56
15
71
Open A
5
4
0
1
0
10
21
178
35
213
Open B
6
4
0
1
1
12
25
194
34
228
Open C
2
2
0
0
0
4
7
70
12
82
94
73
11
10
3
191
369
2731
762
3493
  • There were 191 teams in the 2008 Esso Golden Ring in 18 divisions of play. There were a total of 369 Games (500 hours of ice). The ice bill will be approximately $76,000.00.
  • There were approximately 80 on-ice officials used in the tournament.
    Referee game fees for the tournament total $12,000.00. The cost of "importing" referees and transporting them is an additional $5000. Plus, hotel rooms are provided free of charge to all out of town officials. Transportation was provided to out of town officials to all of their games.
  • Committee members accumulated 764 draw prizes for players (4 for each team), including 191 custom orange stinger sticks with Esso Golden Ring imprinted on them. All players received Esso Golden Ring souvenir items - lapel pins, pens, posters and a custom necklace. All Bunny and Novice teams received participation medals for their friendship series.
  • Committee Members accumulated $4900 worth of donated prizes for the Esso Golden Ring Raffle (all $10,000 tickets were sold thanks to Calgary teams)
  • There were 285 Individuals from Calgary teams who volunteered at arenas, plus over 200 people who were minor officials and shot clocks operaters at the semi and final games. There are 23 tournament committee members, who opened arenas as early as 5:30 am, and closed as late as 12:15 am.
  • The "control centre" was at East Twin and was staffed with committee members and volunteers all weekend who circulated game scores, uploaded scores to the website, compiled results, and generated pre-printed gamesheets for all games.
  • Committee members were linked by cellular phones donated by Fido, and averaged more than 500 km of driving over the weekend.

Tournament Committee members
assemble 191coaches packages

Custom Esso Golden Ring Stinger Sticks
2008 Esso Golden Ring Champions

All Bunnies & Novices are Winners!

Division
Gold Medalists
Score
Silver Medalists
Score
Petite A
Medicine Hat Meadlowlands
3
St. Albert Force
0
Petite B
Lacombe Extreme
6
Red Deer Stingers
1
Petite C
Spruce Grove Red Hot Ringers
7
Sherwood Park Boomerangs
3
Tween AA
Zone 5 Rush
5
Calgary Voltage
1
Tween A
Leduc LRG Catering
4
Edmonton Slam
2
Tween B
Regina Barracudas
7
Red Deer Rage
6
Junior AA
Zone 5 Valta
3
Regina Stingers
1
Junior A
Calgary North Force
7
Medicine Hat VIIBE
5
Junior B
Sherwood Park Synergy
4
Edmonton Synergy
3
Belle AA
Edmonton Jacked Up
8
Zone 5 Break
6
Belle A
Red Deer Hazard
4
Calgary North Hype
1
Belle B
Calgary North APEX
5
Drayton Valley Twisted Sisters
3
Open A
Calgary West Hillhurst US
5
University of Calgary
2
Open B
Lacombe Larkaun Homies
8
Calgary Triwood Defiance
3
Open C
Edmonton Misfits
6
Lethbridge Thunder
4

PHOTOS COURTESY:  R&G PHOTO (copyright 2008)     Photographers:  Rob Askew, Dave Roberts
For Order Information, call R&G Photo at 403-291-1350
Bunnies
Calgary BV Bad News Bunnies


Calgary BV Blue Jays
Calgary BV Ice Cats
Calgary BV Ringers


Calgary BV Snow Bunnies

Calgary East Bunny Huggers


Calgary NW Ice Crystals


Calgary NW Ice Rockets
Calgary NW Ring Robbers

Calgary NW Shooting Stars


South Calgary Panthers
South Calgary Racing Rabbits


Airdrie Ice Angels


Rockyford Ringers
Airdrie Thunder



NOVICE
South Calgary Vipers


Calgary BV Bandits

Calgary NW Ring Robbers
Calgary BV Thunder


Calgary East Hot Shots


Calgary NW Fire on Ice
South Calgary Ice Penguins


Calgary NW Polar Bears


Calgary NW Cheetah Girls
Calgary BV Ice Angels


South Calgary Raccoons
Calgary East Ice Crushers
Fort Saskatchewan Icesplosion


Fort Saskatchewan Ice Rebels


Medicine Hat Ring Devils
Medicine Hat Ringers


St. Albert Ice Dawgs
St. Albert Salsa Girls
Calgary NW Fusion
South  Calgary Ice Devils
Calgary BV Blizzard
South Calgary Outlawz
Calgary BV Ice Rockets
Calgary NW Chix with Stix

The Control Centre
What is the control centre?
It is the heart of the tournament. It is here that volunteers from all the different arenas phone in game scores which are entered into a software program that helps in calculating which teams are advancing. Then, control room workers generate gamesheets for the next round of games.
Gamesheets from across the city are shuttled to the control center where each one is checked and verified. These same drivers take the new gamesheets and deliver them back to all the arenas.
It is also here where decisions are made to "troubleshoot" ongoing occurances.


Moncia Ford & Marlene Cox

"Super" helpers Darcy & Tony

Erin Pinel working on the Ref schedule

Cindy Melnyk & Tony Merritt take a break

John Mader can't wait until Sunday is over!

Iveah Hutchison & Monica Ford

The Saturday Night Control Room crew: John Mader, Patsy McNish, Marlayne Brandsgard,
Laura Webb, Iveah Hutchison, Marg Harris, Sue Cappie and Erin Pinel (sitting)

Tony Merritt taking game scores

John Mader, Iveah Hutchison, Monica Ford

Lots of Laughs in the Control Room!

Steve Hutchison came to visit his wife

Jodi Jensen came to visit her mom Marlene

Larry McNish & Stuie verify game scores

Jesse Geddes came to visit mom Shelley

Darlene Kuhn

Marg Harris

Sue Cappie

The Games
SNAPSHOTS
thanks to Shannon Hutchison
for providing these photos
Calgary RATH
thanks again to Shannon Hutchison
for providing these photos

13th Annual

Hosted by PSA / Calgary East Ringette
FEB 22-24, 2008
@ Don Hartman NE Sportsplex
Calgary, AB

13th Annual Lonnie Krahn Spring Classic
FINAL STANDINGS 2008
ALL Bunnies are winners
Cochrane Rockies, North West Rockets, PSA/Cal-East Bunnie Huggers, Strathmore Icicles
Division Gold   Silver 
NOVICE Red Deer Ice Cheetahs 7 Medicine Hat Tigers 5
PETITE B Red Deer Stingers 7 South Calgary Geckos 1
TWEEN A North West Shok 8 Sherwood Pk. Velocity 7
TWEEN B South Calgary Velocity 3 North West Toxic 0
JUNIOR A St. Albert Excel 3 Cal-North Force 2
JUNIOR B Medicine Hat Impulse 7 Cal-North Raze 4
BELLE A Cal-North Hype 8 Red Deer Hazard 5
BELLE B Cal-North Blaze 5 Cal-North Apex 2
2008 Alberta Winter Games

SouthView Synergy came home with Silver from the Winter Games in Leduc. Team Synergy went undefeated throughout the round robin and semi finals only to come up against a very tough team from Sherwood Park in the finals. The team from Edmonton took home Bronze. Congratulations to the girls who gave it everything they had and to Zone 3 (Calgary) for winning the Alberta Cup (most medal points at the games over all).
Thank you to the town of Leduc, Ringette Alberta and all the wonderful volunteers for their contribution to the Winter Games. It was a fabulous experience for all the girls and their families!!

U of C Ringette Club
Were the Gold Medal Winners at the University Challenge Cup - Ottawa, Jan 2-6, 2008. They beat the U of A in the final, score 2-0.
www.canadianuniversityringette.ca
Bow View "Bad News Bunnies" participating in the Airdrie Ring of Fire

Junior A Luja got Silver in Red Deer Friends on Ice Tournament
Southview Junior A teams take both Gold (Synergy) and Silver (Magnum) at Medicine Hat Ed Horvath Tournament Feb. 8-10. Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Southview Junior A Synergy
Junior A PROVINCIAL Champions


2008 Alberta Winter Games
Congratulations to
Southview Junior A Synergy who will represent Calgary at the Alberta Winter games in Leduc from February 14 to 17.


Here is a photo of Team Alberta.  Looking forward to the Western Canadian Championships - March 26-29.


TEAM ALBERTA
(Southview Synergy)

wins GOLD at the Western Canadian Ringette Championships in Prince George.  The team played amazing against a tough team from Saskatchewan to win the final 4-1, after having lost to them in the round robin.   A big part of the win goes to our amazing goaltender Emily Britton.  Congratulation to Samantha MacLean (center) and Gillian Griffin (forward), who were named to the Junior A All Star team.

What an amazing team!!  What an amazing year, taking gold in the cities, provincials and Westerns as well as a Silver medal in the Alberta Winter Games.   Thanks goes out to all the Coaches and parents for their contributions and support though out the year!!!

Petite AA SWAT
won bronze at the Provincial Championships

Calgary Tween AA Voltage
Third place in the West Edmonton Mall Wood Tournament.
They managed to win third without losing a single game!


Calgary Tween AA Voltage
Silver Medal in the Esso Golden Ring Tournament


Calgary Voltage Tween AA
won Gold in the Regina Jim Benning Tournament. Left photo shows team and coaches, Right photo shows Silver Medalists Zone 5 Pressure + Voltage


Tween AA Voltage
attended the GCRA 33RD ANNUAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
held in Ottawa Feb 7 – 10
Voltage finished second in the tournament to a very tough team from Whitby. They were fortunate to play 4 teams from Ontario and 2 from Quebec that they’d never played before. The tournament was very well organized with a very high level of competition. A bonus for this competition was that the Team got to take part in activities of the Ottawa Winter festival in addition to Ottawa’s usual sights.

Lacombe AA Tournament
Junior AA CRUX won Gold.
Tween AA CREW won bronze


Calgary Tween AA Crew
went looking for ‘Nessie’ in Saskatoon.  There was a sighting and she was ‘Bronze’


Calgary Crew
went east to search the St. Lawrence, they ended up finding GOLD in Montreal


Calgary Junior AA Colla
after their GOLD Medal win in Regina


Calgary Junior AA – Team COLLA
won Gold at the Wood Tournament


Calgary Colla(Junior AA)
won the gold medal at the Bernadette Price Memorial Ringette Tournament in Saskatoon


Belle AA
won gold at the Regina Jim Benning Tournament


Junior AA Crux
won a silver medal at the Wood Tournament


Junior AA Crux
participated in the GCRA 33rd Annual Tournament February 7 – 10 in Ottawa. In addition to playing in a great tournament and facing strong teams from Ontario and Montreal, Team Crux, Coaches and Parents had a blast touring Ottawa and participating in fun Winterlude activities.

Junior AA Crux celebrates after winning GOLD at Provincials. Crux defeated Calgary Colla 5-4 in overtime in a tremendous final game, after going undefeated through the round robin.


Team Alberta 2008-Junior AA


TEAM ALBERTA IN NATIONALS
Team Alberta won bronze at Nationals

Awards for Team Alberta
Team Alberta congratulates Carolina Romeo for being one of the five athletes in Canada to win the 2008 Agnes Jacks Scholarship Award

Bob Curran congratulates Carolina Romeo for being named to the Junior ALLSTAR TEAM

 

Executive:

President

Adrian Shorter

VP Administration

Linda Shorter

VP League

Darwyn Miles

VP Technical

Jim Hepburn

VP Publicity

Sandi McNeill

Treasurer

Laura Webb

Ringette Alberta Rep

Greg Gaudet

Directors:

EGRT Liaison

Laura Webb

Facilities DIrector

Iveah Hutchison

Bingo Director

Vacant

Gaming Director

Barb Cook

Sponsorship

Sandi McNeill

Officials Developmen

Rick Hann

Sport Development

Laurene Prefontaine

Ice Scheduling

Adrian Shorter

Education Liaison

Vacant

AA Director

Laurie Miller

Bow View Rep

Shawna Pollock

Northwest Rep

Mark Ward

South Calgary Rep

Paul Geddes

Calgary East Rep

Ron Crawford

Staff:

Administration

Marlayne Brandsgard

Accountant

Gail Kerr


2007-08 League Division Coordinators
BUNNY COORDINATOR

Shelley Geddes

NOVICE COORDINATOR

Gail Hall

PETITE COORDINATOR

Petra Buziak

TWEEN COORDINATOR

Lee Anne Beesley

JUNIOR COORDINATOR

Colleen Lee-Black

BELLE COORDINATOR

Teresa O’Byrne

OPEN COORDINATOR

Terry Clark




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