Female hockey rosters announced for 2014 Manitoba Winter Games
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- Published on Friday, December 6, 2013
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Hockey Manitoba released the rosters for the female hockey competition at the 2014 Manitoba Winter Games.
Every fourth season, the Games, which take place March 2-8 in Morden, Stanley and Winkler, act as the first phase of the Hockey Manitoba Program of Excellence (POE) and replaces the program's spring tournament.
The Parkland under-18 team includes several local players including Neepawa's Shaeylen Leflar, Abby Krzyzaniak and Jalin Adams, as well as McKenna Paddock of Rivers and Mallory Workman of Onanole.
Other players on the squad include Hamiota's Kenzie Robinson, Sam Geekie of Strathclair, Hannah Fouillard of St. Lazare, Emma Coulter of Hamiota, as well as Foxwarren's Tashel Scantlebury.
Both U-16 male and U-18 female programs will use the Manitoba Winter Games to identify players to move on to the P.O.E. Top-40 camp held in May.
Team are made up from eight Sport Manitoba regions which slightly differ from the 10 Hockey Manitoba regional boundaries; Central, Eastman, Interlake, Norman, Parkland, Westman, Winnipeg-Blue, Winnipeg-Gold.
The U-18 Program of Excellence and male Manitoba Games competition will feature the top players born in 1997, 1998, or 1999 vying for a potential spot on the U-18 Team Manitoba roster next season. Team Manitoba will compete at the 2015 Canada Winter Games to be held in Prince George, BC.
For a full listing of all the rosters, click here.
With files from Hockey Manitoba release