Australian Women’s Ice Hockey League
Rush win their first against Sirens
by Tom Basso 24 February 2018: GAME 1 – ADELAIDE RUSH (4), SYDNEY SIRENS (2) In their last weekend of home matches for the 2017/2018 season, there was no more difficult an assignment for Adelaide Rush then the formidable Sydney Sirens. The reigning champions still sat atop the AWIHL table despite suffering their first blemish of… Read more »
Officiating Shines on the World Stage
Ice Hockey South Australia game official Beth Bowshall was invited by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association to officiate games in the Swedish Women’s Hockey League (SWHL) or Svenska damhockeyligan (SDHL) – the top women’s league in the country. The league is regarded as the best women’s hockey league in Europe and consists of players from… Read more »
AW Rd 3 Wrap: Rush v Ice
Adelaide Rush vs Melbourne Ice – 2-3 December 2017 GAME 1 – ADELAIDE RUSH (2), MELBOURNE ICE (3) Melbourne Ice travelled to Adelaide’s IceArenA for both teams final weekend of games prior to the Christmas break. From the outset, the game was played with high intensity, no doubt partly due to the Adelaide Rush… Read more »
Victorian Government supports women in sport – AW Finals in Melbourne
PRESS RELEASE – 8 November 2017 The Commissioner of the AWIHL, Melissa Rulli is very pleased to announce that Sport Recreation Victoria is providing a Significant Sporting Events Program: Event Assistance Grant to hold the AWIHL Finals in Melbourne on March 17-18th 2018 at the OBGA in Docklands, Melbourne. Minister for Sport John Eren… Read more »
Our new AWIHL site is live!
Ice Hockey Australia are very proud to announce the launch of the new AWIHL website. Many months in the planning has seen it come together to be the go to place for all news and information for the Australian Women’s Ice Hockey League. www.iha.org.au/awihl/ Each team in the league has their own page within this… Read more »
| Regular Season |
|---|
| Team | GP | W | L | T | OW | OL | SOW | SOL | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sirens | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Ice | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Goannas | 12 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Rush | 12 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Recent games |
|---|
| Sunday 18 March 2018 5:00 pm | ||||
| Sydney Sirens (2) vs Melbourne Ice (4) |
| Sunday 18 March 2018 2:30 pm | ||||
| Brisbane Goannas (2) vs Adelaide Rush (1) |
| Saturday 17 March 2018 5:30 pm |
| Melbourne Ice (5) vs Brisbane Goannas (1) |
| Top 10 Players |
|---|
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Pinkerton | 12 | 14 | 12 | 26 |
| Sharna Godfrey | 12 | 11 | 10 | 21 |
| Stephenie Cochrane | 12 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| Kristelle Mariz Van Der Wolf | 12 | 5 | 14 | 19 |
| Natalie Ayris | 12 | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| Christina Julien | 11 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| Ashley Pelkey | 12 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| Shona Powell | 10 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| Amelia Matheson | 12 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| Erin Beaver | 10 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| Top 11 Goalies |
|---|
| Goalie | GP | W | GAA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imogen Perry | 4 | 3 | 1.46 | 0.943 |
| Jenelle Carson | 5 | 3 | 1.53 | 0.936 |
| Ella Licari | 10 | 9 | 1.13 | 0.936 |
| Ruth Brophy | 3 | 3 | 1.67 | 0.895 |
| Ashleigh Brown | 4 | 0 | 3.96 | 0.886 |
| Tina Girdler | 4 | 0 | 3.75 | 0.876 |
| Keesha Atkins | 9 | 3 | 4.08 | 0.871 |
| Joanne Phillis | 5 | 0 | 5.28 | 0.826 |
| Paula Keen | 4 | 2 | 2.75 | 0.789 |
| Tara Woods | 5 | 2 | 4.01 | 0.741 |
| Kaitie Facaris | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
Joan is our Legend.Joan McKowen
Honoured Member
Hockey Hall of Fame Australia
IT IS SAID a reading of the history of Joan McKowen is an instructive introduction to the meaning of love, commitment and unquestioned dedication. Born in Alexandria Victoria in 1929, Joan trained to become a nurse and married Max in Gardenvale in 1949. The fledgling, but active, Victorian Ice Hockey Development Council relied considerably on Joan's help preparing state teams, running development clinics, and coordinating summer camps, from 1972 until 1989 when she relocated to Canberra. Joan qualified as a remedial masseuse in 1982, complementing Max's work in sport's medicine.
The national secretary identified Max and Joan as a couple on whom the organisation could rely when it entered international competition for the first time with junior aged teams. From her first national in Romania in 1983, to the 1992 National Youth Team the year she died, Joan fulfilled a variety of formal functions, ranging from equipment manager to statistician, assistant manager to sports medicine trainer. She was a woman of intelligence with a cutting wit who was never short of a quip, a smile or a hug.
Max and Joan were fixtures in the ice hockey community, in Victoria, nationally, and in the ACT. So it was, the McKowen Memorial Trophy came into being for the National Women's Ice Hockey Championships, in honour of a tireless worker, a wonderful human being, who touched all of those with whom she had contact.
Hockey biography
icelegendsaustralia.com/legends-2/bio_mckowen.html
Jury
Allan Harvey, Rick Williams, Anthony Wilson, Stephen Kilgariff, David Turik, Mick Simmons, Rylie Padjen, Kylie Taylor, Glenn Grandy, Paul Rice.
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