Six Medicine Hat ringette players qualify for Alberta Winter Games

“All my years of playing and skating and showing my love for ice sports finally paid off and I was just so grateful.”

It was through a late night email that the teammates heard they qualified.

“It was super late and my mom texted me…she was screaming and I was just so happy,” Leighton Wright said.

Want, Wright and three others will be representing zone one in the Games.

A sixth player, 12-year-old Breanna Lanuk of the U14 Mayhem, also qualified.

“I’m looking forward to meeting the girls who maybe have done this before,” Lanuk said.

Many of the qualified ringette players have grown up in the Medicine Hat Ringette Association with some starting as young as five years old.

Coach Rebecca Jackiw said its an association built on giving back to the sport that raised you.

“A lot of our U14 and U16 players are junior coaches for our association teams, younger U10 and U12 teams,” Jackiw said.

“And so they’ve already shown that they’re giving back to their sport, that they’re great female ambassadors of our ringette sport, as well as being just an athletic woman in today’s day and age.”

“They are going to represent our sport well.”

For Want and Wright, this will be their first and only opportunity to play ringette in the Alberta Winter Games.

Lanuk will have one more shot at it in two years.

by Lisa Parent

Six Medicine Hat ringette players qualify for Alberta Winter Games

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