Women's Hockey Team

During the 1920s, woman’s hockey was becoming a big deal. Teams and leagues were forming all over Canada and in some parts on the United States. During that time period at Concordia, the woman’s hockey team was only an intramural team. The organized women's game declined after World War II and throughout the 1950s and '60s was regarded as little more than a curiosity. Hockey was assumed to be the preserve of men and boys. Because of that decline, women had to start trying to get on to boys teams in order to play the sport. Most of the girls trying to join boy teams were rejected because of their sex, but woman’s hockey slowly gained popularity again. A revival of woman’s hockey began in the 1960s and as the new generation of players grew up they demanded a chance to play at colleges and universities. Concordia was one place that women had the opportunity to play at the college level. Now Concordia’s woman’s hockey team is one of the more successful teams in the MIAC.

          [1] Mary B. Norton et al., A People & A Nation (Boston: Wadsworth, 2012), 791.

          [3] Carroll Engelhardt, On Firm Foundation Grounded (Moorhead: Concordia College, 1991; Digital Horizons), 240, http://digitalhorizonsonline.org/u?/cord-hm,6.