Junior Women's Hockey League

Junior Women's Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
Founded 2007
Country  United States
 Canada

The Junior Women's Hockey League is an ice hockey league established in 2007 (by Bill Driscoll and Kush Sidhu, coaches of North American Hockey Academy and the Washington Pride, respectively), in order to provide opportunities for young females to develop into collegiate student-athletes. A successful league since its first season, the JWHL has seen hundreds of players sign with NCAA Division-I or Division III schools since 2007. Over 20 JWHL players have skated for the U.S., Canadian, Czech, and Japanese Under-18 National teams. The JWHL was developed to bring together teams that regularly produce NCAA calibre players. The league started with 4 teams, expanding to 10 teams in the 2008-2009 season, and currently fields 12 teams, six of which are based in the US, and six based in Canada.

Seasonal Competition

Teams in the JWHL are assigned to a division (East or West), based mostly on where the organizations are located (but not always). Each team plays against the other teams in its division 3 times and against the teams in the other division 2 times during the regular season for a 27 game regular season. Following the regular season, a playoff is held to determine the JWHL Champion.

Games are played with three 20-minute stop-time periods with ice typically being resurfaced between periods. Most games in the US are played on college campuses. Games are played by USA Hockey or Hockey Canada rules depending on the location of the venue.

JWHL Challenge Cup

The JWHL's premier event takes place in mid-February with the hosting of the JWHL Challenge Cup.[1] The Challenge Cup brings together all of the JWHL teams as well as invited teams from across the US and Canada.[2] The Challenge Cup has been hosted by The Washington Pride in the Washington, DC area, and is supported by the NHL's Washington Capitals.

JWHL Teams

Major Junior East Division

Major Junior West Division

Championship

A list of JWHL winners (winner is in bold):

Site: University of North Dakota Ralph Englestad

Site: Edge Arena, Littleton, Colorado

Site: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Elizabeth 'Liz' Turgeon Memorial JWHL Player of the Year Award

Final Standing 2010-11 Regular Season

Major Junior East Division

on February 14, 2011
No. Team GP W L OTL GF GA Pts
1 North American Hockey Academy 27 25 1 1 16331 51
2 Washington Pride 27 13 8 6 96 78 32
3 National Sports Academy Mountaineers 27 12 13 2 88 98 26
4 Colorado Select27 10 14 3 81 110 23
5 Boston Shamrocks 27 0 26 1 20 148 1

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Major Junior West Division

on February 14, 2011
No. Team GP W L OTL GF GA Pts
1 Edge School Mountaineers 27 18 5 4 101 61 40
2 Balmoral Hall School Blazers 27 13 10 4 77 56 30
3 Minnesota Thoroughbreds 27 11 10 6 85 68 28
4 Warner School Warriors 27 12 12 3 79 87 27
5 Pacific Steelers 27 5 20 2 54 107 12

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Final Standing 2009-10 Regular Season

Major Junior East Division

No. Team GP W L OTL GF GA Pts
1 North American Hockey Academy 26 19 2 5 10448 43
2 Colorado Select 26 19 4 3 134 66 41
3 National Sports Academy Mountaineers 26 13 10 3 9781 29
4 Washington Pride 26 12 13 1 84 84 25
5 Boston Shamrocks 26 2 24 0 33 167 4

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Major Junior West Division

No. Team GP W L OTL GF GA Pts
1 Warner School Warriors 26 17 6 3 97 52 37
2 Minnesota Thoroughbreds 26 13 11 2 76 66 28
3 Edge School Mountaineers 26 12 11 3 82 71 27
4 Balmoral Hall School Blazers 26 8 15 3 56 79 19
5 Pacific Steelers 26 2 21 3 34 96 7

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Junior Division

The JWHL is sponsor of Junior Division ( formerly called Red Division). The teams below will be competing in the JWHL during the 2013-14 season in the U16 Division

See also

References

External links

JWHL Teams Websites

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