NewsPage 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 May 11, 2008, 9:43 pm Westman Wildcats Brittany Phillips Named to Hockey Canada's U18 National Female Camp
The Westman Wildcats are extremely proud to announce that Brittany Phillips has been named to Hockey Canada's National U18 Female Camp at the end of May. Brittany, from Lauder, MB is a grade 11 student at Hartney High school and a member of the Westman Wildcats Female hockey team. Brittany was a member of Manitoba's Bronze medal U18 team at Kitchener last November at Hockey Canada's U18 National Championships.
Hockey Canada's National Women's Team head coach/general manager Melody Davidson announced on Friday that 47 of the country's top under-18 women's players will converge on Calgary from May 22-25, 2008 for a strength, conditioning and skating camp. Players invited to this strength and conditioning/skating camp were selected by Melody Davidson and Hockey Canada's regional scouts in cooperation with club teams and Hockey Canada's 13 member branches. Hockey Canada will also use the camp as an opportunity to get to know the players and give them off-ice training techniques, as well as proper nutritional guidance. Using the 2007-08 on-ice evaluation, performance at this camp and, for the goaltenders, their performance at a June goaltenders' camp, Hockey Canada officials will make their selections for a July under-18 camp, which will lead to selections for the National Women's Under-18 Team for the 2008-09 season. Apr 30, 2008, 8:49 am
Westman Wildcats Try Out Camp Aug 8th-10th
The Westman Wildcats will hold their 2008-2009 try out camp at the Sportsplex in Brandon on August 8th-10th.
This camp is open to any female hockey player born in 1991-1992-1993 that is playing or living in the Westman region.
The camp will begin Friday, August 8th in the evening an on ice session. Saturday will continue with two on ice sessions and conclude with a Sunday scrimmage and an announcement of the 2008-2009 Westman Wildcat team.
The season will begin on September 2nd with dry land training, classroom whiteboard instruction and on ice for the month of September with 3 a week on ice practices beginning in October.
The program has tentatively set its tournament schedule with the major tournament being; Little Caesars in Detroit, Minnesota Thoroughbreds in St. Paul, Notre Dame Hounds in Wilcox, Mac's in Calgary, The Comets in Saskatoon, Our own Wildcats in Hartney as well as the Shattuck St. Mary's Series in Faribault.
Letters will be sent out to all players registered in the Westman region for dates, times and registration process. As well updated information will be found on this website.
For more information contact
Director Of Hockey Operations Wes Phillips 1-204-858-2436 wesbend@xplornet.com
Apr 17, 2008, 9:08 am
Westman Wildcats Complete Inaugural Season
The Westman Wildcats Female Midget hockey team completed a very successful 2007-2008 inaugural campaign
The Wildcats played 50 games this season and had a record of 33-16-1 in tournament and exhibition play.
The Westman squad played in 8 Midget AAA tournaments in Western Canada and The United States as well as three different mini-series with Manitoba Regional teams, and included a series at Shattuck St Mary's in Minnesota. Single exhibition games were played with teams from the Saskatchewan AAA female league, US Colleges, Manitoba Regional teams as well as Winnipeg AA and Balmoral Hall.
This season allowed the young athletes to compete against the best female midget talent in North America and to help develop their skills against the top programs in female hockey.
The players were exposed to many colleges and the team's players were charted and scouted by Hockey Canada for inclusion in Team Canada's U18 and U22 programs. With close to 30 NCAA, CIS, ACHA, ACAC schools actively recruiting Westman Wildcat players, it has given many the opportunity to continue their education and hockey.
This closes the page on the winter season with seven graduating players moving on, the Westman Wildcat tryout camp August 15-17 will prove to be a spirited affair with players vying for the opportunity to be the next "WILDCATS".
Apr 14, 2008, 1:28 pm
2007-2008 Westman Wildcat Team Stats
The Westman Wildcats finished out their 2007-2008 season on the weekend with a loss in the Bronze game to Warner Warriors of the Warner Hockey School at the Balmoral Hall Great White North Invitational Tournament.
2007-2008 Season Synapsis
The Wildcats finished out with 33 wins 16 losses and 1 tie in the 50 games they played.
The Westman squad scored 229 goals, for a 4.58 GF average. The team gave up 109 goals for a GAA of 2.18.
The squad was given 552 minutes in penalties, 11.04 minutes a game.
7 of the teams 16 losses were one-goal affairs while 3 were two goal games. The Cats were only able to win 3 one-goal games while winning 5 two-goal games and 25 wins were by 3 or more goals.
4 of the Teams 16 losses came at the hands of Balmoral Hall, while the team had 2 losses each to Shattuck's St. Mary's and the Calgary Flyers. Apr 8, 2008, 7:50 am
Westman's Williams &Vanbuskirk Sign with SAIT & Lethbridge
Westman Wildcats Midget Female hockey team is proud to announce the signing of their two captains for the 2008-2009 year.
Seniors Amanda Williams and Amy Vanbuskirk with both be packing their hockey bags and going west to continue their education and hockey careers this fall.
Senior Amy Vanbuskirk from Brandon has signed with the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns who plays in Canada West of the CIS.
Vanbuskirk a senior in Crocus Plains, will be patrolling the blueline for the Pronghorns for the next 5 seasons and is going to add a steadying, mature influence to their program.
Williams, a grade 12 student at the Souris High School will be suiting up with the SAIT Trojans in Calgary of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference.
Williams, a defenseman from Souris, will be joining fellow Westman product Jordan Lonsberry of Virden who joined the Trojans last season.
Both Williams and Vanbuskirk were captains on this years Wildcats squad and have garnered a lot of attention from different schools throughout the year so it is understandable that both of these Alberta schools are excited to land these two standout defensemen to their respective programs.
It is also an exciting opportunity for both of these athletes to be able to continue their education as well as being able to play a varsity sport at these institutions. Apr 3, 2008, 9:27 am
Westman Blue/White Games Huge Success
The Westman Wildcats and the Westman Bantam Challenge teams competed in a series of intersquad scrimmages that can only be summed up by being called a huge success.
With both teams getting ready for big tournaments next weekend these game situations helped to prepare both teams.
On Tuesday night Team Blue was able to edge Team White an offensive game by a 6-4 score. Wednesday saw a more defensive game with Team White turning the tables and recording a 3-2 win to even the series.
Mar 31, 2008, 11:41 pm
3 goalies rotating; Lacey Adams
Brianne McFarlane
Darby Peaslee Mar 28, 2008, 8:46 am
Wildcats to Host Regional Blue White Scrimmage
Hartney will be the host for the Blue White scrimmages to be held Tuesday April 1st and Wednesday April 2nd for the Westman Bantam Challenge players and the Westman Wildcats.
The two teams will be split up for a pair of scrimmages each evening. This will give the Wildcats some much-needed game practice while the Bantams will have the opportunity to challenge themselves at the next level.
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