The Westman Wildcats would like to congratulate Jaycee Magwood, Melissa Hunt, Jaedon Cooke, and Ashton Bell who have all been selected to represent Team Manitoba at the 2015 Canada Winter Games. The Wildcats program is very proud of your accomplishments. See article from Hockey Manitoba below:

ROSTERS ANNOUNCED FOR 2015 CANADA WINTER GAMES

Hockey Manitoba is proud to announce the rosters for U-16 Team Manitoba and U-18 Team Manitoba who will compete at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, BC.

After nearly a yearlong process of the Program of Excellence (POE), the selection and development process for Team Manitoba, the final twenty players for each roster have been identified. Each program began last season with invitations selections for the 2014 Manitoba Games that continued with various camps and evaluations until October for the U-18 program and all the way until mid-December for the U-16 program.

The U-18 roster includes 11 returning players from the 2013 National Women’s U-18 Championship where Team Manitoba finished in 5th place. The roster also includes four players who recently attended the U-18 Team Canada selection camp Dec 10-14 in Hamilton, ON. Randi Marcon (Winnipeg) of the St. Mary’s Academy Flames has been named captain of the team along with Bracken, Oswald, and Hunt as alternate captains.

Click here for the 2015 Canada Winter Games U-18 Team Manitoba roster

Both programs finished 5th at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax. Previously both programs finished 2nd with silver medals at the 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, YK. Prince George, BC will take centre stage as they welcome the country’s best young developing athletes from February 13 – March 1, 2015. The next generation of national and international champions will compete in 24 selected sports representing the best that their province or territory has to offer. The Canada Games will host similar number of athletes as the Olympic Games, Team Manitoba will be represented by 248 athletes, 72 coaches and managers, and 20 mission staff.

The Westman Wildcats defeated the Pembina Valley Hawks 3-1 last night in Holland. Jaycee Magwood got the Wildcats on the board with a shorthanded breakaway goal during a 5 minute penalty kill midway through the period. Missy Hunt assisted on the goal. Ashton Bell followed up with a goal late in the period with the assists going to Jossa Danis and Jaycee Magwood. The period ended with a 2-0 Wildcats lead.  Shots on goal in the period were 15-8 in favour of Westman.

In the 2nd period, Missy Hunt extended the lead to 3-0 on a shot from the point.  Mackenzie Roach assisted on the play. Shots in the period were 11-5 in favour of Westman. 

In the 3rd period, the Hawks managed to pull within two goals with just under 8 minutes to play in the game but that is all they would muster and the Wildcats skated to a 3-1 victory.  Shots on goal in the period were 11-6 in favour of Westman.  

Jenna Marshall picked up the victory in net.  Final shots were 37-19 in favour of Westman.

The Wildcats face the Winnipeg Avros at 4:45 PM today in Winnipeg.

The Wildcat program rings in the Xmas holidays with the help of their alumni.  The wildcats will once again  host their annual

Wildcats Alumni vs Westman Wildcats game 

Hartney Arena

Monday, December 22nd

7:00 pm- 9:00pm

Whether you are still actively playing the game or not we hope you are able to join us.  With many of the Alumni returning from their university/college teams for the holidays it is a good way to get old and new together to catch up on everyone’s activities for the first half of the season or for the opportunity to reconnect with some of those old teammates/coaches you have not seen for years.

We hope you are able to join us on December 22.  We have tried to connect with all former Wildcats but please pass this on as we do not have all addresses for former Wildcat players.  If you could let us know if you will be attending and what you have been doing since graduating that would be appreciated.

You can respond to us at mphunt@live.com or atbell2000@yahoo.ca

Hope to see you at the rink on December 22nd.

   We are pleased to announce that forrmer Westman Wildcat forward Karissa Kirkup is returning home to attend school at and play hockey for the University of Manitoba.

Kirkup, 19, is a 5'6" forward that played for University of Maine in 2013-14 and for the Westman Wildcats (Manitoba Female Midget Hockey League) from 2009-13. In the 2012-13 season Kirkup notched 13 points (five goals, eight assists) in 30 games plus was named Hockey East Rookie of the week for the wk. of Dec. 3/13 while at Maine. The Virden, MB native played four seasons with the Wildcats with her best statistical season being 2012-13 when she potted 102 points (41g and 61a) and was selected as MFMHL 1st  Team All-Star along with Mac's tournament MVP and top plus/minus award winner that season. For three consecutive seasons (2010-11, '11-12, '12-13), Kirkup was Westman leading scorer and was team captain (2012-13) and assistant captain (2010-11, '11-12). In addition, she has played for Team Manitoba in 2012 (silver medal) and 2011 (bronze) while being selected to U-22 Team Canada off-ice conditioning camp and on-ice development camp in 2013.

Bison Head Coach States this about Kirkup: "Karissa brings experience from a number of different levels to our program." "She is a balanced player with great vision, playmaking skills and impressive hockey sense who makes players around her better. Karissa also understands how to play both ends of the ice, and is a player that we believe will add even more depth and strength to a very solid young group of players in our program. We are very pleased to have Karissa as a member of the Bison women's hockey program."

Westman Wildcats wishes Karissa all the best with her future academic and hockey endeavors while at the University of Manitoba.

CONGRATS KARISSA!

The Wildcats defeated the Red Deer Chiefs 3-2 on Friday afternoon to go 3-1 in round robin play.  Scoring for the Wildcats were Ashton Bell (assisted by Jossa Danis), Jaedon Cooke (unassisted), and Kenzie Robinson (assisted by KJ Wallace and Mackenzie Roach).  

Final shots on net were 49-16 in favour of Westman.  Jenna Marshall picked up the win in net.  

CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST OF LUCK TO MISSY AS SHE CONTINUES HER JOURNEY TO TEAM CANADA

CALGARY, Alta. – Twenty-eight of the country’s top young female players will be on the ice beginning Wednesday at North Wentworth Arena in Hamilton, Ont., for Canada’s National Women’s Team selection camp, which runs from Dec. 10-14.

The roster includes three goaltenders, nine defencemen and 16 forwards and features three players who helped Canada win gold at the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship in Budapest, Hungary.

Following the selection camp, 23 players will be chosen to represent Canada at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship from Jan. 5-12 at HarborCenter in Buffalo, N.Y.

The players will be on the ice for five days in Hamilton and will square off against the Ontario University Athletics All-Stars on Dec. 12 (7 p.m. ET) and Dec. 14 (11 a.m. ET) at North Wentworth Arena. 

For more information on Hockey Canada and Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team, please visitwww.hockeycanada.ca, or follow along through social media at www.facebook.com/hockeycanada,www.twitter.com and www.twitter.com/hc_women.

Jossa Danis scored two goals, both on the powerplay, to lead the Westman Wildcats to a 4-3 come from behind victory this morning.  Ashton Bell and Jaycee Magwood picked up one goal each with Magwood's goal coming with just over a minute remaining in the game.  Jaycee Magwood also had 3 assists. The Wildcats had to overcome a 3-1 deficit midway through the 2nd period en route to the victory.  

 The Wildcats were defeated 3-0 (Empty Net) by a very tenacious Swift Current squad that did not allow the Wildcats many clean opportunities to get the puck to the net.  Both goals were scored in the 2nd period, one on a 5-3 penalty against.