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Grow the Game: Help St. John’s College Get a Women’s Varsity Team Monday at Verizon Center

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The St. John’s College High School’s girls hockey club will play Academy of the Holy Cross on Verizon Center ice on Monday, February 22 at 3 PM. The game is SJC’s big chance to establish a real women’s varsity team. SJC player and student Sabrina L. writes:

Up until this past November, my school, St. John’s College High School has only had a boys/co-ed hockey team. It was really only co-ed when the occasional girl would try out. We were lucky that our coach, Paul Wardour, started up a girls club team when his daughter started going to St. John’s this past fall. The team officially started mid-November with very few girls as fall sports were in playoffs. As volleyball and field hockey ended, we gained almost 10 more people including a goalie.

Many of us, myself included, had no real hockey experience outside of our love for the sport. Some of us had never even skated before. At the beginning of the season, we would come off the ice covered in snow and the few players who had been playing for years would be the only ones with shots on goal. Two months later and almost everybody has a shot on goal, people scored or assisted for the first time ever, and we are much better skaters. We’ve worked very hard to get to where we are and Coach Paul Wardour, Coach John Benziger, Coach Jake Caldwell, and Coach Miles Hamilton are to thank for that.

We all love our team, our school, and we love our program, but right now we’re paying for most of our ice time and transportation. We are technically a “club” and not part of the St. John’s Athletic Department. We are hoping that this season earns us funding from our athletic budget and then we don’t have to pay for everything. This would make us a varsity sport.

This upcoming Monday, February 22nd, at 3pm (anyone attending must be there at 2:15 pm in order to gain entry from the Caps staff), we play Academy of the Holy Cross on the Verizon Center ice. Plus, the tickets are free and anyone can watch! This is an amazing opportunity and we’re excited to show everyone that we’ve got what it takes to be a varsity sport. My teammates and I (mostly me) have been relentlessly tweeting Capitals players in the hopes they come watch our game. We know that it’s a long shot, but we are really hoping they’ll stop by for a bit.

We play for each other and the future of the St. John’s Girls Hockey program. GO JOHNNIES! #GrowTheGame

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