Rusty Blades Babes Women's Page

NEW!!! A Women and Girls Only Practice. Monday nights, 7:15-8:15, for just $10, we will have a practice just for females of all ages. We'll work on skating and puck skills as well as systems and strategies. It's a great time for women and girls who want to learn the sport without the boys involved. (Although our coaches will be male!). So come on out!!

We, the Rusty Babes, are the women's segment of the Rusty Blades.

One day, during our coed practice, we realized that we had enough women to form our own team and play against other women's teams.

Our first foray into women's hockey was to play in Richardson, TX at the ICE Training Center in April 2007, against each of the 4 teams of the Richardson Women's Hockey League. They were even gracious enough to loan us a goalie for all 4 games, and all the women were absolutely awesome! Here's a really cool write-up of those games.

We played in the "Summer Blast" women's tournament on Memorial Day weekend 2007 in their novice division in Richardson, TX. And we actually won 2 games!! Here's a great write-up on that tournament as well: Click here.

We went to St. Louis to play against the St. Louis Ice Queens and the St. Louis Green Surge teams, February 22-24, 2008. We had a blast with these girls! Lost again, but oh, well.

We played in the Nashville Noteworthy Women's Tournament April 25-26, 2008 as a combined team with the St. Louis Ice Queens. We lost, but we had a great time and you could tell that we all really improved over the weekend.

We returned to the Dallas Summer Blast Tournament May 23-25, 2008, with only 8 skaters (Simone, Laura, Vanessa, Jess, Dawna, Susie, Melissa, and Sara from Springfield, with Maryanne in goal). We lost 7-1, 2-1, and 5-1, but won the Consolation game 5-3 to take 3rd place again!

We are hoping to host a women's novice tournament here in Little Rock around Halloween 2008, so if you'd like to play in it, please let me know!