S P O R T S RINGETTE ROCKS IN ROCKLAND
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Sunday morning outside of the CIHA Arena and a father and daughter head across the parking lot. She is skipping along behind her father as he carries her ringette stick in one hand. It’s another season of ringette and volunteers with the Clarence-Rockland Rin- gette Association (CRRA) are occupied with registration. Besides the returning players who form the Rockland Falcons, there is a new corps of little ones eager to sign up for the association’s Learn to Skate program for future ringette players ages three and four. “It went really well,” said Melissa Gau- dreau, CRRA president, smiling, adding 15 signups of players, ages 4 to 11 finished off the first open-house session. Clarence-Rockland has had a ringetter group for at least two decades. The sport remains popular with girls but Gaudrea noted that this year they have one little boy signed
C’est l’heure de la ringuette ! L’Association de ringuette de Clarence-Rockland a organisé une séance d’inscription ouverte, au cours du weekend du 3 octobre, à l’aréna de l’Académie canadienne internationale de hockey. Les parents qui ont manqué la séance d’inscription peuvent toujours contacter l’association par le biais de son site Web pour inscrire leurs enfants. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
One of the volunteer ringette says hello to a potential new star player. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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Time for ringette! The Clarence-Rockland Ringette Association hosted an open-house registration session over the October 3 weekend at the Canadian International Hockey Academy Arena. Parents who missed the registration session can still contact the association through its website about getting their children signed up. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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very much a team sport and the chance to get together for fun and play is what most of the children enjoy. “We often get ‘Aw, is it over?’” Gaudreau said, laughing, about the common response when a practice session ends. Open registration for this year’s ringette session finishes by the Thanksgiving long weekend. But Gaudreau noted that the association will always accept calls later from parents of children who want to sign up later in the year.
up for the CRRA’s Learn to Skate program. The CR Falcons play recreational ringette for the most part, though Gaudreau noted that the community used to field a compe- titive ringette team in past years. That may happen again as the sport continues to grow in popularity and once the pandemic ends and the restrictions on organized team sports end. Local players range in age from three to 12. Besides the recreational benefits of the sport, Gaudreau noted that ringette is
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