First North Female hockey camp long time in making
The idea to put on the first North Female Hockey Program Summer Camp August 17-19 in Prince Albert has been in the making for over half a decade.
The idea for this camp actually dates back to 2009, when the Sami-Jo Small visited Prince Albert as the guest speaker for the Special O/Raider Education Fund Power Breakfast. Small actually arrived in the city a little early so some ice time was found and Small skated with some of Prince Albert’s young hockey players.
“It was so successful that the parents had talked about ‘well, we should do something like a summer camp, we should do this because the girls loved it.’ It was sort of put on the backburner because no one stepped up to do it,” said Al Dyer, committee member. “When this last hockey season was done, again the parents were ‘jeez, we should maybe think about do something this summer and a group of decided, well, let’s not think about it anymore, let’s just do it.
“We were fortunate enough to find some ice and very fortunate to get a number of girls that have played pretty good hockey to instruct them.”