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Welcome to another Edition
Its been a few months since our last newsletter and a lot of activity has occurred with ringette in our Province. It may be April but ringette has not slowed down. Read on to find out how successful our Manitoba athletes were outside our province, upcoming events and opportunities for your athlete, volunteer options for our ringette parents, and some generally fun stories.
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to others and encourage them to signup on our website. This newsletter is one of our ways of promoting the sport we all love and staying in touch with you.
Respectively,
Roman Romaniw
MRA Publicity
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Manitoba Shines at the Westerns
 This years Western Ringette Championships were held in Regina March 28th to 30th. Manitoba sent a team at each of the following levels: Open 1, U19 A, U16 A and U14 AA. All our Manitoba athletes represented us well with two teams going to the gold medal rounds. U19 A came home with a silver and the U14 AA's came home with gold. For more information on how all our teams did at the Western Ringette Championships, you can visit the 2013 website at www.wcrc2013.ca. Manitoba will be hosting the Western Championships in 2014. If you want to be part of the excitement, email the committee at wcrcvolunteers@hotmail.com. |
Manitoba Successes at the CRC's
The Canadian Ringette Championships were held in Fredericton this past week. This event is a grueling marathon of games with teams potentially playing up to 11 games in six short days. It truly tests our athletes endurance and skills against the top teams in the country.
Manitoba sent two teams at U16 AA (Magic-Team MB and Angels), U19 AA (Magic-Team MB and Angels) and our own NRL team, Prairie Fire. All the teams did amazingly well with two of our teams, U19 Team Manitoba and Prairie Fire, making it to the Gold finals on Saturday April 6th and are other U19 Team, Angels, making it to the Bronze medal game.
All three teams had a hard fought final game and we are proud of them all. U19 Team Manitoba and Prairie Fire both came home with Silver.
Manitoba athletes have proven themselves on a National scale and we are only getting better. Next years CRC's are in Regina, a short 6 hour drive and a great opportunity to see the best ringette in Canada if not the world !
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50th Celebrations
We have put together a committee to help organize the Manitoba events around the 50th Anniversary of ringette. It's going to be a great year long party so if you want to be part of it, contact the MRA office and be part of the fun.
Manitoba will be hosting various events including the Ringette Canada Roadshow on November 9th, 2013.
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MRA Bursary and Scholarships
 The MRA is offering up to 6 bursaries of $750 each towards post secondary schooling for players in their 3rd. year of U19 A, B and AA levels. The number of bursaries to be offered at each level are two $750 bursaries at U19A, two $750 bursaries at U19B and two $750 bursaries at U19AA. Details and application form are available here.
A Scholarship is also available to provide first year University students with awards up to $500.00 to ensure that they can pursue their educational goals and continue to be engaged in an athletic program if they desire. Application form is available here.
Deadline for Bursaries and the Scholarship is April 15th, so apply soon!
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Manitoba Winter Games
Ringette is very pleased to be part of the 2014 Power Smart Manitoba Winter Games being hosted by Morden-Stanley-Winkler. Our sport's competition takes place during Phase 1 - March 2nd to 5th in Morden. The Power Smart Winter Games are the Province's largest ongoing multi-sport event. They are held every two years, alternating between summer and winter sports and involve upwards of 1800 participants at the provincial level who are selected from thousands of others at qualifying events across the Province in the year leading up to the event.
The 2014 Games will be open to U14 girls (born in 2000, 2001 or 2002 - U14AA players are not eligible). Each region will select only one team from all girls registered with the birth years listed. Those who are selected to represent their region will then compete against top players from all the other regions in the province where they will be able to showcase their skills and talents in a multi-faceted, multi-sport environment.
Regional camps run in April and May and more information found here. Coaches applications are now available on our MRA website and are due June 7, 2013.
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| Ringette Flash Mob
What is a flash mob you may ask? It is a group of people who without notice, assemble suddenly in a public place, perform for a brief time and then quickly disperse. Check out the first ever Ringette Flash Mob performed by 150 performers during intermission of a Ringette game in Vancouver catching both the Athletes and Fans by surprise.
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Winkler Camp
Summer Ringette Camp is full, and a waiting list has been started. If you are able to volunteer your time as a cabin mom it would open up more spots for girls to participate.
If you are interested in registering your child please send an application and cheque to the MRA office and we will place your child's name on the waiting list in the event more spaces become available. If you are volunteering to be a cabin mom your application will be given priority.
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Manitoba Proud
As the Executive Director for the MRA I would like to say how extremely proud I am of all our teams that participated in the CRC's and NRL Championship. To come home with two Silver medals (Team Manitoba U19 Magic and Prairie Fire, a fourth place finish (Angels U19) and a good showing for our two U16 teams, is certainly something to be proud of. All five teams represented our Province with class and displayed outstanding sportsmanship; you would not find better ambassadors for Manitoba. I'd also like to extend my thanks and appreciation to all our AA & NRL coaches, managers and trainers for their dedication to our sport and the untold number of hours they dedicated to their teams. Certainly last but not least, a big shout out to all those parents for their unwavering support of their daughters at the CRC's, it was unbelievable to witness the support they provided. It certainly did not go unnoticed, thank you.
Laralie Higginson
Executive Director
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