Illini Women's Hockey Beginner's Team
A place for our team to inspire each other through videos, text, and pictures; while watching ourselves grow and progress as a unified team.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Our Very First AWAY Game!
SOOOO excited for this weekend! I'm sure you all are, too. It's going to be a tough one, but I know we can handle it!! Just a friendly reminder about stick and puck on Friday- before our big WIN!!!!
Also- it's our first away game on Saturday--- let's go get a huge on the road W!!!
(plus, my family is going and my sister has extremely cute children, and I'd like them to be proud of their aunt mimi... so we have to win, guys. )
Also, I wanted to mention how much we have all been improving!! We look like different people out there on the ice! So, let's continue on with the hard work to get better each week!
I also was thinking... wouldn't it be fun to post some funny stories that have happened both on and off the ice so far this year? Maybe we could keep a running tally... not sure exactly how it could work... but kind of like those awful embarrassing pictures Ari posted... whoever can think of something worth mentioning and posts it firsts get the first drink after our game Saturday! : ) what an incentive...
see you all Thursday for the barn dance!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Party pics unfit for facebook
Sunday, October 23, 2011
This Coming Week!
I hope you all had an awesome time last night. I know I did. I am so happy to be on this awesome team with such great girls! As for what's coming up this week: Let's get started off on the right foot! As a team, we need to get better all around- so let's take this next week to really focus: work hard and skate hard. Let's do this as a team, though. We need to keep each other motivated and excited to be apart of our team. See you all tomorrow on the ice!
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Hot Hockey....Oh Yeahhhh
Hello my lovely teammates,
I’ll start by saying how incredibly happy I am playing hockey and that is 100% because of our wonderful team.Anyway down to the purpose of my post…
About 30 seconds into playing each of our games I realize just how out of shape I am. It’s about time I change that. Because working out is always more fun with buddies I thought it’d be nice if we knew when our team mates were free to run or go to the gym. If anyone is in favor of doing this I figure we could make a Google doc with our free times to work out then see who has overlapping time periods to meet up. But because I’m computer illiterate, I don’t know how to make such a document.
Also, I thought I’d throw in my favorite quote in just for funnies…
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”
-Maya Angelou
One of the things I love most about our team is our awesome positive attitude but one bad egg can spoil the cake. (Is that a real quote or did I just make that up? I know there’s one about bad eggs but I don’t think that’s it…either way cake tastes awful when the eggs are bad so it’s applicable...just go with it haha). I like to keep this quote in mind when we do our 60 second drills because even though I think my legs might fall off and I want to complain and whine my pants off these drills are clearly making us better skaters so the pain is worth it in the end. A positive attitude makes a huge difference. Keep up the good work!
Love,
Katrina
Blogging is For Everyone!!!!
You have all been invited to be an author to help tell our team story. So post!!!!!
We need pictures and team ideas!!! Think of a name for our team! We can vote at practice. No stupid ideas...
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth~
Friday, October 14, 2011
Let's get Ready to RUMBLE!!!!!
We've played really well in our first two games! And we've seen an awful lot of improvement from our first to our second. Let's keep up the hard work and get to scoring some goals!!!!
Feel free to post all over this blog! Let's keep it up to date and full of posts, videos, quotes, and links!!!
Ps. If anyone can upload photos that would be great. I cannot link the photos on facebook onto here for some reason. Please give it a go if you have pictures!