Edmonton Chimos

Edmonton Chimos
City	Edmonton, Alberta
League	Western Women's Hockey League
Founded	1973 (1973)
Home arena	River Cree Twin Arenas
Colours	Red, White and Blue
General manager	Dee Bateman
Head coach	Jason Schmidt

The Edmonton Chimos are a professional women's ice hockey team in the Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL). The team played its home games at River Cree Twin Arenas in Edmonton, Canada. The Owner is Arlan Maschmayer.

[edit] History

The Chimos were founded in 1973 ^[1] following ads looking for women in the Edmonton area who wanted to play hockey. By the 1980s, they had become the dominant women's team in Alberta, capturing every Alberta provincial championship, except for one, from 1982-1997. Representing Alberta at the Esso Canadian national championships 16 times in their history, the Chimos have captured the National title four times: 1984, 1985, 1992 and 1997.

In 2001, the Chimos were approached to join the National Women's Hockey League, along with their provincial rival, the Calgary Oval X-Treme. They joined the league in 2002 with the Calgary Oval X-Treme and the Vancouver Griffins to form the NWHL's Western Division. The Griffins folded after only one season, leaving just the two Alberta teams. Consistently overmatched by their Calgary rivals, and lacking true competition in the NWHL as the West division did not fly east, the Alberta clubs broke away from the NWHL to help form the five team Western Women's Hockey League in 2004 before the two leagues were once again united under the NWHL banner in 2006. However, this was short lived as the NWHL and WWHL could not reach an agreement upon a playoff schedule. As a result, the merger was not consummated. With the collapse of the NWHL in the summer of 2007, the Western Women's Hockey League was once again a completely independent league. The goal of the new league is to promote women’s hockey in the west ^[2].

[edit] Season-by-season

• See also: 2002–03 NWHL season
• See also: 2003–04 NWHL season
• See also: 2004–05 WWHL season
• See also: 2005–06 WWHL season
• See also: 2006–07 WWHL season
• See also: 2007–08 WWHL season
• See also: 2008–09 WWHL season
• See also: 2009–10 WWHL season
• See also: 2010–11 WWHL season

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points.

[edit] Season standings

[edit] Current Roster

Goalies
Number		Player	Former Team	Hometown
1		Keely Brown	Toronto Lady Blues - CIS	Kitchener, Ontario
31		Kristen Sugiyama	Grant MacEwan Griffins - ACAC	Edmonton, Alberta

Defense
Number		Player	Former Team	Hometown
6		Tegan Rose	St. Albert Slash - AMMFHL	Gibbons, Alberta
9		Erin Duggan	Yale Bulldogs - NCAA	Beaumont, Alberta
12		Meaghan Mikkelson	Canadian National Women's Team	St. Albert, Alberta
14		Brittaney Maschmeyer	Syracuse Orange - NCAA	Bruderheim, Alberta
17		Courtney Sawchuk	St. Lawrence Skating Saints - NCAA	Sherwood Park, Alberta
25		Taylor Williamson		Spruce Grove, Alberta
81		Kelsey MacMillan	Edmonton Chimos	Sherwood Park, Alberta
88		Tara Swanson		Wetaskiwin, Alberta

Forwards
Number		Player	Former Team	Hometown
5		Kelly Godel	Edmonton Titans - NAFHA	Hythe, Alberta
8		Mallory Matheson	NAIT Ooks - ACAC	Binscarth, Manitoba
11		Jennifer Mo	Lloydminster Steelers - AMMFHL	Bonnyville, Alberta
16		Lauren Chiswell	Grant MacEwan Griffins - ACAC	Edmonton, Alberta
18		Chelsea Purcell	Saskatchewan Huskies - CIS	Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan
19		Kathy Yeats	Edmonton Chimos	Coronation, Alberta
21		Lindsay Robinson	Alberta Pandas - CIS	Edmonton, Alberta
24		Laura Dostaler	Edmonton Chimos	Beaumont, Alberta
27		Colleen Olson	Edmonton Chimos	Sherwood Park, Alberta
33		Britney Millar	Edmonton Chimos	Kingston, Ontario
77		Manuela Hebel	Mannheim Kurpfalz	Freising, Germany

^{[3] [4]} and ^[5]

[edit] Coaching Staff

^[6]

• Head Coach: Jason Schmidt
• Assistant Coach: Chip Sawchuk
• Assistant Coach: Matt Appelt
• Trainer: Pat Toner

[edit] Awards and honors

• Colette Prefontaine, Best Goaltender, 1998 Esso National championships^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Edmonton Chimos website
• Edmonton Chimos Facebook page
• Edmonton Chimos on Twitter
• WWHL official site

[edit] See also

• Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL)
• List of ice hockey teams in Alberta

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