Eight (8) teams have arrived in Huntsville, Ontario to compete for the gold medal at the 2015 National Women’s Under-18 Championship, which gets underway Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at the Canada Summit Centre.

 

Defending gold-medalist Ontario Red will play in Group A with Manitoba, Quebec and Saskatchewan, while the silver-medalists Ontario Blue are in Group B along with Alberta, Atlantic, and British Columbia.

 

All preliminary round games, placement games, semifinals, and the bronze-medal game can be seen live via FASTHockey webcast at www.hockeycanada.ca/nwu18c, while TSN will broadcast the gold-medal game Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 4:30PM ET (1:30PM PT) on TSN 4.

 

Team BC’s preliminary round schedule is as follows:

 

You can follow along using BC Hockey's app (for Apple or Android) or Twitter at @BCHockey_Female.

 

Team BC’s roster was announced October 1, 2015 and features 20 athletes from across the province. The team includes nine (9) players who competed with Team BC at the 2015 Canada Winter Games (Skinner, Martin, Sim, Beres, Rempe, MacMillan, Potomak, Knowles, and Dove) and one (1) underage (2000 born) player (Vorster). BC’s best finish at the event was in 2005, when the team won bronze. In the 2013 edition of the Championship, BC finished in 7^th place.

 

 

For more information on the 2015 National Women’s Under-18 Championship, please visit www.hockeycanada.ca/nwu18c and follow along via social media at www.facebook.com/womensu18 and www.twitter.com/hc_nwu18.

 

BC Hockey’s Female High Performance Program was established to identify and train athletes and team personnel for possible participation at Provincial, National and International events. For more information about BC Hockey, please visit the BC Hockey website at www.bchockey.net or email info@bchockey.net.