| North and South Carolina's Women's C Ice Hockey team |
Team CAHA is a North and South Carolina wide Women's district-bound C Team.
Since this team is being organized by CAHA, the main objective is to promote and
develop women’s hockey in our region. As well as to create a strong network
between the local organizations which helps create more opportunities for female
hockey players by working together to support and establish women's teams and
events (tournaments, clinics etc).
Team CAHA will not be entering any local tournaments in the affiliation. The
reasoning behind that is if we have players from each location (Charlotte,
Columbia, Charleston, Wilmington, Greensboro and Raleigh) this team will only
weaken teams that are fighting for players already.
The goal of this team is to provide a opportunity for players that want to
experience competitive hockey at the C level and the district tournament(hopefully
the National tournament as well). A requirement to be eligible for the district
tournament is that the team must play 14 games and each player must participate
in 10 games.
Team Manager
Miranda Thomas
C - (919) 604-3789
E - miradawn4@gmail.com
CAHA Girls' / Women's Committe Chair
Kevin Thomas
C - (919) 368-6613
E - kjthoma2@gmail.com
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| Team Email - teamCAHA@gmail.com Team Website - www.a2-enterprises.com/teamcaha |
tournament. However in 2009, no organizations were planning on fielding a team
and we were approached by several women asking us to attempt to pull all the
interested players together and form one statewide team since the numbers were
not strong enough to support local district-bound C teams.
In late October 2009, we hosted open tryouts and selected 17 players to represent
the Carolinas as Team CAHA at the 2010 Southeastern District Tournament. After
each season we will assess the need for a statewide team and hope that eventually
we will see several local organizations fielding teams to compete at the district
level and represent our affiliation.
Team CAHA Wins Southeastern District Tournament
In dramatic fashion Team CAHA won the 2012 Southeastern District tournament and punched their ticket to this year's National tournament in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Jessica Harrington scored with a little over six minutes remaining in the second overtime; sending the players onto the ice in celebration. Team CAHA went 3-0 in pool play and entered the championship game as the top seed for a second straight year, however this year Team CAHA claimed the gold medal and in doing so became the first North Carolina based team to win the Women's C division. Jessica was the tournaments top scorer with 7 points (5g, 3a) in 4 games followed by Kristy Knight (3g,3a).
August Wrap Up
The ladies passed the early season tests and went 4-0 on their way to winning the Hockey Fights MS Tournament in Bethlehem, PA. The team had balance scoring and received solid goaltending both were instrumental in winning the tournament which featured several quality teams. Once back in North Carolina, the team set their focus on the training camp which was held in Wilmington and was meant to bring the team together and help them prepare for the upcoming season. The training camp featured 3 spirited practices before the team wrapped up the weekend with a scrimmage. Next up is the Hillsborough Weekend Series (September 17th & 18th). The ladies will square off against three different men’s teams and will be looking to continue their current winning streak.
2011-2012 Tryouts Announced
We will be hosting tryouts for the 2011-2012 team, June 4th at the Rec Zone in Raleigh, NC. Cost to try out will be $45 which will include two tryout sessions (11:30-1:15pm and 8:15-9:30pm). To register for tryouts please complete the online registration form. For additional information about the tryout process or Team CAHA please contact Kevin Thomas at kjthoma2@gmail.com.
Team CAHA claims Silver Medal at Southeastern Districts
The ladies traveled to Alpharetta, GA for the 2011 Southeastern district tournament and were one win away from punching their ticket to the National tournament. After going 3-0 in round robin play, the ladies had a rematch against defending champions Chesapeake Bay Lightning. In the final, the Lightning skated to a 2-1 victory over Team CAHA in a hard fought battle. The ladies finished with a final record of 21-8-3 and the 2010-2011 squad set records in every statistical category in the team’s brief two year existence. They will look to build off this success as they take the ice next fall in hopes of securing a bid to the 2012 National Tournament in Massachusetts.
Team CAHA wrap up Regular Season
The girls put an exclamation mark on the regular season finishing with back-to-back shut outs in Charlotte while tallying 10 goals in the two games. TC remained red hot and pushed their winning streak to 6 and the squad is an impressive 11-2-1 in their last 14 games. Make sure to follow the team as they travel to Alpharetta, GA this weekend to square off against the best women’s teams in the Southeast as they try to earn a bid to Nationals. All game results will be posted on the team’s facebook page and don’t forget to purchase your raffle tickets for the 2011 NHL All-Star jersey.
One final weekend series remaining in the regular season
Team CAHA will be traveling to Charlotte for the final weekend series on February 26th and 27th. The women will be taking their four game win streak and 16-7-3 record with them as they match up against two Charlotte men's team in what will be the final tune-up before districts.