Are girls moving from figure skating to hockey?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean...are the figure skaters prepared to gain like at least 50 pounds and start getting smashed into the boards...and possibly fighting?

Just seems a little strange. Like saying that a downhill skier is now going to become a freestyle skier...both sports take place on skis, but require a different physique and mental approach.

Tell me that you don’t know what you’re talking about while telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about

So, are there lots of girls moving from figure skating to hockey...because the consensus from this thread is no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to be -big to be a good women's hockey player. Kendall Coyne Shofield is 5'2" and has two gold medals. Cayla Barnes is also either 5'1" or 5'2". Amanda Boulier is only 5'1". There is a place in hockey for small, fast players. I believe Cayla Barnes started out as a figure skater.

+1

My DD hockey player is 5'6 and 117 lbs. Very fast and agile player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to be -big to be a good women's hockey player. Kendall Coyne Shofield is 5'2" and has two gold medals. Cayla Barnes is also either 5'1" or 5'2". Amanda Boulier is only 5'1". There is a place in hockey for small, fast players. I believe Cayla Barnes started out as a figure skater.

+1

My DD hockey player is 5'6 and 117 lbs. Very fast and agile player.

The women referenced above are I think like 125 to 140. They may be small, but they are built like Mack Trucks.

[Anonymous]

I stopped competitive figures skating at 16 and picked it back up at 25. At 40, I switched to dance. I've tried hockey skates but it just never felt right.

There's room in figure skating for adults if you want it.

To the PP who refused to acknowledge the renamed MIF--I hear your. They just need to bring back figures. Boring as heck to do; even more boring to watch. But there is something about the precision, and repetition that becomes soothing. I loved my patch sessions. And yes, I know about World Figure & Fancy Championships & Festival. Karen Cortland was one of my coaches.

[Anonymous]

Guys I said very few girls over (not under) 5’8” play d1. Everyone knows the 5’6” 120lb girl is in the sweet spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stopped competitive figures skating at 16 and picked it back up at 25. At 40, I switched to dance. I've tried hockey skates but it just never felt right.

There's room in figure skating for adults if you want it.

To the PP who refused to acknowledge the renamed MIF--I hear your. They just need to bring back figures. Boring as heck to do; even more boring to watch. But there is something about the precision, and repetition that becomes soothing. I loved my patch sessions. And yes, I know about World Figure & Fancy Championships & Festival. Karen Cortland was one of my coaches.

If you go to Sun Valley in the summer, which I highly recommend, especially if you can time it around a skating show that you want to watch, they still do patch sessions on the outdoor rink every morning. It’s all old timers, and they still use scribes, and some of them are still doing beautiful figures, and you are welcome to join them when you are there on vacation. if you haven’t already been, skating outdoors in Sun Valley in the summer is a mecca for figure skaters, especially adults, picking it back up after a long break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys I said very few girls over (not under) 5’8” play d1. Everyone knows the 5’6” 120lb girl is in the sweet spot.

I think the point is that at D1 this is not the case. It’s actually pretty balanced. As mentioned previously half the girls on the two teams that went to D1 finals are 5’ 8” or taller. Height is not a defining factor in women’s hockey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to be -big to be a good women's hockey player. Kendall Coyne Shofield is 5'2" and has two gold medals. Cayla Barnes is also either 5'1" or 5'2". Amanda Boulier is only 5'1". There is a place in hockey for small, fast players. I believe Cayla Barnes started out as a figure skater.

+1

My DD hockey player is 5'6 and 117 lbs. Very fast and agile player.

The women referenced above are I think like 125 to 140. They may be small, but they are built like Mack Trucks.

No, they do not have to be "built like mack trucks." A woman I know who played D1 in college was listed at 5'4" and 108 in college--very slim, and she definitely looked it. She might have been a little heavier when she played professionally (like 120 maybe?) but nowhere near a "mack truck." There's room for slim, fast players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean...are the figure skaters prepared to gain like at least 50 pounds and start getting smashed into the boards...and possibly fighting?

Just seems a little strange. Like saying that a downhill skier is now going to become a freestyle skier...both sports take place on skis, but require a different physique and mental approach.

Tell me that you don’t know what you’re talking about while telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to be -big to be a good women's hockey player. Kendall Coyne Shofield is 5'2" and has two gold medals. Cayla Barnes is also either 5'1" or 5'2". Amanda Boulier is only 5'1". There is a place in hockey for small, fast players. I believe Cayla Barnes started out as a figure skater.

+1

My DD hockey player is 5'6 and 117 lbs. Very fast and agile player.

The women referenced above are I think like 125 to 140. They may be small, but they are built like Mack Trucks.

No, they do not have to be "built like mack trucks." A woman I know who played D1 in college was listed at 5'4" and 108 in college--very slim, and she definitely looked it. She might have been a little heavier when she played professionally (like 120 maybe?) but nowhere near a "mack truck." There's room for slim, fast players.

Great…but the women specifically mentioned by PP are built like Mack Trucks. You can look up their stats.

[Anonymous]

Women's ice hockey is actually a much better way to get into an ivy league school than figure skating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women's ice hockey is actually a much better way to get into an ivy league school than figure skating.

Well….of course. Figure skating isn’t an NCAA sport…of course the Ivy needs to have a team. Not all do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Women's ice hockey is actually a much better way to get into an ivy league school than figure skating.

Well….of course. Figure skating isn’t an NCAA sport…of course the Ivy needs to have a team. Not all do.

Figure Skating is at most a club sport nobody cares about, while the Ivies tend to be very competitive in D1 women's hockey. Most of the NBC women's hockey commentators are Harvard grads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Women's ice hockey is actually a much better way to get into an ivy league school than figure skating.

Well….of course. Figure skating isn’t an NCAA sport…of course the Ivy needs to have a team. Not all do.

Because it’s a dying sport

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women's ice hockey is actually a much better way to get into an ivy league school than figure skating.

You’re nuts. I don’t know anything about figure skating but getting any girl to d1 level of hockey, let alone ivy, means sending them to boarding school, or commuting to Philly or Pittsburgh for hockey, starting when there 14. The only local girl within recent memory that did it without leaving played coed (boys) aa through 16u…