Australia women's national under-18 ice hockey team

Association Ice Hockey Australia
General Manager Ainslie Gardner
Head coach Tamra Jones
Assistants Jo Frankenberger
Captain Christiarn Hall
Team colors               
First international
 New Zealand 2 – 2 Australia 
(Dunedin, New Zealand; 6 December 2013)
Biggest win
 Australia 8 – 1 New Zealand 
(Melbourne, Australia; 17 December 2014)
Biggest defeat
 Poland 11 – 0 Australia 
(Radenthein, Austria; 7 January 2016)
IIHF World Women's U18 Championships
Appearances 1 (first in 2016)
Best result 21st (2016)
International record (W–L–T)
4–10–1

The Australia women's national under-18 ice hockey team is the women's national under-18 ice hockey team of Australia. The team is controlled by Ice Hockey Australia, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation.

History

The Australia women's national under-18 ice hockey team was formed in 2012 in order to qualify and compete in the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships.[1] The team held its first training camp in September 2012 in Adelaide, South Australia and in January 2013 held another training camp in Brisbane, Queensland. Tamra Jones was named as the team's first head coach with Jo Frankenberger as her assistant. Following the two camps, 14 players and one goalie were included on the team roster.[1] The team played their first game on 6 December 2013 against the New Zealand women's national under-18 ice hockey team in Dunedin, New Zealand, tying 2-2.[2] It was part of a four-game series being held in Dunedin between the two teams.[2] Australia went on to lose the remaining three games of the series.[2] In December 2014 Australia hosted the New Zealand women's national under-18 ice hockey team for a five-game series at the Medibank Icehouse in Melbourne.[3] The team won the series three games to two and were awarded the 2014 Trans-Tasman Cup.[3] They also recorded their largest international win in game four, defeating New Zealand 8-1.[3] In August 2015 Australia competed in two games against the Denmark women's national under-18 ice hockey team as part of their 2015 Denmark Tour which also included a training camp that had begun on 25 July.[4] Australia lost the opening game 2-12 with Natalie Ayris and Madison Poole scoring the teams two goals.[4] In the second game of the tour Australia lost 1-9 with Emily Davis-Tope scoring the only goal on the third period buzzer.[5]

In January 2016 the team debuted at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships where they played in the 2016 Division I Qualification tournament in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria.[6] Australia was placed in Group B with Great Britain, Italy and Poland.[7] The team finished last in Group B's preliminary round after losing all three of their games and advanced to the seventh place classification game against Romania, who had finished last in Group A.[7] Australia defeated Romania following a shootout and finished the tournament in seventh place.[8][9] Kate Tihema was selected as best Australian player of the tournament.[10]

International competitions

Team roster

For the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Division I Qualification[11]

# Name Pos S/G Age Club
10 Celestine Adams F R 15 Northern Ice Hockey Association
25 Keesha Atkins G L 17 Brisbane Goannas
18 Natalie Ayris (A) D R 17 Adelaide Adrenaline
6 Lara Azzopardi D L 15 Sydney Sirens
24 Abi Brown F R 15 Brisbane Goannas
2 Isobel Cantrill F R 16 Melbourne Ice
7 Taylor Cookson F L 18 Northern Ice Hockey Association
19 Emily Davis-Tope D L 15 Melbourne Ice
4 Sophie Gillen F R 17 Northern Ice Hockey Association
23 Christiarn Hall (C) F R 18 AIK IF
5 Charlotte Kelly F R 18 Brisbane Goannas
11 Eiland Kenyon D R 18 Ice Hockey ACT
22 Isla Malcolm F R 16 Northern Ice Hockey Association
16 Cleo Mayer F R 15 Liverpool Saints
8 Courtney Poole D R 17 Northern Ice Hockey Association
17 Ebony Ramachandram D R 16 Melbourne Ice
9 Sara Sammons F R 15 Hawks Ice Hockey Club
15 Emily Sweeney F R 16 Hawks Ice Hockey Club
21 Kate Tihema (A) F R 18 Adelaide Adrenaline
1 Tianna Wiesler-Elaya G R 17 Sydney Sirens

References

  1. 1 2 "National U18 Women's Program Media Release" (PDF). Ice Hockey Australia. 2013-02-21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-03-02. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
  2. 1 2 3 "2013 New Zealand Women's Under 18 Development Team". New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation. 2013-12-12. Archived from the original on 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
  3. 1 2 3 "Australia U18 Women win the International Series". Ice Hockey News Australia. 2014-12-18. Archived from the original on 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  4. 1 2 "Australian U18 Women lose opener of 2015 Denmark Tour". Ice Hockey News Australia. 2015-08-02. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  5. ↑ "Denmark defeats Australian U18 Women in second game of Denmark Tour". Ice Hockey News Australia. 2015-08-03. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  6. ↑ "2016 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Division I Qualification". International Ice Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  7. 1 2 "Tournament Progress - Preliminary Round" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2016-01-10. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  8. ↑ "Tournament Progress - Play-offs" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2016-01-11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  9. ↑ "Final Ranking" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2016-01-11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  10. ↑ "Best Players of Each Team Selected by Coaches" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  11. ↑ "Team Roster" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-01-10.

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