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A Brief History of the Saugeen Maitland Womens Hockey Association
A Group of individuals got together in the summer of 1997 and decided to form an organization within the boundaries of
the Western Ontario Athletic Association (W.O.A.A.), which covers most of mid-western Ontario. They had seen girls hockey
teams come and go over the years. They found that because of the small size of the populations of most of the communities,there
wasn't any single centre that could consistently host higher level girls hockey teams.
Their solution to the problem was to form an agreement with W.O.A.A. Girls Hockey that would allow players that wished
to play at a higher level join the Saugeen Maitland Girls teams from their centres within the W.O.A.A.
The name Saugeen Maitland was chosen because the majority of the towns and villages of the W.O.A.A. are in the watersheds
of those two rivers. The group felt that would be an appropriate name to represent the area.
A majority of our home games and practices are based at the Howick arena. A number of our weekly practices are in Belmore,
Teeswater or Lucknow. We use Ayton, Paisley and Wiarton arenas at times as well. Saugeen Maitland teams generally practice
one to two times per week and will play somewhere between 55 and 80 games in a season which includes play-offs and
tournaments.
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