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Women of Colour Hockey Collective broadens its reach by introducing the game to Jamaican children
The three-day event drew about 150 Jamaican children and left behind 75 sticks, goalie gear, balls and T-shirts, organizers said.
- The Women of Colour Hockey Collective held a three-day series of clinics in Kingston, Jamaica, last weekend, introducing about 150 local girls and boys to hockey inside the Jamaican National Stadium.
- Co-Founder Tinker, who has ancestral ties to the Caribbean nation, chose Jamaica to expand the collective's international reach after the WCHC hosted three athletes from Kenya last year.
- Fifteen collective members traveled to lead the sessions, leaving behind 75 sticks, goalie equipment, and T-shirts while participants progressed from stick handling to shooting by clinic's end.
- Swift Hockey founder Zechariah Thomas, from Oshawa, Ontario, partnered with the WCHC to improve accessibility, citing how lack of sports access affected his own community growing up.
- PWHL Vancouver defender Sophie Jaques, whose father is Jamaican, said the clinic taught youth that "anything they want to do is possible," emphasizing representation in professional sports.
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Women of Colour Hockey Collective broadens its reach by introducing the game to Jamaican children
Women of Colour Hockey Collective broadens its reach by holding a recent weekend clinic in Jamaica. The event was a homecoming of sorts for many WCHC members, including co-founder Saroya Tinker and Canadian national team defender Sophie Jaques, whose families have ties to the Caribbean nation.
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