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Erin Cumpstone (born November 4, 1980) is a Canadian softball catcher, former ringette player who also played for the Canadian national ringette team, and currently a National Ringette League coach for the Saskatchewan Heat. She began playing softball at age seven and studied at Simon Fraser University.
Cumpstone was a part of the Canadian softball team who finished 9th at the 2002 World Softball Championships in Saskatoon and part of the Canadian softball team who finished 5th at the 2004 Summer Olympics. [1]
Cumpstone was also a ringette player and a member of Team Canada 2010 during the 2010 World Ringette Championships where the team finished in second place to Finland. Cumpstone also competed in ringette at the 1999 Canada Winter Games and eventually played for one of the first teams in the National Ringette League (NRL), the Saskatoon Wild. As of 2023, she is head coach of the Saskatchewan Heat, a ringette team in NRL.
Angela Lichty is a Canadian softball shortstop. She started softball at age seven, and is a graduate of Simon Fraser University. She was a part of the Canada women's national softball team who finished ninth at the 2002 World Championships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and part of the Canadian team who finished fifth at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Ringette is a girls' non-contact winter team sport played on an ice rink using ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips, and a blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for use on ice surfaces. The sport is among a small number of organized team sports created exclusively for female competitors. Ringette is played on ice hockey rinks with markings which are specific to ringette, and its strategic play bears a closer resemblance to basketball than it does to ice hockey.
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Judy Diduck is a retired Canadian ringette and ice hockey player. Diduck was born in Edmonton, Alberta, but grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta. She competed in the first World Ringette Championships in 1990 for Team Alberta who became the first world champions in the sport. In 2005, she was inducted into the Ringette Canada Hall of Fame. Diduck is also a former member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team.
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Robert John McLeod was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach. He played professionally for the New York Rangers for parts of six seasons from 1949 to 1954, and played eight seasons of senior hockey between 1953 and 1965, where he competed at multiple Ice Hockey World Championships, winning the gold medal in 1961. He served as head coach of the Canada men's national ice hockey team from 1966 to 1969, leading them to two bronze medals at the World Championships and a bronze medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. He later coached the Saskatoon Blades in the Western Canada Hockey League from 1971 to 1979, and coached the Canada men's national junior team to a silver medal at the 1975 World Junior Championships. He was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, and inducted as a player into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Ringette in Canada began in 1963 when it was first conceptualized by Sam Jacks of North Bay, Ontario, in West Ferris. The sport of ringette is played in all 10 Canadian provinces and the Northwest Territories and involves an average of over 31,000 registered players every year. Canada is the location of ringette's origin where it is also recognized as a national heritage sport. The sport is governed nationally by Ringette Canada. Canadian provinces and territories have their own individual governing bodies in their respective jurisdictions.
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