24th Jan Dundalk Democrat Articles
Interesting year ahead for the Dundalk Lady Bulls
By Martin Grant
IF we were to go back four months, the local Dundalk Lady Bulls Ice Hockey team were critically low on numbers. Players were transferring to various clubs and it looked like there would be no Bulls Ladies team participating in the Irish Ice Hockey Division Two League.
However, fast forward to the present day and we see more ladies registering with the team, trips to foreign countries being organised and the second half of the season starting.
Speaking to The Dundalk Democrat this week about the Ladies team, head coach Vytautas Lukosevicius said: "We are very going very good at the moment. At the start of the season we thought we didn't have a team and now we have 15 girls and counting".
Vytautas praised the club's 'Zero to Ice Hockey Hero' programme, that is being exclusively covered by The Dundalk Democrat, by saying: "With the Dundalk Bulls Zero to Hero programme we have another two girls coming on board and we are teaching them how to skate and play and they think that the want to stay and play hockey with us because they are enjoying it".
Vytautas, who has coached the Ladies for the past three seasons, also spoke about the season to date: "We're not doing too bad in the Irish League, even though we have lost the games against all of the mens teams that we play, but we didn't lose any game by more than ten goals and we scored at east one goal in every game so that is good for me as a coach to know".
2010 could be an exciting year for the Bull Ladies as Vytautas is organising team trips to foreign destinations.
"I am organising a trip to Prague, Czech Republic, in September for the Lady Bulls where the hockey is at a very high level and where we will play a few games against Ladies Teams", he said.
With the leagues being reshuffled for the second half of the season, the three ladies teams the Dundalk Lady Bulls, the Belfast Ice Vixens and the Cubs - are all in the same division, something that Vytautas is excited about. However he admits that it won't be easy for his team.
"It will be tough and at the end of the day, a game is a game. If you play against the boys or play against the girls you have to be ready. You cannot just sit there and say that we are going to beat them. We have to go and play your hardest and to the best of your ability".
He also added that the possibility of an all ladies league could be on the cards for next season.
"It could be that next year we have a ladies league. We already have three ladies teams and they can play against one another, but we will have to see what the future holds".
Read in full in this weeks Dundalk Democrat
THE DUNDALK DEMOCRAT-NUMBER 1 FOR ICE HOCKEY NEWS WITH MARTIN GRANT
By Martin Grant
IF we were to go back four months, the local Dundalk Lady Bulls Ice Hockey team were critically low on numbers. Players were transferring to various clubs and it looked like there would be no Bulls Ladies team participating in the Irish Ice Hockey Division Two League.
However, fast forward to the present day and we see more ladies registering with the team, trips to foreign countries being organised and the second half of the season starting.
Speaking to The Dundalk Democrat this week about the Ladies team, head coach Vytautas Lukosevicius said: "We are very going very good at the moment. At the start of the season we thought we didn't have a team and now we have 15 girls and counting".
Vytautas praised the club's 'Zero to Ice Hockey Hero' programme, that is being exclusively covered by The Dundalk Democrat, by saying: "With the Dundalk Bulls Zero to Hero programme we have another two girls coming on board and we are teaching them how to skate and play and they think that the want to stay and play hockey with us because they are enjoying it".
Vytautas, who has coached the Ladies for the past three seasons, also spoke about the season to date: "We're not doing too bad in the Irish League, even though we have lost the games against all of the mens teams that we play, but we didn't lose any game by more than ten goals and we scored at east one goal in every game so that is good for me as a coach to know".
2010 could be an exciting year for the Bull Ladies as Vytautas is organising team trips to foreign destinations.
"I am organising a trip to Prague, Czech Republic, in September for the Lady Bulls where the hockey is at a very high level and where we will play a few games against Ladies Teams", he said.
With the leagues being reshuffled for the second half of the season, the three ladies teams the Dundalk Lady Bulls, the Belfast Ice Vixens and the Cubs - are all in the same division, something that Vytautas is excited about. However he admits that it won't be easy for his team.
"It will be tough and at the end of the day, a game is a game. If you play against the boys or play against the girls you have to be ready. You cannot just sit there and say that we are going to beat them. We have to go and play your hardest and to the best of your ability".
He also added that the possibility of an all ladies league could be on the cards for next season.
"It could be that next year we have a ladies league. We already have three ladies teams and they can play against one another, but we will have to see what the future holds".
Read in full in this weeks Dundalk Democrat
THE DUNDALK DEMOCRAT-NUMBER 1 FOR ICE HOCKEY NEWS WITH MARTIN GRANT
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