Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

Lethbridge Ringette Association is skating into a new season seeing a growth in player numbers through registration and the continuation of recently established leagues for older levels .

“We grew about 10 per cent this year and a lot of those numbers were in our Active Start program which is where we really wanna grow,” said Gordon Cox, LRA president.

“ We wanna have that base to the pyramid with the really young numbers. Then that translates to bigger and more teams as they get older because as we know with a lot of youth sports, especially women’s sports, there’s a large attrition rate as they get older. So having that big base helps with that.”

LRA wants ringette to be an accessible sport.

“We keep our registration fees fairly low,” sai

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