4 for 4!... MB AGM

I have finally arrived to the fourth and final stop of this leg of the Travelling Road Show. Manitoba Ringette’s AGM took place Saturday May 10th.

I arrived at the Sport Manitoba Building about an hour before the start of my presentation… I was then treated to the wrap up of the voting of the Motions. Very interesting discussion and I got to see first hand the passion that lies within the leaders in our sport.

I feel this is a great introduction to the following point…

Adult programs superimposed on children; one of the challenges we face in amateur sport in Canada today.

Understanding that we need adults to lead the logistics of Ringette associations… not to mention the athletes need to get to the rink somehow (visual of Novice players driving themselves to the rink…lol) however we sometimes forget the reasons why kids play.

We run leagues, associations, tournaments the way we (as adults) would for ourselves.

In our sport we spend hours talking about monitoring the number of goals per game per player at the Novice level, moving players from one team to another because teams are not equal, athlete carding when the bottom line is… KIDS JUST WANT TO PLAY.

Maybe we should let them play, love and live the sport.

End of discussion.


PLAY IT. LOVE IT. LIVE IT.
-FL