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United States National Ringette Team
, - !align=center style=background:DarkBlue colspan=3, , - , - , - !align=center style=background:DarkBlue colspan=3, , - , - , - !align=center style=background:DarkBlue colspan=3, , - The United States national ringette team (more commonly known as "Team USA"), is the ringette team representing the United States internationally. America has only one national ringette team, Team USA Senior. It does not have an official national ringette team for the junior division. Team USA Senior is overseen by USA Ringette, a member of the International Ringette Federation, and competes at the World Ringette Championships. The first appearance in international ringette by the United States took place at the first World Ringette Championships in 1990. Team Sweden is Team USA's arch-rival with both teams competing in the President's Pool against Team Czech. Team USA and related activity occurs predominantly within the American state of Michigan. The major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 World Ringette Championships
The 1990 World Ringette Championship (''1990 WRC'') was an international ringette tournament and the first World Ringette Championship in history. Three countries took part: Canada, Finland, and the United States. The tournament was organized by the World Ringette Council, the precursor to the International Ringette Federation (IRF). The event was held in the Canadian city of Gloucester, Ontario from January 29 to February 3, 1990, with eight competing teams. Overview Three countries participated: Canada, Finland and United States. A total of 8 teams entered the competition. The teams from Canada included Team Alberta, Team Saskatchewan, Team Manitoba, Team Ontario, Team Quebec, and Team Gloucester (the team from the 1990 WRC's host city). Finland finished seventh and the United States eighth while Canadian teams monopolized the podium. Team Alberta, which consisted of ringette players from the province's "Calgary Debs", won the first world ringette title in internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Seniors
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Team USA Senior
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal". A group does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Naresh Jain (2009) claims: Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realize their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations. While academic research on teams and teamwork has grown consistently and has shown a sharp increase over the past recent 40 years, the societal diffusion of teams and teamwork actually foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringette
Ringette is a contact sport, non-contact winter team sport played on ice hockey rinks using Ice skates#Ice hockey skates, ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips, and a #Equipment, 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. Though ice hockey rinks are used, #Ringette rink, ringette rinks use markings specific to ringette and the sport uses strategic play which more closely resembles basketball than ice hockey. The sport was created in Canada for girls in 1963 by Sam Jacks from West Ferris, Ontario and Red McCarthy from Espanola, Ontario. In 2018, over 50,000 players registered to play the sport. Ringette is played predominantly in Ringette in Canada, Canada and Ringette Finland, Finland with both countries forming the sport's top international teams on a regular basis. Several other countries currently organize and compete in the sport including Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 World Junior Ringette Championships
The 2009 World Junior Ringette Championships, (''2009 WJRC'') also known as the ''U19 2009 World Championships'', was an international ringette tournament and the first World Junior Ringette Championships organized by the International Ringette Federation (IRF) exclusively for elite junior national ringette teams. It was contested in Prague, Czech Republic, between August 4–8, 2009, at the Letňany Arena. History The World Junior Ringette Championships, known as the ''U19 World Championships'', was a tournament organized by the International Ringette Federation (IRF) from 2009 to 2012 for elite international Junior ringette athletes. The competition was run as a separate tournament from the World Ringette Championships which was designed for adult players. The World Junior Ringette Championships no longer function as a separate event, having since merged in 2013 with the main World Ringette Championships program where both Senior and Junior divisions now exist. Overview Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 World Ringette Championships
The World Ringette Championships (WRC) is the premier international competition in ringette and is governed by the International Ringette Federation (IRF). Unlike most international competitions, all of the WRC's elite athletes are female rather than male, one of the sport's distinctive features. Competing nations include: Canada, Finland, United States, Sweden, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, with Team Canada and Team Finland having emerged as the sport's top two competing nations. The 2023 WRC will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Competition consists of teams competing in one of three pools: the Senior Pool (Sam Jacks Series), the Junior Pool, and the President's Pool. The "Sam Jacks Series" is the name of the Senior Pool which is the tournament's elite competition between Team Canada Senior and Team Finland Senior with the Sam Jacks Trophy awarded to the team who wins the world senior title. The Junior Pool is the tournament's elite competition between Team C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 World Ringette Championships
The 2019 World Ringette Championships (WRC) was an international ringette tournament contested in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada from November 25 - December 1st, 2019. The main competition took place at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre. This event marked the 13th World Ringette Championships. All WRC events are organized by the International Ringette Federation (IRF). The games were recorded and live streamed by Sports Canada TV and have since been made available for public viewing on the video sharing site, YouTube, by Ringette Canada. Fifteen of the games were live-streamed online and made available for public viewing. Overview Participating national teams in the included: Team Canada Senior, Team Canada Junior (U19), Team Finland Senior, Team Finland Junior (U19), Team Sweden, Team USA, and Team Czech Republic. Team Finland Senior won the gold medal in the Senior Pool, the " Sam Jacks Series", and Team Canada Junior won the gold medal in the Junior Pool. In the Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 World Ringette Championships
The 2017 World Ringette Championships (''2017 WRC'') was an international ringette tournament and the 12th (XII) of the World Ringette Championships. The tournament was organized by the International Ringette Federation (IRF) and was contested in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, from November 27 – December 3, 2017, at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre, Hershey Centre Arena, now renamed the Paramount Fine Foods Centre. Eight of the games World Ringette Championships#Online broadcasts, were live-streamed online and made available for public viewing. Overview Participating national teams in the included: Canada national ringette team#2017 Seniors, Team Canada Senior, Canada national ringette team#2017 Juniors, Team Canada Junior (U19), Finland national ringette team#2017 Seniors, Team Finland Senior, Finland national ringette team#2017 Juniors, Team Finland Junior (U19), Sweden national ringette team#2017 Seniors, Team Sweden Senior, United States national ringette team#2017 Seniors, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 World Ringette Championships
The 2016 World Ringette Championships (''2016 WRC'') was an international ringette tournament and the 11th (XI) World Ringette Championships. The tournament was organized by the International Ringette Federation (IRF) and was contested in Helsinki, Finland between December 27, 2015, and January 3, 2016. The main competition took place at the Helsinki Ice Hall. It was the first time the Team Slovakia and the Team Czech appeared at the international tournament. This was also the first year Sweden formed the Sweden national junior ringette team (U19). In addition to the main competition, a tournament known as the "Ringette Festival" was held for U14 teams. Overview Participating national teams in the included: Team Canada Senior and Team Canada Junior (U19), Team Finland Senior and Team Finland Junior (U19), Team Sweden Senior and Team Sweden Junior (U19), Team USA Senior, Team Czech Republic Senior, and Team Slovakia Senior. Team Canada Juniors won the gold medal in the under 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 World Ringette Championships
The 2013 World Ringette Championships (''2013 WRC'') was an international ringette tournament and the 10th (X) World Ringette Championships. The tournament was organized by the International Ringette Federation (IRF)and was contested in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, between December 31, 2013, and January 4, 2014. The main competition took place at the North Bay Memorial Gardens. WRC 2013 was the first time the World Junior Ringette Championships, known as the U19 World Ringette Championship, was added to the program after it had initially begun as a separate tournament. The previous year the 2012 World Junior Ringette Championships took place for elite junior ringette athletes but was organized as separate event from the World Ringette Championships program. Overview Team Canada Senior and Team Finland Senior competed against each other in a best of three series. Team Sweden, Team USA, Team Canada U19, and Team Finland U19 competed in the President's Pool and for the U19 (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
