How Much Should Female Hockey Players Weigh?
Body image is an important issue for many young girls and it is no different for girls’ hockey players. However, this issue is often swept under the rug by coaches and parents. The issue of body image is often swept under the rug by coaches and parents and the reluctance to talk about this issue openly is causing more harm than good in the world of women’s hockey. Unlike boys’ hockey players who all want to grow up to be 6’2″ and 220lbs, girls’ hockey players don’t want to or need to muscle-bound, heavy or big to compete at the highest level of our sport. In fact, sometimes being a bigger player in the female game works against you. I remember getting more than a few penalties back in high school and college when much smaller players ran into me and fell over, and I ended up in the box. Back when I played in college and in the elite women’s hockey leagues here in Canada, I weighed 165lbs and am just slightly less than that now. I have absolutely no problem telling people how much I wei
