“It was funny because we were dressing these little girls in their hockey gear and they’re going ‘grr, we’re tough’ and then ‘you look like a boy’ and I’m trying to tell them ‘you don’t look like a boy, you look like a girl that plays hockey,” Denise Balbirnie, the director of female hockey for the 100 Mile House and District Minor Hockey Association (OMHMHA) about one of the stereotypes young girls face in hockey, recalling a moment during the association’s new school-based program.
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