Celebrate the 2010 Olympics
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The Ontario Trillium Foundation
The LGHA would like to extend a special and appreciative "Thank-you" to the Ontario Trillium Foundation for their generous donation. As a celebration of our 10th Anniversary 1998/99 to 2007/08 the hockey organization recieved funding to assist with the development of a new logo and the purchase of new home and away team jerseys.
History of the Lindsay Lynx Organization
The idea of Lindsay having its own Girls Hockey Association was a dream and a goal to be accomplished in the eyes of Lindsay's Tammy Patrick, a mother of three daughters. The one and only founder who worked to get volunteers to help build an executive, also to get volunteers to commit to the five original teams that she had enough players to go with, but needed good coaches, trainers and managers.
Tammy Patrick's dream had come true and together we all worked hard to get the numbers of girls in 1998 to form one Novice team of twelve players, one Atom team with twelve players, two Peewee teams, one with twelve and the other with eleven players and finally at that time we were also successful to form one older Bantam team. One more miracle happened that first year of 1998/99 to reward Tammy for all that she had done to form this new dream. In April of 1999 our Novice team which was the first youngest group of girls who worked so hard with the coaching staff comprised of our amazing honorary founder – Tammy Patrick, and Russell Smith. It was a season to remember and to also mark Tammy and her team of helpers as a dream come true.
Our young Novice team with a lot of girls who had never played before ended the league season, qualifying to compete in the Ontario Provincial Play downs against all of the other Novice teams in our region and blew away all competition to sweep the Ontario Provincial Play downs and head to the Ontario Provincial Championships in April of 1999. We knew that the girls had improved quite a bit after our weekend tournament in Kingston, which gave all of the girls a chance to get to know each other much better and make closer friendships with each other. People very seldom see adults like the three of us that had been coaching these girls since conception of Lindsay Girls Hockey Association, as emotional as we got closer and closer to that final showdown with Orangeville! The tears of joy, the shivers, the speechlessness, for all twelve of these hockey players, and when the 3rd period buzzer was coming up and it was 4 – 1 for our Lindsay team, we were so shocked and proud that they went on to win the gold medal for the Novice Division in all of Ontario.
After the presentations of gold medals, a plaque and the big banner that now hangs in Pad# 2 at the Lindsay Recreation Complex, Orangeville showed some real class by forming two straight lines at the exit from the ice area, and all of them raised their sticks to form a large archway for our little gold champions and I have always respected Orangeville for that since then and have suggested that any of our losing teams in the gold medal round – do the very same thing. It is certainly a great representation of how different girls or women's hockey really is.
Just after this fairy tale of the year for Tammy Patrick, Russell Smith, and myself. Then to most of our Lindsay Girls Hockey Association executive's demise, Tammy had to relocate to Cobourg in 2000 and was never officially thanked by the Lindsay Girls Hockey Association but we are always striving to carry on her wishes of building Lindsay's own girls many more hockey opportunities, as well as starting the house league in September 2000/01. Thanks Tammy, we will never forget what you did for all girls in what is now The City of the Kawartha Lakes with a population 72,000 and still Lindsay.