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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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AWIHL/Melbourne Ice Women Primer

*this is mostly going to about the Melbourne Ice Women bc they’re my team oops. If you have any questions/want any info on where to find teams or good league info please hmu! I love this league I will talk about it for hours.

If you aren’t watching women’s hockey, do it, it’s literally so good. I’m a recent convert and it was the best hockey decision I’ve ever made. 

Also Australian leagues are really good for learning hockey rules and getting better at looking at the game with a little more depth!

The Australian Women’s Ice Hockey League (AWIHL) is Australia’s top women’s hockey league. Its season runs from October to February and there are five teams. Each team plays 12 regular season games and four teams qualify for finals. The finals consist of two semi final games and then a bronze medal and a gold medal match where they play for the Joan McKowen trophy. They play IIHF rules and play full 60 minute games (unlike the men RIP AIHL)

Imports! Teams are allowed to have a total of three imports and are not allowed to have an import goalie (unlike the men’s league. Imagine being dedicated to goalie development in Australia, couldn’t be the AIHL). Imports are players from overseas (usually Canada) who come and play for Australian teams. There are Canadians in the league who aren’t imports because they have Australian citizenship.

Streaming: All games are streamed on Youtube! They’re also at super varying times on Saturdays and Sundays so some games are European/North American friendly!

All the games are played on weekends because the players have regular jobs! It’s a semi professional league so they aren’t paid and typically have sponsors who cover some of the cost of the season. These women are MULTI FACETED!

The league is really fun because everyone supports each other a lot and its way less disastrous than the men’s league. Also the age range on teams is huge because you can start playing for the league when you’re 14 and there are some 30+ year olds on teams.

Teams:

Adelaide Rush: PERFECT for the suffering Adelaide Adrenaline fan. Currently undefeated in regulation after finishing in last place last season. An amazing comeback narrative that is perfect for the hockey fan who loves an underdog and is being disrespected by their own awful teams. Adelaide friends please get around this team, who knows when you’ll see a winning hockey team again! They also have a really good social media presence (as do their men’s team).

Perth Inferno: The newest team in the league. Haven’t done that well this season but their imports are very good and their results aren’t indicative of their overall performance imo. Another underdog team who is totally worth seeing live if you’re from Perth! Honestly I’m a full believe in their ability to turn it around and be awesome. Unfortunately they suffer from being located in Perth and therefore can’t afford to fly a full lineup to their away games. This makes them even cooler imo because they’re still competitive despite having way less players.

Brisbane Goannas: The most neglected of hockey markets in Australia, the land of nonexistent hockey markets. They don’t have a men’s team anymore so QLD fans should totally get around them! Their jerseys are super sexy and imo this is the best team name in the league. They aren’t great but deserve more attention because they’ve managed to keep a team this long! I have a feeling one of the players runs some of their social media, its very fun (especially their Instagram stories)

Sydney Sirens: This is the big scary team of the season. Also undefeated in regulation, they’re kind of like the Canberra Brave or Tampa Bay Lightning of 18/19. Their imports are sisters, one of whom played for the CWHL, and a girl who played for them. I HATE this team they’re really hard to play against and are super skilled. Melbourne v Sydney games are GREAT because the rivalry is real and it’s a rematch of last year’s gold medal game (They play again this weekend 14 and 15 of December.) Their social media presence is also really good!

Melbourne Ice Women: This is my team brace yourself. The Melbourne Ice (MIW) are affiliated with the men’s team of the same name. They’ve won the most championships in the league. I’m telling you if you live in Melbourne and haven’t come to one of these games you’re missing out. The crowd is LOUD and ENTHUSIASTIC because there is a brigade of HABS (husbands and boyfriends) who come and go HARD for the team. They’re really skilled but have probably been underperforming this season. They also have a KILLER back half of the season because they’re playing Sydney and Adelaide. Now for some player info:

Christina Julien #91 F: One of the Ice imports and also the captain. She used to play soccer for team Canada and was nominated to their Olympic squad. A badass athlete who is basically a cheat code on the ice.

Megan Eady #44 D: The other Ice import. Literally such a beast. Said once that she had no idea what she was doing on the Ice which CAN’T be true she’s so good. The HABS sing a song when she scores to the tune of Evie by Steve Wright (Eady, Eady let your hair hang down)

Georgia Moore #12 F: Was the first Australian ever drafted into the CWHL (Nathan Walker eat your heart out). Has played for the team since it joined the league.

Shona Green #10 F: THE trailblazer for women’s hockey in Victoria. She was the first woman to play in a lot of the boys’ leagues growing up and has captained the Ice and Team Australia basically a hundred times.

Jenelle Carson #1 G: Absolutely bails out the team a heap. An amazing goalie whose sister (I think) plays on the team as well. Sings a lot during warmups. Literally just watch her games against Sydney this season she’s amazing.

Marnie Pullin #18 F: She’s 16 and had four points playing against grown women on Sunday. She’s already a beast and is only getting better. It’s just a coincidence her name sounds like Marie Philip Poulin but is it really? Go and watch her goals from the weekend (on the Melbourne Ice Women’s Twitter).

The Poutine Line: A fan favourite line made up of three Canadians: #7 Sarah Dash, #77 Nicole Jones and #19 Steph Conlon. Conlon and Dash are more or less in their first seasons on the team. This line is SO GOOD and FUN. Also Meika Yeo #86 D and Eady are totally honourary members of this line because they’re also Canadian and play at the same time as Poutine a lot.

Literally every player on this team is really fun and amazing and I could probably write heaps about all of them but I’m trying to keep it as short as possible.

Most of the teams have Facebook, Twitter and Instagram so give them and the league a follow to keep up with them! Also Women’s Sports Highlights (@ Wsporthilights) on Twitter clips all the best moments of the games so give them a follow too!

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A decade of ‘Young Blood’ goes digital

By: Nikka G. Valenzuela

In 2013, physician Korina Ada Tanyu’s harrowing tale of a sickly boy from a low-‍income family appeared on the Young Blood column of the Inquirer. “Filipino Horror Story” was terrifying and gut-wrenching, not just because of how the story goes, but because of how real and recurrent it was.

“I was on pediatric ICU (intensive care unit) duty at [the Philippine General Hospital] when I wrote that piece. I was very tired and overwhelmed. That time, we had to shell out our money for patients’ medicines and laboratories. Sometimes, we even had to shell out money for their diapers. Then I realized that a lot of Filipinos are not aware of what goes on inside public hospitals,” she told Super in an email interview.

So she decided to write the story, submit it to the Inquirer’s youth column, along with her wish that other families be spared from what happened to the boy and his parents. “When I wrote the essay, that story was pretty common. Money was (and still is) a factor in why a lot of patients refused to have their checkup. It also doesn’t help that there are very few well-equipped public hospitals in the country,” Tanyu added. It has been more than eight years since Tanyu’s essay was published, and significant strides have now been made in the health-care system, according to the doctor. Hospital facilities have been upgraded and doctors no longer have to pay out of their own pockets to cover the lab tests of their patients, though there’s still a long way to go.

But even after nearly a decade, Tanyu’s essay continues to strike a chord, much like the confessions, thoughts, hopes and dreams printed on the Inquirer’s Young Blood column. These thought-provoking, inspiring and intriguing pieces are available in “Young Blood Omnibus Volume Two,” a digital compilation of “Young Blood” books 4, 5 and 6. The e-book, which will be released a little over a year after the first volume, will be available starting Nov. 10 on Lazada, shop.inquirer.com.ph, Amazon, Google Play Books and Apple for P795 or $15.99.

“So much has changed, and certainly even more has changed in the ten years covered by the three books in this collection. This is a great collection of authors: award-winning writers, directors, politicians, activists, lawyers, doctors and so much more. Now, one can find these three books in one place at a good price, in digital form, so you could read it anytime, anywhere on any device,” said Ruel S. De Vera, Inquirer Books editor.

The three anthologies are the most popular “Young Blood” books to date, De Vera added. The fourth collection is on its second printing, while the fifth one has sold out. Stocks of the sixth book is running low. “The e-book seemed like the best, most accessible way of keeping books available somehow,” he said. The digital book will be launched live on Wednesday, on Inquirer.net’s Facebook page. Former Opinion editor and Young Blood gatekeeper Rosario “Chato” Garcellano will be a speaker at the event while former Young Blood books editor JV Rufino will talk about the 27-year history of the hit column.

De Vera, who is also Young Blood Brand editor, and Super editor Pam Pastor will host the event. Contributors whose names have appeared in the three Young Blood books will also read their essays. Jessica Marie “Aika” Robredo will read her piece about her late father, Ramon Magsaysay awardee Jesse Robredo, which she wrote at age 15. Mikee Baylosis, meanwhile, will read “The Underdog Club,” a piece that is sure to resonate with fresh (and not-so-fresh) graduates looking to make their mark on the world. The 29-year-old professor started in Young Blood before writing for the IamGenM column of the Inquirer. Lady Hanifah Mindalano-Alonto will also be reading her essay, “What does my hijab means,” wherein she describes a world of difference by whether or not she chooses to put on a head covering in public. Her essay is included in “Young Blood 6.”

Aika Robredo

Mike Baylosis

Lady Mindalano-Alonto

The three essays just prove that “Young Blood” has a wealth of stories from the under 30 writers. All told, the e-book collects stories from 2005 to 2015, a full decade. “There are situations galore, sufficient reminders to the Reader that the young writers are no strangers to the peaks and valleys of human condition,” wrote Garcellano in the introduction of “Young Blood 4.” Familiar names also crop up in the e-book, like sought-after director Antoinette Jadaone, former Kabataan partylist Rep. Mong Palatino and award-winning journalists and writers.

There are love letters, like Hyacinth Tagupa’s very relatable “Taga-Public,” written as a tribute to her classmates and the many graduates of public schools. Tagupa went on to become a columnist under IamGenM, but according to her, “Young Blood is a touchstone for budding essayists in the Philippines.” The youth column, which appears every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, receives as many as 300 contributions per week. Only a few make it to the left side of the Opinion page, and only a couple dozens on the anthologies. For some writers, it has become a sort of rite of passage to have their essays appear on Young Blood. But for other writers and readers like Fae Cheska Marie Esperas, Young Blood was a “platform” that she “trusted (with her) personal insights.” In 2015, she wrote “Begin Again,” about restarting life after the devastation of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan). “It was only at that time when the genuine feeling of ‘hope’ kicked in, that we Warays can start getting back on our own feet, sustainability wise. True, the year prior to writing the essay, we received help from all over the world, but what would happen next after they leave? It was only at that time I wrote the essay when Tacloban and Leyte were beginning to return to normal. The wounds were still there, aching, but we were on our way to recovery,” Esperas told Super. She had wanted to share her story, to send a message of hope for those need it.

“I guess I want the readers realize that despair is not eternal. There’s always hope lurking in the darkest corners of the room, just waiting for the right time to come out. Hope alone may not solve things, but it’s more than enough to jumpstart your journey to recovery. So yeah, keep the hope alive,” she said. •With the repackaged version of “Young Blood” that would bring with it more readers, Tanyu hopes that first-time readers will pick up a few important things from her essay: from addressing preventable and curable diseases through early intervention, to the state of health care in the country. •“I also want them to see that as long as poverty exists, people will not prioritize health. I want them to realize that both patients and the government contribute to health care–for patients to take responsibility for their health and for the government to actually use the budget for health care,” Tanyu said. Tagupa, meanwhile, hopes that her contributions to Young Blood “become relics as the years pass.” “I wrote about public schooling and then about women’s struggles, and I would really like for future readers’ context to be different from mine when I was writing those. Maybe they’ve gotten a much better public school experience than I had. Maybe women have gotten more safety and security. When that future arrives (and maybe it already has, partly), my essays would feel outdated and readers might say, ‘We no longer experience these hardships.’ But that’s the goal!” Tagupa added.

Join the launch of the “Young Blood Omnibus Volume Two” live on the Inquirer.net Facebook page on Nov. 10 at 5 p.m.

https://inquirersuper.com.ph/books/a-decade-of-young-blood-goes-digital/

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

Round 3 - Match 5

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

Round 2 - Match 5

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

Round 4 - Match 3

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

Round 4 - Match 1

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

Round 1 - Match 15

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Best Underdog Whose Name Starts With "G" 📂🇬🖋️

Round 1 - Match 4

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