27 Facts About Ringette

Ringette is a non-contact winter team sport using ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips and a blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for use on ice surfaces.

Ringette is among a small number of organized team sports created exclusively for women.

Ringette is most popular in Canada and Finland with both countries forming the top international teams on a regular basis.

Ringette has spread to Finland, Sweden, the United States, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and unofficially to the United Arab Emirates.

The annual Canadian Ringette Championships serve as Canada's premiere competition for the sport's elite amateur athletes.

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Ringette is played by two opposing teams of six players on an ice rink.

Ringette rink uses five free pass circles, each of which has a bisecting line.

Ringette goaltenders are the only players allowed to play the ring with their hands but must do so from within their goal crease, which only they can enter.

Ringette games are played on ice rinks either indoors or outdoors.

Ringette uses a blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for play on an ice surface.

Ringette rings have two designs: one for use on ice and another for use on dry floors, including gym ringette.

Ringette sticks are straight and have tapered ends with metal drag-tips or plastic drag-tips designed with grooves to increase the lift and velocity of the wrist shot.

Ringette facemasks are designed to meet ringette's specific safety requirements and are available in different styles for both goaltenders and other players.

Ringette was created in Northern Ontario, Canada, as a civic recreation project for girls by its two founders, Samuel Perry Jacks from North Bay, Ontario, and Mirl "Red" McCarthy from Espanola, Ontario.

Ringette was created in the hopes of increasing and maintaining female participation in winter sport under the existing authority of the Society of Directors of Municipal Recreation of Ontario and the Northern Ontario Recreation Directors Association .

Ringette is a new attempt to provide a winter team sport, on skates, for girls.

SDMRO then developed and organized the sport on a larger scale, and in 1969 the Ontario Ringette Association was formed as a provincial governing body.

Ringette's received the Order of Canada for this work in 2002.

Ringette was introduced to the Midwestern United States in the mid-1970s and had gained popularity by the 1980s with most activity centred in Minnesota.

In 1986, the World Ringette Council was founded in Finland to promote and develop the sport internationally and to establish international competitions.

The following year, the World Ringette Council changed its name to the International Ringette Federation, possibly to avoid confusion due to the fact that it had the same acronym as the world event.

Ringette is played in all ten Canadian provinces and the Northwest Territories.

Ringette Canada is the country's national organizing body and promotes the sport.

Ringette became a part of the Canada Winter Games program in 1991.

The Swedish Ringette Association is an associate member of the Swedish Sports Confederation.

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Ringette has had an unintentional influence on the more-established sport of ice hockey, including a minor effect on men's professional ice hockey and a larger impact on girl's and women's ice hockey.

Ringette remains one of the few organized sports worldwide where all of its elite athletes are female rather than male.