Mayhem GB trio Felicity Gregory, Peter Hagan and Emily McLean at the World Women's Challenge in Norway (Photo by Breanna Wagner)
Four members of the Mayhem sledge team were on international duty at the World Women’s Challenge in Skien, Norway, last week.
Felicity Gregory and Emily McLean were part of the Great Britain women’s team while Mayhem Team Manager Peter Hagan travelled as Equipment Manager. Mayhem’s Canadian national Peggy Assinck also attended the tournament as a player with Team Canada.
The tournament acts as an unofficial world championship for women’s sledge hockey and pitched the GB ladies up against national teams from the USA and Canada - and two composite teams made up of players of different nationalities from Europe and the Pacific region.
Team GB lost their first two games 10-0 to Canada and 7-0 to the USA but then recorded their first ever victory in this competition with a narrow 1-0 win over Team Pacific. GB team captain Stacey Quirk from Peterborough Phantoms scored the only goal of the game 2 minutes into the first period and Cardiff Huskies netminder Jodi Hill recorded a shut out.
Team GB’s last game of the competition was also close as they lost out 1-4 to Team Europe. Mayhem’s Emily McLean scored the GB goal in the 7th minute, in a game where all 5 goals came in the first period.
Peggy Assinck picked up her third silver medal in a row with Team Canada after they lost 3-0 to Team USA in the last game to finish behind the Americans in the final group standings. The USA went through the whole tournament unbeaten – without even conceding a single goal – to win their third gold in three years.
