Mayhem Players Off To Women’s World Championships

Mayhem's Felicity Gregory, Peter Hagan and Emily McLean on GB Duty at Skien in 2024 (Photo by Breanna Wagner)

A number of players and team staff from the Mayhem sledge team are away on international duty this week at the Women’s World Championships that are being held in Dolny Kubin, Slovakia.

Felicity Gregory, Emily McLean and Nicola Terrell are all playing for Great Britain while Canadian Peggy Assinck is icing for her home nation.

The Mayhem’s men’s / mixed GB international Karl Nicholson is travelling as Assistant Coach and Peter Hagan is Equipment Manager.

This year sees the first ever official Women’s World Championship for Para Ice Hockey. There have been three “test” competitions held in previous years – called the World Women’s challenge - in Green Bay, USA, in 2022 and 2023 and Skien, Norway in 2024.

In each of those tournaments, the USA have taken the Gold Medal with Canada coming second and GB finishing 4^th.

This year’s inaugural World Championships sees 6 teams taking part – USA, Canada, Australia, Norway, Great Britain and a “Team World”, which is a composite team made up of players from nine different nations across Europe and Asia, including four from the Czech Republic and two from both Germany and Slovakia.

The teams will be split into two groups of three – with Team GB being paired up with Canada and Team World and, once the group stage is complete, there will be semi finals and a final to decide the final medal positions.

 

The full Team GB squad is:

• Freya Austin - Peterborough Phantoms
• Shannon Couch - Cardiff Huskies
• Dani Czernuszka-Watts - Cardiff Huskies
• Leanne Emmerson - Cardiff Huskies
• Felicity Gregory - Manchester Mayhem
• Davina Hall - Peterborough Phantoms
• Jodie Hill- Cardiff Huskies
• Helen McGivern- Cardiff Huskies
• Emily McClean - Manchester Mayhem
• Stacey Quirk - Peterborough Phantoms
• Nicola Terrell - Manchester Mayhem
• Kirsty Van Der Poll - Sheffield Steelkings

 

The full schedule for the 2025 Women’s World Championships is as follows:

 

Tuesday 26^th August:

Australia v USA – 16.00 CEST / 15.00 BST

Team World v Canada – 19.00 CEST / 18.00 BST

 

Wednesday: 27th August:

Norway v Australia – 16.00 CEST / 15.00 BST

Great Britain v Team World – 19.30 CEST (18.30 BST)

Thursday 28th August:

USA v Norway – 16.00 CEST / 15.00 BST

Canada v Great Britain – 19.30 CEST (18.30 BST)

 

Saturday 30^th August:

5th/6th Place Game – 12.30 CEST / 11.30 BST
Semi Final 1 (Winner A vs Runner Up B) – 16.00 CEST / 15.00 BST
Semi Final 2  (Winner B vs Runner Up A) – 19.30 CEST / 18.30 BST

Sunday 31^st August:

Bronze Medal Game 15.30 CEST / 14.30 BST

Final – 19.00 CEST / 18.00 BST