{"id":105811,"date":"2017-02-10T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=105811"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T22:06:02","slug":"a-happy-mix-bates-womens-ice-hockey-enjoys-an-unprecedented-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/10\/a-happy-mix-bates-womens-ice-hockey-enjoys-an-unprecedented-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A happy mix of newcomers and veterans propels women&#8217;s club ice hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey McDermott &#8217;17 of Boston didn&#8217;t start playing ice hockey until her first year at Bates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A senior goalie threw me in the net and said, \u2018Let\u2019s give this a try.&#8217; And I fell in love with it,&#8221; says McDermott.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, she&#8217;s a co-captain of the 11-0 women&#8217;s club ice hockey team, which has its final regular-season game at 2 p.m. Feb. 12\u00a0 at Underhill Arena vs. the University of New England.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Happy Mix | Bates College Women&#039;s Ice Hockey\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y5k-BdslLYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Bates team is a happy mix of beginners and more experienced players led by a coach who didn&#8217;t play hockey until he was 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m kind of glad I got into it late because a lot of the women on the team got into it late,&#8221; says Jon Anctil, a Lewiston native and former member of the college&#8217;s grounds crew. &#8220;So I can relate with the frustrations and everything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates women&#8217;s club ice hockey team is enjoying an unprecedented season. They are undefeated heading in to their final regular season game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":105829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,8,130,31,11012,11009],"tags":[2376,8246],"class_list":["post-105811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-bates-values","category-collaboration","category-lewiston-auburn","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-club-sports","tag-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105837,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105811\/revisions\/105837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}