AA midget (17 years old), but then again I am Canadian and it's pretty much a right of passage.

I stopped when it was time to go to school, I wasn't good enough to get a full ride scholarship and really didn't want to try my luck at the Junior level.

I've gotten hickeys.

Also great for covering hickeys.

One of my sons wanted to play hockey when he was growing up and I would never let him because of the crazy practice times and distance to the rink. When he got out on his own, he joined a league! I was amazed-- I didn't even know he could skate.

I could never stay upright on skates!

Also... girls didn't play hockey when I was a kid.

as mentioned above, being Canadian.

But no, never ice, field, roller, or any other variation with sticks

hickey?

I used to have a back acre that froze over into a perfect rink every year, had flood lights and all, and I kept it nicely maintained, and of course street hockey all year around. And... the obligatory disclaimer "Yes, I am Canadian".

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I didn't play hockey, but I did enjoy ice skating.

I used to have a lot of fun, mimicking the Olympic figure skaters. I'm sure I looked nothing like them, but in my mind I did.

But it's so close to San Jose!

We have a huge pond hockey tourney here in Minnesota every year.

http://www.uspondhockey.com/

... and I hated it. It was a requirement in girls' gym class back in the day.

In high school..I still can't believe I ran that hard for so long. And I was a wing, too.

have to do all the running up and down the field LOL.

As an 8th grade girl.

They were literally skating rings around me. It took everything I had just to be able to stay upright on the ice, and even then if someone bumped into me I would quickly find myself on my backside.

you must have met my friend Joe Shlabotnik! He's from Canada and plays hockey.

Bet the music was great!!!

that is, Charlie Brown's Major League hero who always struck out and was eventually sent down to the minors

and naturally we played Pocket Pool year round .

I just got sick of the traveling and being constantly in pain...

I just quit one day... Couldn't get on the bus...

My knees are shot.

My ankles are shot.

My shoulders are shot.

All my joints creak. I had 3 concussions. Last one I don't even remember, just waking up on the bench....

I was smallish, 5.8 around 165 lbs...I got my ass kicked regularly, but I gave as good as I got...

Once I quit, around 21 or so, I started filling out... I got up to 225 lbs by 25...

Oh I wish I had that weight when I was playing!

Would I do it again? In a heartbeat, many great memories...

Just for a couple years. A classmate's dad was a Canadian from the maritimes.
He started a hockey league for 10 to 12 year olds. But there was only one rink in a town of nearly 80,000, so there was little ice time.

So, i'd say it was semi-organized. I remember the pads i had actually being too big so they had to be masking taped to tighten them.

I could skate, but i never played enough to really grasp the flow.

By 7t grade i realized i was better as basketball and baseball (all glove no bat, though) and did that.

Since i outgrew the skates, my parents were completely happy with that.

But I once skated all the way around the ice rink without falling down.

I was about 5. They & their friends were 12 & 10.

I think they just liked to shoot the puck at my head.

But I love the game to this day & wish there would have been organized girls/womens hockey 40 years ago when I was a kid.

I as a wing, and then I started developing these things called Big Boobs and I could not run as fast..

duh!

And lots of floor hockey, too.

at therapeutic boarding school (don't ask).

They didn't really enforce the offside rule, since there was no blue line on the basketball court, so one night I stationed myself in front of the net and poured in seven. Seven!