Children’s Ringette

The Children’s Ringette program provides an age and stage appropriate physical activity experience for young ringette players under the age of 10.

Children’s Ringette is focused on creating opportunities that emphasize: 

• age and stage appropriate activities
• fun and play
• grouping children based on skill and readiness
• maximum participation and engagement
• opportunities to practice learned skills
• adapted game play (small area games and mini-nets)

 

SEASON STRUCTURE

The Children’s Ringette season runs from October to March

Registration fees cover approximately 20 ice times.

Each ice time will be a minimum of 45 minutes and a maximum of 60 minutes in length.

 

DIVISIONS

Regina Ringette offers a Learn to Play Program as well as three divisions in Children’s Ringette:

• Learn to Play
• FUNdamentals 1 (FUN1)
• FUNdamentals 2 (FUN2)
• FUNdamentals 3 (FUN3)

 

Learn to Play

The Learn to Play (LTP) division provides children with an introduction to the sport of ringette, offering an opportunity to learn with players of similar abilities.

The ice-times are focused on the development of skills such as skating and stopping, as well as ringette-specific skills like ring control and shooting.

Each ice-time will start with a group activity and then break into smaller, manageable stations to play and work through skills during fun activities.

Ice times will be once per week, dates and times to be determined.

The LTP division includes children ages 4-9 with little or no skating experience. Exceptions for other ages can be made in consultation with the Children’s Ringette Director.

FUNdamentals Divisions:

 In the FUNdamentals divisions, new players will participate in on-ice skills evaluations at the start of the season to help place them into the appropriate division and draft them onto teams. Previous registrants will have a graded report card for placement.

Some of the factors being considered to evaluate the participants include:

• falling and getting up
• skating forward and backward
• stopping
• ring control – shooting and passing

FUN 1

FUN 1 is for children who are new to ringette or new to skating, learning basic game structure, and still developing basic skills. Typically, Fun 1 players are aged 5 and 6 but there is plenty of room for flexibility based on each individual player.

Each 55-minute ice-time will be divided into:

• 30-45 minutes of practice time concentrating on the development of skating and basic ring skills, an introduction to some of the rules of ringette, as well as fun games and team activities.
• Remaining minutes of ice time will be a game against another FUN 1 team.

The Game portion of each ice-time will be:

• Half-ice format
• 4-on-4
• No Goalies or goal creases
• No Passing lines
• 2-3 minute shifts (facilitated by the Coaches)
• No officials
• No Scoreboards or Standings
• No Game sheets

 

The FUN 1 division will have ice-times typically once per week which may be any weekday evening or on the weekend.

Teams in this division will collect a nominal player fee to cover such things as:  the league equipment deposit, team clothing, team pictures and team bonding activities.

 

FUN 2

FUN 2 is for children who have improved their skating ability, are ready to learn more rules of ringette, and have developed some basic skills. Typically, Fun 2 players are aged 6 and 7 but there is plenty of room for flexibility based on each individual player.

Each 55-60 minute ice-time will be divided into:

• 50-60% practice time concentrating on the development of skating skills, ring skills, passing, shooting, checking, basic goalie instruction, and an introduction to the rules and game concepts of ringette.
• 20-30 minutes of game time against another FUN 2 team.

 

The Game portion of each ice-time will include:

• Three Quarter-Ice format to start and move to full ice later in the year.
• 3-on-3 skaters plus a goalie on each team
• Goalies use goal sticks and players rotate through the goalie position
• Goal Creases 
• Passing lines as available or both blue lines later in the year.
• 2-3 minute shifts (facilitated by a Timekeeper using the buzzer)
• 1-2 Official to enforce penalties and violations (Coaches can help to enforce rule violations) with safety top of mind
• No Scoreboards or Standings
• A modified Game Sheet

 

The Home team on the Schedule will provide a Timekeeper and the Game Sheet, and the Visiting team’s Coaches will be responsible to draw one Goal Crease.

The FUN2 division will have ice-times typically once per week and may be any weekday evening or on the weekend.
Teams in this division will collect a nominal player fee to cover such things as: the league equipment deposit, extra team practice ice, team clothing, team pictures and team bonding activities.

 FUN 3

FUN 3 is for children who demonstrate that they have acquired the physical, cognitive, and social readiness for more challenging play. Typically, Fun 3 players are aged 8 and 9 but there is plenty of room for flexibility based on each individual player.

FUN 3 will play full-ice, one hour ringette games with Ringette Canada Rules and mini nets.

• Games will be 2×17-minute stop time periods
• Games are officiated by two referees
• Goal Cap of 3 goals per player, per game
• Regular Game Sheet (provided by the home team)
• Scoreboards and Standings
• 1 Timekeeper (visitor) and 1 Scorekeeper (home) each game

Net Usage

• Big nets may be used in practices only as a stepping stone for goalies and players moving to U12. Mini- nets needs to be used for all league and playoff games.
• Mini- Nets will be used during Fun 3 playoffs as Not all children are moving up to U12 and could put a younger team at a disadvantage. 

Teams in FUN 3 will be allocated additional practice ice weekly that they will pay for out of Team collected Fees. Registration fees cover game-day ice and referees.

Ice-times in this division will be one to two times per week and may be any weekday evening or on the weekend.

FUN3 teams often participate in nearby tournaments throughout the Ringette season.

Teams in this division will collect a nominal player fee to cover such things as: the league equipment deposit, team practice ice, tournament registration/travel, team clothing, team pictures and team bonding activities.

EQUIPMENT

Full ringette equipment is required. Jerseys and Goalie equipment will be provided.

HOW TO REGISTER

For more information on how to register please visit Regina Ringette Registration Information.