AWHL Registration
The 2024-2025 season is complete!
Look out in late summer/early fall for 2025-2026 registration information.
Questions? Email us at anchoragewomenshockey@gmail.com.
AWHL SCHOLARSHIPS
To improve access to this sport we love, AWHL awards full ($450.00) and partial ($225.00) scholarships to applicants at the board's discretion.
For the first time this year, we allowed players to donate to our scholarship fund through the registration process and we raised $550 through this effort!
The AWHL Board decided to offer three partial scholarships in the amount of $185 in addition to the two full $450 scholarships we originally budgeted for.
Congratulations to our scholarship recipients!
ABOUT OUR TIERS
AWHL hoped to offer three tiers of play this year – Recreational, Intermediate, and Advanced. Our registration numbers indicate significantly more interest in the Intermediate tier, with only one team registering as Advanced.
Given the overwhelming interest in Intermediate and the low number of Advanced players, the AWHL Board has decided to combine those two tiers back into one Intermediate tier. Please note that this is intentionally a lower level of difficulty and competitiveness than last season’s Intermediate tier, and higher-level players will be required to play down.
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Players are welcome to register in more than one division, but should be fully comfortable with the skill minimums and willing to adhere to the rules and level of play in each division.
RECREATIONAL
- Skill minimums: No base skills required, most players will be new to skating (2 years or less) or new to hockey
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Slapshots not allowed
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Players should enjoy a slower pace in a recreational/fun environment
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More experienced players that join should be willing to guide/teach newer players (skate down)
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Least competitive with a focus on fun!
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For players who want to learn hockey fundamentals in a safe environment
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Players will register individually and a draft will be held to try to make balanced teams. Players may request a friend to play with.
INTERMEDIATE
- Skill minimums: stopping, functional understanding of rules and player positioning, comfortable with puck handling, comfortable skating with other players and maintaining control, does not rely on stick for balance.
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Team has fewer than 3 players with high school/college level-skills or who played competitively
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and team did not place in top 2 in the 2023 AWHL tournament (Intermediate Division)
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Slapshots not allowed
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Player is ready for more challenging and faster play than Recreational tier
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Division includes Player-Formed teams, where team reps collect the player fees and pay one team fee, and League-Formed teams, where players will register individually here and the league will form teams.