{"id":1294385,"date":"2021-05-05T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1294385"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:25:40","slug":"ice-hockey-programs-for-girls-and-women-experience-a-huge-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1294385","title":{"rendered":"Ice hockey programs for girls and women experience &#8216;a huge boom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ice-hockey-programs-for-girls-and-women-experience-a-huge-boom\/19659920\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2021\/05\/04\/19659961\/select.juniorcanescamp_2104100388-DMID1-5qr7ruotj-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Ice hockey programs for girls and women experience 'a huge boom'\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Among the hundreds of soccer programs and Little League baseball teams, ice hockey programs in the early 2000s were a rarity for young North Carolinians &#8212; especially for girls and young women. But that&#8217;s changing. Now, a group of retired NWHL professional players, a $215,000 investment from the Carolina Hurricanes and hundreds of hockey supporters are part of a movement to make ice hockey accessible to girls and women of all ages across the state. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ice-hockey-programs-for-girls-and-women-experience-a-huge-boom\/19659920\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ice-hockey-programs-for-girls-and-women-experience-a-huge-boom\/19659920\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ice hockey programs for girls and women experience &#039;a huge boom&#039;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the hundreds of soccer programs and Little League baseball teams, ice hockey programs in the early 2000s were a rarity for young North Carolinians &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","category-featured-stories","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910365,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294385\/revisions\/1910365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}