Bulldogs
Hockey Club

Northeast Ohio Girls Hockey Collaboration

Cleveland Suburban Girls Hockey Teams

 

 

Cleveland Lady Barons (full time and part time)

Garfield Heights Bulldogs (full time)

Eastside Tigers (part time)

Tri County Cyclones (part time)

North Olmsted Eagles (part time)

Shaker Heights (part time)

Parma Flyers (full time)

 

Find Your Girls Hockey Path

The typical path to start hockey is to take a learn to skate class, and then a beginner hockey class. Contact the Garfield Heights Dan Kostel Recreation Center to learn about both programs. If you have basic skating skills, jump right into beginner hockey, or join our girls hockey team!

 

Other options for girls include joining a co-ed club in the CSHL. Some CSHL clubs' rosters have numerous girls, and some clubs have part time girls teams too (players play full time on a co-ed team plus occasionally with an all girls team representing the club). 

 

Some girls who play in the CSHL also play on part time travel teams for the Cleveland Lady Barons from U8 to U12. The Lady Barons also offer full time travel teams at U12 and U14. The Lady Barons provide programming for competitive and elite girls hockey players.

 

U16 and above girls play full time for Gilmour, or on their co-ed high school teams. Girls hockey options in Cleveland continue to evolve and change. As more Cleveland girls join hockey, we hope more teams will be started, so that opportunities for all girls hockey games between local girls will continue to grow.

 

If you are over 18 and looking for a women's hockey team, the Cleveland Lady Barons Women's Team (formerly Team CLE, and formerly the Kent Twisters) offers a travel hockey team.

Part of a Legacy

Northeast Ohio is home to inspirational women's hockey players:

 

  • Olympians and IIHF World Champions
  • Former professionals
  • Numerous former and current NCAA / ACHA players

 

In 1916, Cleveland was home to the very first international women's hockey tournament. By the 1970's women's college hockey began in the Northeastern USA. Women's hockey was introduced to the Olympics in 1998, and in 2001 it became an official NCAA sport. There are now almost 45 NCAA Division 1 teams, including Ohio State, the 2022 Women's Ice Hockey National Champions. 

 

Today, over 90,000 girls and women are registered in USA Hockey and the sport continues to grow.