What is ringette?

Ringette -

it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s a family.

Ringette is a fast team sport on ice, and it was originally developed for girls and women of all ages. Ringette players use a straight stick to pass, carry and shoot a rubber ring to score goals. Ringette is a team sport with no contact allowed.

Ringette is played on ice in a rink. In a ringette game there are five skaters and one goalkeeper from each team on the ice at the same time. Two teams play against each other and try to score goals. A specific rule in ringette is that the ring has to be passed from player to player over blue lines; one individual cannot dominate the game. Between the freeplay line and the end there can only be three skaters from each team at the same time.

Being a non-contact sport, ringette is also very popular in schools’ physical education classes.