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Aruban officiates at the NWHL All-Star Game

BOSTON, US — Sarah Hick-
man-Harms, daughter of
Aruban born Esther Ruth
Harms, is a referee with in-
ternational certification to
referee youth, high school,
college and women’s pro-
fessional games in the Unit-
ed States. Sarah’s parents
are Dr. Stephen Hickman
and Aruban born Esther
Ruth Harms. Her picture ap-
pears on the cover of the
Ice Hockey Official Rules and drew over 10,000 view-
and Casebook. Last year ers. The NWHL All Stars are
she officiated three games selected by the teams and
of the Canadian Women's fans. sults in regular team mates periods of 20 minutes play-
Hockey League (CWHL) In other sports, divisions of playing against each other ing time; it splits the game
between Calgary Inferno the league play against in the All-Star Game, but in two 25-minute periods of
and Shenzhen KRS Vanke the all-stars of the other di- does not take away the four-on-four hockey.
Rays in Shenzhen, China. visions. competitive spirit of the For the record, Team
As NWHL is made up of only players. It does create a di- Dempsey beat Team
Last weekend Sarah offici- five teams, the selected lemma for the fans. Packer 5 – 2 and Lovisa Se-
ated as linesman the 2020 players are assigned to two The fans who are loyal to a lander of Team Dempsey
National Women’s Hockey teams by their captains. team in the regular see its (Boston Pride player) was
League All-Star Game in Alternating turns, the cap- players play against each selected as the MVP of the
the jam-packed, com- tains choose one player other, have no affinity to 2020 NWHL All-Star Game.
pletely sold out, standing- every turn. any one of the teams, so Sarah is thrilled and proud
room-only crowd at War- This year the teams were there is less enthusiasm to have been asked to
rior Ice Arena in Boston, named after their captains: among them and much officiate in such a presti-
MA. Twitch (official live Team Dempsey and Team less shouting in the Arena. gious game and yours truly,
streamers NWHL games) Packer. The NWHL All-Star game her grandfather Clyde R.
livestreamed the game This assignment process re- also deviates from the 3 Harms, shares her pride.q