MVP Awards - Match 4: Widnes Wild Women's Team v Milton Keynes Falcons

10th March 2019 - Women's Premier League
Widnes Wild Women's Team 1 - Milton Keynes Falcons 4

Milton Keynes Falcons' team captain Kirsten Noble receives the MVP award from Shannon Holt
(Photo by Paul Breeze - www.icehockeyreview.co.uk)

Wild women's netminder Stephanie Drinkwater received the Widnes MVP from Lucy London
(Photo by Paul Breeze - www.icehockeyreview.co.uk)

You can read the match report HERE

And watch the video highlights HERE

MVP Awards - Match 3: Widnes Wild Women's Team v Chelmsford Cobras

10th February 2019 - Women's Premier League
Widnes Wild Women's team 2 - Chelmsford Cobras 8

Cobras' Rosie Wallace receives the MVP award for Chelmsford
(Photo by Geoff White - www.gw-images.com)

Widnes Wild's Katie Adshead receives the MVP Award from sponsor Lucy London
(Photo by Geoff White - www.gw-images.com)


Read the match report HERE

Watch the video highlights HERE

MVP Awards - Match 2: Widnes Wild Women's Team v Nottingham Vipers

20th January 2019 - Women's Premier League
Widnes Wild Women's team 3 - Nottingham Vipers 9

Widnes Wild's Laura Marcroft receives the MVP award from Poet In Residence Lucy London
(Photo by Geoff White - www.gw-images.com)



Vipers' Alice Haddleton receives the MVP for Nottingham
(Photo by Geoff White - www.gw-images.com)

You can read the match report HERE

and watch the video highlights HERE

MVP Awards - Match 1: Widnes Wild Womens Team v Whitley Bay Squaws

9th December 2018 - Women's Premier League
Widnes Wild Women's team 1 - Whitley Bay Squaws 9


First World War volunteer worker Sarah Broom MacNaughtan, a writer, is being remembered by the Widnes Wild Women's Ice HockeyTeam, after the Widnes Planet Ice Rink's Poet in Residence, Lucy London, suggested naming the Team's Match Day Awards in Sarah's honour.

Photos by P. Breeze show (left) Lucy presenting the MVP (Most Valued Player) Award to Widnes player Victoria Venables, and (below) Amy Moran of the Whitley Bay Squaws Ice Hockey Team on 9th December 2018, Planet Ice, Widnes.




Widnes Wild women's team MVP Vicky Venables
(Photo by Paul Breeze - www.icehockeyreview.co.uk) 

MVP for the Whitley Bay Squaws was Amy Moran
(Photo by Paul Breeze - www.icehockeyreview.co.uk)

You can read the match report HERE 

WW1 Heroine Sarah MacNaughtan Remembered In Match Awards

(Originally posted on www.widneswild.co.uk on 5th December 2018 


There will be a new name on the MVP awards for the Widnes Wild women’s team’s home games this season and, rather than being one of the players, it will be the name of a World War One Heroine!



The Wild’s Poet In Residence Lucy London is sponsoring the match awards and is using the opportunity to spread the word about Sarah MacNaughtan – who was quite well known prior to the First World War but is all but forgotten today.


Lucy explains the story behind this:


“Since 2012, I’ve been researching the role of women in the First World War for a series of commemorative exhibitions. Having commemorated the First World War all my life it was not until I began researching for this project that I began to discover what women accomplished before they were allowed to vote. Women served in many of the theatres of the conflict and many of them died or were killed. Yet there are many of those women whose names do not appear on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission List of Female Casualties and, I have just found out that some of them may not even have graves, let alone a mention on a war memorial.


Sarah MacNaughtan is particularly interesting yet not many people have heard of her these days. She was 50 when war broke out; she was a successful writer with several books to her name and was a wealthy woman. Sarah was no stranger to war zones, having been in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil during the 1893 – 1894 bombardment. She also helped tending the wounded in South Africa during the Boer Wars and in The Balkans during The Balkan Wars.


In September 1914, Sarah travelled to Antwerp in Belgium with Mabel St. Clair Stobart’s ambulance unit to tend wounded French and Belgian soldiers. When Antwerp was evacuated, Sarah ordered a special mobile kitchen from Harrods in London and had it sent over so she could set up a soup kitchen in northern France. Sarah noticed the plight of wounded French and Belgian soldiers who were often left for days without attention in stations waiting for treatment because the most seriously wounded were tended to first.


After a speaking tour of England, Scotland and Wales, Sarah went to help out in Russia and Persia (now called Iran) in September 1915. During that time she continued to write books and have them published. Sarah returned to England exhausted and ill and died on 24th July 1916.
In sponsoring these Most Valued Player Awards, I wanted to make sure that Sarah’s name was remembered.”


You can read more about Sarah MacNaughtan and other fascinating women on Lucy’s Inspirational Women website at:
http://inspirationalwomenofww1.blogspot.com/2016/12/sarah-broome-macnaughtan-1864-1916.html
– and follow Lucy’s “Poet In Residence” Facebook page at www.facebook.com/lucy-poet-in-residence.