Red Hawks Rep teams PLAy IN PCAHA - Pacific coast Amateur hockey association

The Benefits of Playing in PCAHA

Playing in PCAHA provides WWFHA’s student-athlete the highest level of age-specific female hockey in the Pacific Northwest. Beyond the physical, personal character and social benefits of playing the sport of ice hockey, playing age-specific all-girl hockey allows the player to be challenged by her peers, which spurs rapid development. Simultaneously, she learns the high level female game that college and national teams play.

Unlike the boy’s PCAHA league, ninety-eight percent of all our games, home and away, occur on the weekends, allowing for fewer late nights and missed school. 

Unlike the boys’ Rep teams whom have to travel the mountain passes for games 2+ hours away, the route to play female PCAHA games is on a flat I-5 highway.

What is PCAHA?

The Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association (PCAHA) governs minor hockey in the Lower Mainland district of BC Hockey in Canada, including the area from Hope to the Sunshine Coast. The PCAHA's membership consists of 42 minor hockey associations and 2 above-minor leagues. Approximately 19,700 male and female players aged 5 to 20; 6,000 coaches, managers, and other team officials; 2,100 referees; and many other volunteers participate in the game of hockey within the PCAHA. 

One of fourteen (14) associations in the PCAHA female hockey division, WWFHA is the only US female hockey association allowed in PCAHA per a contract established in the 1990s. 

WWFHA supports five Seattle Red Hawks teams in PCAHA.

Seattle Red Hawks teams are considered guests in the female division, as PCAHA votes each year whether or not to accept the organization and each team for the season. Although originally a non-voting member, WWFHA’s long standing support of and cooperation with PCAHA over the last decade has earned us an invitation to be a voting member for years now.