Welcome to Rose City Hockey Club, an all-girls ice hockey program based in the Portland-Vancouver area. Girls, trans, non-binary and gender expansive players ages 5-16 are welcome.
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Our Mission
To create a thriving, affordable ice hockey program for girls that provides them with the skills needed to succeed on and off the ice.
We Value Inclusion & Diversity
About Us
Caroline Parks and Rose King are passionate about growing girls ice hockey in Portland, OR. To transform their vision into reality, they began laying the groundwork for the Rose City Hockey Club with the help of friend and teammate, Jessica Duggan. They kicked off the first season in Fall 2013.
Today Caroline and Rose continue to lead the program and plan its future growth. Dozens of women from Portland's adult hockey community volunteer with the Club each weekend. Several hockey parents have also stepped up to coach as well. We're proud of them for being excellent role models and, frankly, darn good hockey players! With their help, Caroline and Rose have created a positive, supportive environment that inspires girls to do their very best on and off the ice!
How You Can Support our Team
Buy cool hockey stuff & 15% will go to our hockey girls. Or heck, just make a donation via PayPal. Scroll up to see the link on this page. (And thank you!!!)
Founders:
Caroline Parks -- USA Hockey Certified Level 3 Coach
Current Board of Directors and Past/Present Coaching Staff
Carolyn Goncoe - RCHC BOD President
Kate Wiggin - USA Hockey Certified Level 4 Coach
Chelsea Moore - USA Hockey Certified Level 3 Coach & Gear Captain
Ken Webster - former RCHC BOD President
To create a thriving, affordable ice hockey program for girls that provides them with the skills needed to succeed on and off the ice.
We Value Inclusion & Diversity
- We welcome people of all backgrounds and denounce all forms of racism & discrimination.
- We run a robust scholarship program open to all people and offer free gear to any player who needs it.
- We mentor female athletes in an effort to teach them life lessons such as treating all people with dignity and respect.
About Us
Caroline Parks and Rose King are passionate about growing girls ice hockey in Portland, OR. To transform their vision into reality, they began laying the groundwork for the Rose City Hockey Club with the help of friend and teammate, Jessica Duggan. They kicked off the first season in Fall 2013.
Today Caroline and Rose continue to lead the program and plan its future growth. Dozens of women from Portland's adult hockey community volunteer with the Club each weekend. Several hockey parents have also stepped up to coach as well. We're proud of them for being excellent role models and, frankly, darn good hockey players! With their help, Caroline and Rose have created a positive, supportive environment that inspires girls to do their very best on and off the ice!
How You Can Support our Team
Buy cool hockey stuff & 15% will go to our hockey girls. Or heck, just make a donation via PayPal. Scroll up to see the link on this page. (And thank you!!!)
Founders:
Caroline Parks -- USA Hockey Certified Level 3 Coach
- Co-Founder and former President of RCHC. She has also served as Head Coach in our House program and on several of our travel teams.
- Over 20 years of experience playing hockey in Oregon and Maine.
- Played varsity ice hockey at Bowdoin College, Maine.
- Captain of 2003 Pacific Ice Dogs national women's senior B tournament team.
- Captain/Team Rep of Winterhawks Skating Center Division III co-ed team.
- Co-Founder of Women’s Monday Night hockey league.
- Co-Founder and former President of RCHC. She has also served as the RCHC Vice President, Dir of Hockey, and as Head Coach of various teams in both our House and Dev programs.
- Over 20 years of experience playing adult hockey in Arizona, Washington D.C., & Oregon.
- Captain/Fundraiser for the Washington Wolves Women’s Hockey Club, Sr C.
- Member of Women’s Monday Night Leadership Council.
- Played youth hockey in Massachusetts (ages 10-12).
- PS - No, the club isn't named after Rose. Rose City is the nickname for Portland, OR. Lucky coincidence :)
Current Board of Directors and Past/Present Coaching Staff
Carolyn Goncoe - RCHC BOD President
- Carolyn has enjoyed hockey - from off the ice - since she was a little girl when her dad took her to Hartford Whalers games. When her daughter asked to play at age 4, she signed her up to learn. It took a few years to figure it out as a non-hockey playing parent. When she found RCHC, hockey really clicked for her daughter.
- She has a passion for women supporting other women and girls having found herself the only woman in the room many times in her career in software.
- She started volunteering with RCHC as a locker room monitor. She then served as a team manager and then as Secretary for 2 years.
- She is always happy to chat about navigating hockey as a non-hockey family and is always learning more from the hockey families!
Kate Wiggin - USA Hockey Certified Level 4 Coach
- Coach Kate has 20 years of ice hockey experience in New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington.
- She played NCAA Div III Ice Hockey at St. Lawrence University (an amazing hockey school).
- Doctor Kate (as we call her because, well, she's a doc) is also a member of the Women’s Hockey Leadership Council.
Chelsea Moore - USA Hockey Certified Level 3 Coach & Gear Captain
- In 2010, Chelsea started coaching ASA girls youth softball in California. She has coached a wide range of ages.
- She began coaching an ASA 10U summer-ball team and went on to coach softball at a JV high school in the spring. (Love that she brings so much coaching experience to our program!)
- After moving back home to Portland in 2014, Coach Chelsea caught the hockey bug and hasn't looked back. She plays adult league hockey at WSC and continues to train with Doug Lynch Hockey.
- Chelsea's countless hours as Gear Captain makes possible our policy of free gear for players making hockey more affordable for all.
Ken Webster - former RCHC BOD President
- Ken loves hockey and was ecstatic when his (then) 13 year old daughter decided she wanted to learn to play hockey. He was even more ecstatic to learn that Rose City Hockey existed!
- He’s an attorney by trade and an executive leader at a tax research firm based here in Oregon. He also has experience serving on other Boards of Directors.
- Ken is passionate about growing youth hockey, specifically for female athletes (he has 3 daughters!).
- What you won’t see is Ken out there coaching on the ice – he can barely stand up on skates (please excuse him – he grew up in rural Idaho where the only “rink” was a pond and nobody even knew what hockey was). Ken’s passion for hockey came later in life. He mostly wants to be involved to help grow opportunities for female athletes and shine a spotlight on the best sport on the planet.