{"id":10084,"date":"2023-11-03T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2023-11-09T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T22:46:19","slug":"ice-hockey-continues-strong-membership-growth-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/ice-hockey-continues-strong-membership-growth-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Hockey Continues Strong Membership Growth in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\":R1al9aqqd9emhpapd5aqH2:\" class=\"x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13\" data-ad-comet-preview=\"message\" data-ad-preview=\"message\">\n<div class=\"x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u\">\n<div class=\"xu06os2 x1ok221b\">\n<p>Ice hockey continues to grow at an impressive rate in New Zealand!<\/p>\n<p>As we near the end of the 2023 playing year, here&#8217;s a snapshot of your nationwide ice hockey community!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Youngest registered player: 4 years, 7 months, 20 days<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf70 Oldest registered player: 80 years, 2 months,16 days<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf0f Nationalities represented: 63<br \/>\n\u2708 Players born overseas: 43%<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddff Players born in New Zealand: 57%<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 year saw NZIHF membership grow by 9%, primarily in our Learn to Play and Junior age groups. We gained +1 position on the IIHF global membership ranking, now placed 28\/81 for total player numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Female participation continues to grow in the sport, with New Zealand ranked 15th globally, for the percentage of female players involved in the sport (23%, +2% vs 2022).<\/p>\n<p>The continued growth and presence of ice hockey throughout New Zealand wouldn&#8217;t be possible without the hundreds of volunteers putting in an immeasurable amount of time behind the scenes &#8211; thank you for all your support!<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic-560x420.png 560w, https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/nzihf-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023-Membership-Infographic.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice hockey continues to grow at an impressive rate in New Zealand! As we near the end of the 2023 playing year, here&#8217;s a snapshot of your nationwide ice hockey community! \ud83d\udcc5 Youngest registered player: 4 years, 7 months, 20 days \ud83c\udf70 Oldest registered player: 80 years, 2 months,16 days \ud83c\udf0f Nationalities represented: 63 \u2708 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,122,140,123,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10088,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions\/10088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzicehockey.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}