Keeping It it Inline
Norwin Inline Hockey Club celebrates growing membership.
By Jennifer Brozak
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Photos by Ray Adams
M
ore than 20 years ago, a hodgepodge of youth athletes from surrounding
communities banded together to form a Christian inline ball hockey league. Known
as “Uv.Me&G,” which stood for “You versus Me and God,” the club has since
morphed into an organized league that includes the rapidly growing Norwin Inline
Hockey Club.
Today, around 30 players participate in NIHC, including one middle school team and two
high school teams. While the majority of players come from Norwin schools, the team
also welcomes students from other districts who don’t have their own club teams; this
past year, for instance, the club included players from both Yough and Southmoreland
school districts.
At the youth level, the club is co-ed and is part of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic
Roller Hockey League, which includes 98 teams from 18 school districts.
The original club, which began in 1996, was based in White Oak. Eventually,
participants from McKeesport, North Huntingdon, Elizabeth, Manor, Penn Township,
Export and Greensburg joined, and the league soon swelled to more than 400 players in
kindergarten through ninth grade. They initially played in parking lots using a portable rink
system before moving indoors to the old Blazers Fitness Center in Irwin and then the Kirk S.
Nevin Arena in Greensburg.
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