While there are increasing opportunities for female hockey players, this is not necessarily the case in Williams Lake - yet.
But opportunities are growing, with the help of local parents with a love for the game, and their daughters.
Amanda Fuller is one of those parents and is a coach of the Purple Predators U9 girls hockey team. Terry Duff is her fellow coach.
Fuller said the U13 girls team in Williams Lake has struggled to make up a team due to low numbers in recent years.
While girls can play integrated hockey with boys, once rep hockey begins at U13, there wouldn't be an opportunity for girls to challenge themselves or play on all-girls teams.
"We lose a lot of girls when there's no girls teams," said Fuller.
She said girls who stay in hockey, usually do so because of their peers. So she wanted to start building now to help show the girls what it might be like to play on an all-girls team.
Fuller grew up playing and didn't want to see her own daughter miss out on a chance to keep playing with nowhere to go. She said her daughter only started playing hockey because her friends did, but now she loves the game.
Fourteen of the players from the regular league U9 integrated teams are now on the Purple Predators roster, with more parents having reached out to express interest in their daughters getting involved.
The group practices once a month with the hopes to continue to build support and interest in all-girls hockey and the potential for an all-female league one day.
Despite not bringing home a win at a recent tournament, the Purple Predators "showed their true grit and hustle," said Fuller.
Even without a goalie, she said the team played incredibly well, against integrated teams.
"They just had the best time," she said.
"I'm so proud of all the girls on the team."
