"Ice" Girls or "Dancing" Girls?
I know that there are some who laughed at the passion I had for my job as a St. Louis Blues Ice Girl. There was nothing glamorous about what we did. I mean, we scraped the ice while trying to stay out of the way of at least 10 large hockey players. Occasionally, they would forget about us and would take a swig of Gatorade as we were coming upon them and then spit it out.
Sometimes it would hit us, more often it missed, but it was still gross. We squeegeed and shoveled snow that was full of blood, we held our breath as we skated by the guys who smelled of season long padding fungus. Nope, nothing glamorous there.(Here's a photo of me with my shovel and my bucket.)
We wore respectable uniforms (that we all hated, I may add) that consisted of black pants (not so bad) and a women's size Blues jersey. I understand why they had us in the jersey, but man, it didn't do anything for our figures. First of all, its shiny. Shiny stuff always makes you look bigger than you really are. (Speaking of which, did anyone see the God Bless America singer at the All Star Game a few days ago? Where was her stylist?) Second of all, it had a giant Blue Note smack dab in the middle of our chest. Maybe that's good for the girls who needed a little help in that area, but it didn't do much for me.
Not that there were a lot of them, but the perks were nice. We got paid, occasionally got some free food, were able to get great seats to games for free (if they were available), had our picture taken with some fans, and people knew who we were. Sometimes they would get our names wrong (sorry sir, we are the Ice Girls, not the Snowcones...) but at least we were acknowledged.

Not this season. Nope. No longer at the Blues Organization will they have Ice Girls scraping the ice. Nope. This season, the Ice Girls will be more like dancers, game entertainment. Apparently, they will have some young hockey players scraping the ice while the girls get to do things more of a sexy nature.
I really don't have a problem with it. I am upset that my job no longer exists because it was fun to put my skates on three times a month and skate at STC. I am upset that the new Ice Girls don't need skating experience because I love skating and I have less dance experience than skating experience. I wish that it could be the way that I want it to be, but it's not. I'm learning to adapt.
I haven't decided yet if I'm going to try out. I mean, what in the world is it going to consist of? I do know that we need to wear "dance" clothes, meaning tight yoga pants and a midriff top. I know that there will be callbacks and I know that I need to give them $10 with my application, but what the heck are they going to make us do and who the heck is going to be there? Is this going to be a white trash convention or is it going to be a girl hockey convention like last year? I'll probably show up. I showed up last year and it was completely different than I thought, so what the heck. At least I will have my sister with me!

