Loretta “Jane” Ring was a late bloomer when it came to the sport of hockey, but she started playing nearly 40 years ago, at the young age of 47. “I have a passion for the game,” she said, and she continued to play until she was 81. She started with a group of women in Roseville, who had played in a mother/son game and became ‘hooked’! She encouraged her daughter Sue to play, and the two of them became instrumental in starting girl’s and women’s hockey throughout Minnesota in those early years. Jane didn’t just play once a week, she became a rink rat and skated a couple of days a week (at 5:45 AM) with the U of M intramural Women’s Team, as well as other ‘open hockey’ sessions. She and her husband John, started the Blue J’s women’s hockey team in 1980, and the team is still active today with team’s in both the A and B division of W.H.A.M (Women’s Hockey Association of Minnesota). The highly successful Blue J’s over the years have won 11 National Senior Women’s Titles. In 1997 She started a scholarship, given to 2 high school senior girls hockey players. It is called the The Jane Ring/Sue Ring-Jarvi Girl’s/Women’s Scholarship. The MGHCA currently helps promote those scholarships with an application available on our web site. In 1999 she was a Special Merit award winner, given by the National Girl’s & Women in Sports Group! In 2003 she received the ‘Joe Burke Award’ at the NCAA Hockey Coaches Convention in Naples Florida, for her outstanding support and dedication to girl’s and women’s hockey. Other recipients of that honor include Jane’s daughter Sue, MGHCA’s Charlie Stryker, and the builders of Ridder Arena, Bob and Kathleen Ridder. Jane has sometimes been called Minnesota’s “old lady of hockey”, but perhaps Grandmother of the great sport would be more fitting! When she turned 80, she celebrated by renting ice time to play hockey. Jane and her husband John live in St Paul. They have a daughter Sue, and a son Steve, along with grandsons Ross Ring-Jarvi, and Mike Ring. Welcome Jane, to our first group of Hall of Fame members.