Chesapeake Bay Lightning

The are a senior (amateur) women's hockey team that plays in the Mid-Atlantic Women's Hockey League. With over 60 women rostered, CBL is the largest women's team in the DC region. The team is divided into 4 rosters at 3 levels that includes the mid-Atlantic's only semi-pro women's hockey team. Two of the rosters compete in MAWHL's C & D Divisions and another plays at the D level in the EWCHL. The Lightning are based out of the Wheaton Ice Arena & the Gardens Ice House in Laurel, Maryland. The team was founded in 1993 and won a USA Hockey National Championship at the B level in 2001.