JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) — Joliet will soon have its first all-girls ice hockey team.

The registration is already filling up as the team is flipping the script one puck at a time.

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When the Jaguar Hockey Club first opened applications, they hoped they would get enough girls just to fill a team. That interest has now more than tripled.

The athletes are making snow and rewriting a historic narrative with pink skates and all.

“I want to be good enough that they start accepting girls into the NHL,” 10-year-old Jaguar Hockey Club player Penny Antos said.

Antos and 11-year-old Ellie Sorg will be joining the first all-girls hockey team in Joliet this year. They are living proof of a decades-long dream.

“When we lost my sister when she was 19, and hockey was her absolute favorite thing in the world, but that’s been 25 years ago, and girls hockey was not an option,” Jaguar Hockey Club president Lauren Walsh said.

Walsh said her sister never got the chance to be on a team.

“Even her senior pictures were taken in old Blackhawk gear and sticks and all that,” Walsh said.

Now, 25 years later, Walsh is carrying out her sister’s love by giving the young girls of Joliet a chance to compete.

“We were just hoping for 12 girls that were interested, and now we’re in the 40s, 50s,” Walsh said.

According to USA Hockey, over the past 15 seasons, girls hockey in the United States has seen a participation increase of 65%.

“The puck’s the same color, but when you have the girls in the locker room and stuff like that, it transcends on there’s a lot of smiles out there,” Jaguar Hockey director Greg Stornello said.

With the launch of the professional women’s hockey league in 2023, the girls can now take their dream into adulthood.

“You just see them and you’re like, ‘Hey, I want to be like them,'” Sorg said. “You have nothing to like worry about, because all it’s about is like, having fun.”

So even if you fall, they said you have to try, try again.

“You might get hurt a couple times, but just you gotta keep trying and never give up,” Antos said.

Tryouts for the all-girls team in Joliet will be August 15, with the first game in September.