Coventry Phoenix is the name of Coventry's

Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

 only female ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 team. The team was established in 2003, and currently competes in Division One (North) of the British Women's Leagues

Women's Ice Hockey in Great Britain

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. They play out of the SkyDome Arena, in city centre Coventry, the same venue as the Coventry Blaze

Coventry Blaze

Coventry Blaze are an ice hockey team based in Coventry, England. They currently compete in the British Elite Ice Hockey League .-Club history:...

 men's professional ice hockey teams.

History

Phoenix finished 5th in the Division 1 North league in 2008, and were the only team to not lose to the ultimate league winners of the league Nottingham.

Coventry competed in a total of four tournaments, twice in Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

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, finishing 6th of 8 teams in 2004 and runner-up in 2005. In addition to this they have played twice outside of Great Britain

Great Britain

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, both times at a tournament in Tallinn

Tallinn

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, Estonia

Estonia

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hosted by the HC Dreamland Queens. In 2004 they finished 4th of 5 teams, and in 2005 finished 7th out of 8 teams.