Question: How many female hockey players were there in the United States in the year 2011?
About the article "Ice hockey", section "Modern women's ice hockey".

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In 2012 he joined Dallas Stars which he helped by winning the USA Hockey Sled Classic Division A Championship.
From 2011 till now he serves on the United States National Sled Hockey Team and was a winner of the 2013 USA Hockey Sled Cup.
In November 2011 he became a silver medal recipient at the IPC World Sledge Hockey Challenge and next year won gold at the same place, following by another silver in 2013.
In 2012 he was awarded with a gold medal by winning the International Paralympic Committee Ice Sledge Hockey World Championship and next year won a silver one at the same place.
Prior to sled hockey he was quoted saying:They asked me to come out and play sled hockey, and I was like, I don't come from a hockey state.
I'm from Oregon.
We don't play hockey there.
How many Hispanics do you see playing hockey? 
The United States women's national ice hockey team is controlled by USA Hockey.
The United States has been one of the most dominant women's hockey teams in international play – second only to Canada – having won gold or silver in every major tournament with the exception of the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they captured bronze.
The U.S. had 61,612 female players in 2011.
In 1998, the Women's Olympic Hockey Team was named the USOC Team of the Year. 
Women's ice hockey.
Modern women's ice hockey.
Ice hockey is one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world, with the number of participants increasing 350 percent in the last 10 years.
In 2011, Canada had 85,827 women players, United States had 65,609, Finland 4,760, Sweden 3,075 and Switzerland 1,172.
While there are not as many organized leagues for women as there are for men, there exist leagues of all levels, including the Canadian Women's Hockey League, Western Women's Hockey League, Mid-Atlantic Women's Hockey League, and various European leagues; as well as university teams, national and Olympic teams, and recreational teams.
By the end of 2013, the IIHF had held fifteen IIHF World Women's Championship tournaments.
The USHL welcomed the first female professional hockey player in 1969–70, when the Marquette Iron Rangers signed Karen Koch.
Women's ice hockey was added as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
The United States won the gold, Canada won the silver and Finland won the bronze medal.
The chief difference between women's and men's hockey is that body checking is not allowed in women's hockey.
After the 1990 Women's World Championship, body checking was eliminated in women's hockey.
In current IIHF women's competition, body checking is either a minor or major penalty, decided at the referee's discretion.
In addition, players in women's competition are required to wear protective full-face masks.
One woman, Manon Rhéaume, appeared as a goaltender for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning in pre-season games against the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins, and in 2003 Hayley Wickenheiser played with the Kirkkonummi Salamat in the Finnish men's Suomi-sarja league.
Several women have competed in North American minor leagues, including goaltenders Kelly Dyer, Erin Whitten, Manon Rhéaume, and defenceman Angela Ruggiero.
Greek Ice hockey Championship () is the only level of ice hockey in Greece.
It is operated under the jurisdiction of the Greek Ice Hockey Federation, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
There are currently registered 100 players, but it is unsure how many of them are active. 
  Laura Stamm was a power skating instructor in the 1970s and 1980s for several NHL teams, including the New York Rangers, New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings.
Lauren Apollo played for the University of New Hampshire Wildcats and was a member of the United States national team in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Cindy Curley played for the Providence Friars and was a member of several U.S. national teams in the early 1990s.
On Oct. 30, 1993, goaltender Erin Whitten made history by becoming the first woman to record a victory in a professional hockey game.
As a member of the East Coast Hockey League’s Toledo Storm, she posted a 6-5 win against the Dayton Bombers.
In 1994 she received the first-ever USA Hockey Women’s Hockey Player of the Year Award.
On March 7, 1996, she become the first women to appear in a professional hockey game in a position other than goaltender, when, as a member of the Colonial Hockey League’s Flint Generals, she played at forward for 18 seconds in a game against the Madison Monsters.
Sue Ring-Jarvi is considered the grandmother of girls' and women's hockey in Minnesota.
She was part of the movement that led Minnesota to become the first state to recognize girls' hockey as a varsity sport, in 1994.
Laura Halldorson was a coach for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, and played at Princeton with Patty Kazmaier.
In addition, she played with Cindy Curley and Lauren Apollo on the earliest U.S. National teams.
Five of the players she coached at Minnesota would later become Olympians themselves, including 2006 U.S. captain Krissy Wendell.
The late Patty Kazmaier played for the Princeton Tigers.
An award for the best player in women's college hockey is named in her honor.
On September 13, 2011, Buffalo native Lexi Peters became the first female ice hockey player to appear in an EA Sports NHL Hockey video game.
Her appearance came in EA Sports NHL 12 video game.
In previous experiences with EA Sports’ NHL titles, she spent hours with the custom team features in an attempt to recreate the Purple Eagles (an all-girls team Peters plays for).
The various titles player creation options did not include a female character build.
Peters asked her father why there were no female characters in past video games.
Her dad suggested that she write a letter to the company and inquire about it.
David Littman, the lead producer of the EA Sports NHL Game received permission from the NHL and EA's lawyers to include Lexi Peters in their EA Sports NHL 12 video game (released on September 13, 2011).
EA Sports informed Lexi that they were going to have her as the game's "default" female player that gamers would be able to customize.