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posted 05/05/2013 Are you interested in coaching a Tier III KNIGHT Team in the 2013-14 Season?
FAHA is currently recruiting for Head Coaches and Assistants in the following Divisions:
Squirt (10U)
Peewee (12U)
Bantam (14U)
Midget (16 or 18U)
Applications for Tier III coaches will be accepted now through June 16
(see "online forms" link on left hand side of the FAHA home page)
Interviews will be performed after the application period closes
Coaches interested in a Tier IV KNIGHT Team may submit applications
through August 25
If you have any questions please contact Audra Brase (
)
| | | Fall Assessments & Tier III Tryouts by
posted 05/02/2013 Mark Your Calendars!
FAHA Assessments for the 2013-14 Season will be
August 24 & 25 at the Big Dipper Ice Arena
Tier III Tryouts will be August 27 - 29
Specific times for each age group will be announced at a later date
Practices will begin September 28 (Tier III) & October 7 (Tier IV)
If you are interested in coaching or volunteering in the upcoming season
please contact Audra Brase (
)
| | | posted 03/28/2013 Now Hiring!
FAHA Ice Scheduler
For more information contact Anna Culley at
| | | posted 03/27/2013 Spring League Weekly Schedule
All games are at the Dipper
| Date |
Day |
Start |
End |
Team |
| 5/2/13 |
Thu |
5:30 PM |
6:30 PM |
Spring League Mites |
| 5/2/13 |
Thu |
6:45 PM |
7:45 PM |
Spring League Squirts |
| 5/4/13 |
Sat |
10:45 AM |
11:45 AM |
Spring League Mites |
| 5/4/13 |
Sat |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Spring League Squirts |
| 5/4/13 |
Sat |
1:15 PM |
2:15 PM |
Spring League Pee Wees |
| 5/4/13 |
Sat |
2:30 PM |
3:30 PM |
Spring League BTM/MDG |
| 5/7/13 |
Tue |
6:45 PM |
7:45 PM |
Spring League Pee Wees |
| 5/7/13 |
Tue |
8:00 PM |
9:00 PM |
Spring League BTM/MDG |
| 5/9/13 |
Thu |
5:30 PM |
6:30 PM |
Spring League Mites |
| 5/9/13 |
Thu |
6:45 PM |
7:45 PM |
Spring League Squirts |
| 5/11/13 |
Sat |
10:45 AM |
11:45 AM |
Spring League Mites |
| 5/11/13 |
Sat |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Spring League Squirts |
| 5/11/13 |
Sat |
1:15 PM |
2:15 PM |
Spring League Pee Wees |
| 5/11/13 |
Sat |
2:30 PM |
3:30 PM |
Spring League BTM/MDG |
| 5/14/13 |
Tue |
6:45 PM |
7:45 PM |
Spring League Pee Wees |
| 5/14/13 |
Tue |
8:00 PM |
9:00 PM |
Spring League BTM/MDG |
| 5/16/13 |
Thu |
5:30 PM |
6:30 PM |
Spring League Mites |
| 5/16/13 |
Thu |
6:45 PM |
7:45 PM |
Spring League Squirts |
| *5/18/13 |
Sat |
*8:15 AM |
9:15 AM |
Spring League Mites |
| *5/18/13 |
Sat |
*9:30 AM |
10:30 AM |
Spring League Squirts |
| *5/18/13 |
Sat |
*10:45 AM |
11:45 AM |
Spring League Pee Wees |
| *5/18/13 |
Sat |
*12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Spring League BTM/MDG |
| 5/21/13 |
Tue |
6:45 PM |
7:45 PM |
Spring League Pee Wees |
| 5/21/13 |
Tue |
8:00 PM |
9:00 PM |
Spring League BTM/MDG |
| 5/23/13 |
Thu |
5:30 PM |
6:30 PM |
Spring League Mites |
| 5/23/13 |
Thu |
6:45 PM |
7:45 PM |
Spring League Squirts |
*Please Note Time Change*
Mites-Squirts-PeeWee-Bantam/Midgets
Mites: Thurs 5:30pm and Sat 10:45am*
Squirts: Thurs 6:45pm and Sat 12:00pm*
PeeWee: Tues 6:45pm and Sat 1:15pm*
Bant/Midgets: Tues 8:00pm and Sat 2:30pm*
(* See calendar at the Dipper for team match-ups)
 | | | posted 02/27/2013 ALCAN Hockey 2013 Summer Programs:
*** Visit http://www.alcansports.com/sports.html for further details.
__________________________________________________________________
Complete Defenseman Camp:
***Visit Completedefensemancamp.webs.com for further details.
__________________________________________________________________
Pro Ambitions Hockey Camps:
Battle Camp and Goalie Camp - Big Dipper 7/22-7/26
*** Visit www.proambitions.com/schedules_ak.htm for further details
__________________________________________________________________
Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association:
www.whitehorseminorhockey.ca.
____________________________________________________________________
Alaska Hockey Academy
- July 29th - August 2nd Squirt and Girls Camps
- July 8th - 12th PW/BTM Defensive/Offensive Camps
For more information or questions please contact Corbin Schmidt
or Lance West
alaska.edu
| | | | | | posted 10/23/2010
 The American Development Model (ADM) provides age-appropriate guidelines and curriculum to hockey associations across America to help more kids play, love and excel in hockey. Brought to you by USA Hockey, in partnership with the NHL.
ADM Overview
What’s wrong with where we’re going?
For starters, many athletes spend too much time traveling, competing and recovering from competition and not enough time preparing for it. Second, there is too heavy a focus on the result rather than the performance. This attitude leads to long-term failure, as coaches forgo the development of skills to focus on specific game tactics. And third, too many athletes are specializing too early on. An early focus on just one or two sports often leads to injuries, burnout and capping athletic potential.
Click to read more.
| | | posted 10/14/2010 Coaches need to check out the "Hey Coach" tab in the left menu for updated information and articles:
- Coaching Education Program Requirements for 2011-2012 Season and Beyond
from USA Hockey
- Ask the Coach with Lou Vairo
U.S. Olympic and veteran coach Lou Vairo answers your questions about coaching, team management and more in his installments of Ask the Coach
- Helping kids through tryouts - For Parents and Coaches
by Hal Tearse, Coach in Chief, Minnesota Hockey
- Cold Dry Hands; How Short is your Bench?
by Hal Tearse, Coach in Chief, Minnesota Hockey
- Leaving Home and Advancing Quickly
by Jack Blatherwick
United States Sports Academy
America's Sports University®
The Sport Digest - ISSN: 1558-6448
Dropping the Puck and Dropping Out
of the Sport of Hockey
Submitted by: Dave Cencer, Candidate for Master’s Degree, USSA
Dropout rates in youth sports continue to be a major issue, perhaps nowhere more so than in the sport of hockey. In my job as a collegiate hockey coach, I also work with youth players during summer camps, and I volunteer with local youth hockey organizations. Those of us who care about the sport of hockey have spent and will continue to spend a lot of time researching why so many kids drop out of youth hockey—even in hockey-crazed northern Michigan towns with deep histories in the sport.
We must try to identify the problems. One problem may be perception. Many people feel that the game changes as kids get older; we asked youth players, and they seemed to agree. When children first join hockey teams, the sport is relatively inexpensive for them to play. For instance, there is very little if any travel involved. In addition, there is no physical contact during games. Then, at age 11, players reach a level of play at which body checking becomes legal, a change that scares away some players and parents. With body checking comes a more protective, and also more expensive, set of gear; significant costs for ice time and travel furthermore begin to be part of playing the sport.
Hockey players’ issues, however, differ from those of the parents of hockey players. Costs associated with the sport may give parents pause, but direct questioning of young players seemed to suggest deeper problems. Some said there was too much pressure coming from their parents. An answer of that type seemed especially associated with players whose parents had never played hockey themselves. As soon as a parent began to live through his or her child, the pressure on that child became uncomfortable. In addition (and perhaps related to this first reason), young players too often reported feeling a total lack of fun in organized hockey. Some kids felt physically outmatched on the ice and complained they were ridiculed too often by teammates. Some felt their coaches or parents liked the game more than they did. Some believed organized play was just too much work.
Interestingly, while the dropout rate in youth hockey is increasing, hockey’s fan base to date has a good retention rate. The many kids who do not drop out fall in love with the game and become lifelong fans. Ice hockey—a regional or niche sport—needs kids like this in order to survive. Today’s players are tomorrow’s fans, and thus the more dropouts from youth hockey, the worse the sport’s future prospects, across the entire hockey community. Hockey is holding on, for now, but we must ask how the trend in the dropout rate can be reversed.
In general, I would suggest that the key is making youth hockey fun. Play should be taken back to its roots, to what it once was and still in fact is: a game. Try conducting a one-day “Hockey Is Fun Clinic,” inviting first-timers onto the ice to skate and have fun with collegiate and even professional players. Lunch, and even a jersey and stick, can be provided for each new player by clinic sponsors (retailers, food-service companies, etc.).
Hockey should be fun for youth who play the sport. Part of keeping it fun is keeping its requirements simpler, longer. The competitive progression in hockey, which sees players asked over time to commit more and more time, sweat, and money, needs to be slowed down. I believe that an introductory program should be followed by a developmental house recreation league, and only then by travel-level team participation. Introductory hockey programs should be low-cost, learn-to-play programs open to any child of any age, for up to two years’ participation. No travel should be involved. When a player has completed two years in the introductory program, there should be a developmental house recreation league available to him or her for further opportunity to play. Travel should be limited, if it is necessary at all, and ice costs should be carefully controlled. The developmental house recreation league provides those who prefer to be casual players with a place to continue playing hockey, developing skills but more importantly having fun. Players more deeply committed to the sport would follow such league play with participation on a recreational travel-level team, where competition becomes more serious and expenses rise.
Reducing costs for relatively casual play and keeping the emphasis on fun will create a better opportunity for young hockey players and their parents, not to mention coaches, to remain involved. In my talks with players and coaches, I have learned that more and more kids are experiencing burnout at earlier levels of competition. USA Hockey, the national governing body for the sport of ice hockey, has implemented parent education programs (which youth directors consider mandatory) in hopes of easing pressure on kids. An important fact needs to be impressed on families making the move from a developmental house recreation league to a more competitive travel-level team. It is that when the parent wants it more than the player, problems lie ahead. When the child decides he or she wants it, the parent’s support can then follow.
We must also be prudent about time devoted to playing the sport. When hockey takes over a player’s time to such an extent that normal social interaction—being a normal kid—becomes impossible, a burnout problem is not far away. With team time kept at a manageable level and hockey players encouraged to have other interests away from the rink, hockey should be able to remain available as an enjoyable hobby for each generation as it grows into adulthood.
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