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District 15 Annual Fall Meeting

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Sunday September 26, 2010 - 6:00pm

Wadena MN, Minnesota

District Directors Report - Spring 2010

 

DISTRICT DIRECTORS REPORT
APRIL 2010
DENNIS R. BUSHY
 
Minnesota Hockey held its spring meeting April 23-25 in Minneapolis.   I will attempt to bring you up to date on the decisions and discussions during this spring meeting.
 
Friday night the District Directors met as a whole to discuss various agenda items.   We talked about the moving the age change proposal, changing eligible date from July 1st to June 1st.   A decision was made to make no changes during the upcoming season. Mn Hockey will mail out surveys to all players with June birthdays asking parents if their player started school early because of the June birthday. Any player born in June will receive these surveys and we ask that you fill them out and mail them back. We then will gather the info received and discuss the age change during our fall and winter meetings. A decision will be made at that time for implementation during the 2011-2012 seasons.
 
There was a proposal to change penalties from the standard 2 minutes to 1:30. The thought was the length of penalties slows down development for players. I am for this proposal and others that keep the pucks out of the referees’ hands and on the players stick. The proposal will be sent to the officials for discussions and if approved, sent to USA Hockey requesting approval for a pilot program in Minnesota.
 
Hockey operations reported on the various Select groups and changes for this year. This year the Select 15 program extended the tryouts and practices from 4 hours to 12 hours. This is difficult for the outstate districts because of geographical distances. We found that Sundays worked best for District 15 and conducted all practices on those days. Coaches will report on how these changes went and decisions will be made for next year.
We have a new Coach in Chief for our district. Brian Heinrichs has resigned and Andrew Shriver will take his place. I would like to thank Brian for his help and thank Andrew for accepting this important position. Since Andy was our CEP director, I have replaced him with Derek Thompson.   Thank you Derek for accepting this position.
 
Tournaments were discussed and we made two changes. All State Tournaments will be a two day event, starting on Saturday and ending on Sunday. The other change is all Regional tourneys will be double elimination (no round robin play). The rotation of the teams involved may change and become more permanent instead of the way we have been moving around the past 3 years/
 
The Registrar reported that all online registration with USA Hockey will be mandatory for the 2010-2011 seasons. Hopefully, all our associations are doing this now. We registered 2551 players and 463 coaches last season.  
 
There are many brochures and information from the HEP program still available. Contact me if you need any info.
 
We elected a new president and he will take over in September. New president for Minnesota Hockey is Dave Marganeu.   Dennis Green our outgoing president did an outstanding job and will be missed.
 
I will have more info and handouts for you at our summer in Alexandria on May 19th.   See you there
 
Our district is doing a great job in all areas of hockey. Thank you to all the presidents of our associations and volunteers that make our sport what it is today. If there is anything I can do please get in touch. My cell number is 701 361 7984.
 
Have a great summer of fishing, golfing and other summer activities.
 
Dennis R. Bushy   District 15 Director

 

2010 District 15 Boys Advanced 15 Team

 

The following players will represent District 15 in the Advance 15 Select series conducted by Minnesota Hockey.

#2 Joe Nathe
#3 Gaven Bickford
#4 Jordan Staples
#7 Eric Barker
#11 Ben Moe
#12 John O’Connor
#15 Chris Phlkamp
#19 Lukas Majerle
#22 Casey Ward
#24 Jake Ellingson
#26 Connor Chambers
#27 Jake Ahlgren
#28 Aaron Herdt
#29 Tom Carey
#30 Grant Weiss
#31 Jed Rush
#34 Corey Resler
#35 Dylan Bartholomus
#44 Tom Schmidt
#48 Cory McManigle


Alternates:
#37 Cole Smith
#13 Kegan Couture
#1 Cody Brumbaugh

Next weeks schedules is as follows:
Saturday April 24 District 15 vs District IR 10:00am in TRF
Saturday April 24 District 15 vs District 16 3:00pm in TRF

Please be there 1 hour before game time


 

District 15 Advanced 13 & 14 Development Program

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In 2010 District 15 is launching a new Player Development Program for District 15 Boys and Girls born in 1996 and 1997. The District will select the top 60 players at each level to participate in and experience an Advanced Summer Development Camp similar to the Minnesota and USA Hockey Advanced Summer Camps for Advanced 15, 16, and 17’s. The focus of the program is to provide District 15 advanced level players and players who have the desire, drive, and motivation to become an advanced level player with the information, education, training, competition, inspiration, and motivation they will need to participate at an advanced level. For more information about the Camps please review the brochure and tryout registration form posted below. Brochures are also available at all District 15 Arenas. If you have any question about the camps you may contact Bryan Henrichs the District Coach in Chief at bhenrichs@breezypointresort.com.

Please Note that the District 15 Advanced 13 & 14 Camps are Sponsored and approved by District 15 and they are not part of the Minnesota Hockey Advanced Programs.

Advanced 15 Tryout Information

Advance 15 Tryout Information for Boys and Girls from District 15 born in 1995 is now availble. Please click on either the Boys or Girls Advanced 15 Menu Bars located on the let side of this page.

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