The Whitecaps vs. Team USA are playing Saturday Januray 17th at Aldrich Arena at 3 PM the game will be a great backdrop to Celebrate the Game of Girls Hockey. The Whitecaps do fundraisers and training all year for Youth and HS - this is the one fundraiser game fro their players.
Hopefully your Association recieved information from Lynn Olson and Minnesota Hockey.
The background on this event was twofold:
1) Bill Schafhauser the coach of Hill Murray challenged the girsl team to put this together to support Caesare Stimson the asst coach at Hill Murray who plays for the Whitecaps and players took it on as a fundraiser to help offset the $1100 the Whitecaps each pay to play – Hill Murray girls donated the ice through fundraising efforts and the volunteers are players and parents from Hill Murray. Attendees are asked to donate a $5 tax deductible contribution to the Whitecaps.
2) The group came up with the idea of doing a Hockey Expo to help share information within Girls Hockey and set up a day that HS teams could be with their youth teams and HS and Girls Teams could bring potential future players for a day of fun. This came out of a program “Strive for 25” in Woodbury last fall where they shot to add 25 new girls and achieved 50.
The goal is to fill Aldrich to capacity with 3400 fans that is the goal in spite of lots of girls tournaments, HS games and a Gopher home game at the same time.
1) Hill Murray donated 2 hours of ice, announcer and all volunteers including Kate Smith 9 year old WBL player for Anthem.
2) We have the following people coming to the Expo
Total Female Hockey - Kim McCullough from Toronto
CODP -
OS -
Hill Murray Summer Program - Bill Schafhauser
FHIT & Herb Brooks Foundation - Stacy Anderson, Bill Weller
Total Hockey Hudson - Dean Talafous
Spice on Ice - Colleen Gardner
Competition Programs
USA Hockey - Christy Jeffries
MN Hockey - Phase Program & NDP
Two Nations Female Hockey League/Upper Midwest Elite Girls High School League
Showcase Hockey - Eric Knutsen
Super Rink - Darin Thompson
Skating Training
ProEdge - Diane Ness
Karns Dynamic Skating - Karns
Other
Elite Wave/Eniva table - Bob McEnaney
Crystal Pins - Tori Miller, Kathy McKenzie
Recruiting Videos - Greg Doyle
Shut Out Cancer - Jess Havel - GRG
RV Girl Scouts - Michelle
Letterman Sports - TBD
3) Invited 76 MN HS teams, 12 WI HS teams, 38 Asssociations and 45,000 Girls Scouts.
Celebrating Hockey Day in Minnesota - January 17!
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