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Washington Wild Email Newsletter:
May 5, 2017
WASHINGTON WILD NEWS
2017-18 Tryout & Evaluation Skate -- Registration OPEN!
Register for tryouts and evaluation skates for placement on Washington Wild teams for the 2017-2018 season!
Washington Wild tryouts for Rep 19U AA and 19UA, 14UAA and 12UAA teams are Saturday August 5 and Sunday August 6th. Rep AA teams practice each weekend throughout the month of August.
On Saturday August 26th WWFHA hosts the Evaluation Skate for league teams & league travel teams for the 12U/14U, 10U and 8U age groups. All players interested in playing for a Western Washington Female Hockey League (WWFHL) team and subsequent Travel Team should attend this evaluation skate.
Players will be placed on balanced teams for league play. Those interested in playing on a tiered Travel team arranged by skill level will also be evaluated. Travel teams play local exhibition games against boys’ teams, female teams, and tournaments.
Click here to register.
Highland Ice Arena Gets a Spring Spiff Up!
 Wild Midget Sportsmanship banner hangs in the large rink. Props to the 19U Rep A team! Go Wild!
Jamie Johnson paints around the windows on Highland’s small rink. Plus, stay tuned for new lights in each rink, new stick racks, and equipment boxes for all the new on-ice training tools. Go Wild!
Training Washington Wild Style
 Grace Miller mixes her off-season training up with some tire flipping! Send in your photo of your work-out to info@wwfha.com!
New Apparel Coming Soon!
 New and exciting Washington Wild apparel is coming soon!
Support WWFHA -- Shop at Fred Meyer
 Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to WWFHA at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards.
- Search for us by our name or by our non-profit number 84916 (or search for West Washington Female Hockey)
- Use your Rewards Card, when you shop.
- You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Rebates.
- If you do not have a Rewards Card, they are available at the Customer Service desk of any Fred Meyer store.
- For more information, please visit www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards
Shop and Support the Wild at Amazon Smile for Mother's Day!
For those of you who love the convenience of shopping online, shop AmazonSmile for Mother’s Day at https://smile.amazon.com/.
Amazon donates 0.5% of your purchase to the Washington Wild.
New WWFHA On- and Off-Ice Training Gear
 WWFHA is excited to announce new on- and off-ice training gear coming this spring!
WWFHA worked with Engineered Sports to identify key off-ice training equipment in order to semi-replicate what is done at their facility. This will allow Washington Wild players to train in similar ways prior to practice at Highland. Some of this equipment includes plyo-boxes, medicine balls, balance balls, mini-hurdles, resistance bands (short and long), jump ropes, ladders and more.
WWFHA has also purchased equipment that can be used on and off the ice for advanced stick handling training, including several passer pros, extreme danglers, speed chute, and 50 wide-body cones.
In preparation for the new girls’ league, WWFHL, more junior/mite nets have been acquired, as well as shooter tutors for all size nets for the support of ADM practices.
2017 Annual General Meeting - Mark Your Calendar
WWFHA invites all current members (all parents and guardians of 2016 - 2017 registered Wild players) to our Annual General Meeting.
Date/Location: May 20th at 4:00pm at Highland.
We will present a brief re-cap of this season, a summary of plans for the coming season, hold voting for board members, and host a question and answer session.
Weekly Wild Tuesday 3v3 Sessions:
All Age Groups & Drop-In - Always Open!
It is never too late to join the fun of 3v3 on Tuesday nights - all ages welcome!
Dates:
- April 25,
- May 2, May 9, May 16, May 23,
- June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27,
- July 11, July 18, July 25
Note: no sessions on May 30 or July 4
Location: Highland Ice Arena - Small Ice
Time/Ages:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm:
- 7 - 10 year old – Skills Session & 3v3 Scrimmages
- 7:45pm - 8:45pm:
- 11 - 14 year old; one end of the ice - 3v3 scrimmages
- 15 - 19 years old; other end of the ice - 3v3 scrimmages
Cost:
- Register and pay online for all dates - $168 for 12 sessions
- Register and pay online for specific session - $14 per session
- Register and pay at ice time - $20 rate for drop-in
Registration: Click here to register.
Spring/Summer Female Hockey League!
Come enjoy some friendly, local competition! This league will consist of three to five teams (roster spots may be shared), one ref per game, players age 14 through adult, skill level beginner to college players.
Day: Sundays
Dates: May 14 – August 13 (we skip Memorial Day weekend and July 4th weekend)
Time: 4:30pm or 9:30pm
Locations: Highland, Olympicview of Lynnwood.
Fee: $250-350. The first payment is $250. The amount of the final payment will be determined after the exact number of participants is present. If you want to play, or want more details, email lisa.a.mcneill@gmail.com.
All Hockey Elite Spring/Summer Camp
NOTE: All Hockey Academy, owned and operated by several top coaches from the area, is a separate entity from WWFHA. While WWFHA supports the program, All Hockey Academy is an independently owned and operated business that offers camps and tournament teams -- including a team attending the Beantown Classic and other tournaments.
All Hockey Academy offers programs for 7-10, 11-14, and 15 and over age groups for elite players and those who desire to reach the next level by the beginning of the 2017-18 season.
Each age group will train on the large ice at Highland with some of the best coaches in the area and engage in off-ice stick-handling and a separate off-ice conditioning session. Shaun Miller leads a team of excellent coaches for this camp May - July.
Coaches may select players to travel to age-specific tournaments through the camp tenure.
Cost: $980 for 11 sessions
Click here to learn more - New Website! - https://www.allhockeyseattle.com/
Expert Edge
 14U/16U/19U—Optimize your Offseason
How much offseason hockey should be played at 14U/16U?
As players progress through the ranks, they face more and more pressure to be inside an ice arena more often. At 14U/16U, players are looking at summer showcases and other offseason events, trying to decide what’s best for their futures.
Rick Bennett reminds players and their parents, however, that as an NCAA Division I college hockey coach, he’s far more interested in how a player performs in-season than off-season. In the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses world of hockey, there’s a lot of pressure to not miss summer opportunities, but coaches are far more focused on what’s happening with potential recruits on their fall/winter teams than summer showcase events.
“We always like to see players who are involved with their team that they’re playing for during the winter months,” said Bennett, who led Union to the 2014 NCAA championship. “We put more emphasis on that than we do on the summer recruiting, just for the fact of pride within their program. That’s how we look at it.”
Click here to find out about building the engine, embracing the break and playing other sports.
ASK WWFHA
Q. How do I ensure that my 10U hockey player continues to develop during the off-season?
A. For many serious adult hockey players, if they averaged out all of the time they spent on some type of ice during the early years of their hockey life, it would probably average out to an hour a day for 365 days a year. Having said that, 90 percent of that time was often in a free-play setting on a backyard rink, or on the local pond, the outdoor rink in their neighborhood, or public skating at the local indoor rink.
As a result, there is absolutely no issue with some spring or summer ice for younger players, as long as it looks nothing like their winter-season ice time.
Playing on an organized team and traveling around playing games or tournaments all the time with officials on the ice is not always the way to go. Instead, some type of unorganized open hockey or a cross-ice or half-ice 3v3 or 4v4 league is ideal, in complement to some other sport or athletic activity.
Above all, the off-season should be used to play other sports, meet other kids, experience other coaches and use different muscle groups to continue developing as an all-around athlete. It’s an important time to take a mental break from hockey, too. Passion is the most important ingredient in an athlete’s development, so making wise choices in terms of patience and burnout avoidance during the off-season is critical to reigniting that passion and putting your youngster in the best position to succeed in the fall.
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