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Washington Wild Email Newsletter:
September 5, 2016

WASHINGTON WILD NEWS

Practices Start for the 2016-2017 Season!

Practices for the Washington Wild 2016 – 2017 season start this week!
 
Look online for each team’s practice and event schedule. Go to the

Welcome Harvard Grad, Olympian, and NY Riveter Michelle Picard to the Honorary Board

WWFHA proudly announces Michelle Picard as the newest WWFHA Honorary Board member. A Harvard Alumna and US Women’s Ice Hockey Olympian, Michelle current plays with the NY Riveter women’s professional hockey team, which plays in the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL).  The NY Riveters are the ‘Big Sister’ team to the Washington Wild.
 
Michelle plans to visit the Washington Wild during the coming season around her game and practice schedule. More about Michelle in coming communications. Stay tuned!
 

Welcome Genevieve Masson, Pro-Staff in Sports Nutrition

WWFHA welcomes Genevieve Masson to our Pro-Staff as a Sports Nutritionist.  Team managers will set up times for Gen to talk with players and parents.
 
After receiving her Bachelors diploma in nutrition, Gen obtained her MSc in nutrition from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. She works as a sports dietitian with recreational to elite athletes, counseling individuals, leading nutrition education groups and managing foodservice for sport competitions. She has performed nutrition counselling with athletes competing at World Championships and currently continues her studies through the Sports Nutrition Diploma program from the International Olympic Committee.
 
Gen will be talking to the teams about:

• Fuelling before, during and after a game/training
• Facilitating recovery
• Travelling for games and tournaments
• Food planning for busy schedules
• Specific needs depending on individuals’ conditions

Girls' Try Hockey for Free

Please help spread the news - send an email, 'share' a social media post, or call someone up and tell them about the September Girls' Try Hockey for Free event!
 
We need student coaches and adult volunteers to help on and off the ice. Please contact

Be Sure to Pay for Stick and Puck

NOTICE:
Whether you attend stick and puck session for a private lesson or just for yourself, you MUST pay admission fees to Highland. If you are receiving a lesson, the fee you pay your coach does NOT cover the rink’s admission fee.

Please be sure to pay to maintain your and WWFHA’s good reputation.
 

Game Socks and Team Bags

Home and Away game socks will be handed out at practice. If you ordered a hockey bag, travel bag or backpack, they will also be delivered at practice. Practice jerseys for each player will be handed out in the next 1-2 weeks.
 
Team track suits and shells arrive in 1-2 weeks and will be delivered at practice. NIKE apparel ships to your home address within the next couple of weeks.
 

Washington Wild Scoreboard Donation

Thanks to the kind donations from several Microsoft employees, WWFHA purchased a scoreboard for the small Highland rink for both 10U and 8U games. The scoreboard will be installed in late September, just in time for league games.
 
Thank you for your continued support of WWFHA and the Washington Wild student-athletes!

Register for Beginner Hockey!

Register now for Washington Wild Beginners Hockey 1 and Hockey 2 classes.

Each session lasts twelve weeks from September 18 through December 18 on Sundays, minus two holiday weekends. Hockey 1 runs from 10:15am – 11:15am and Hockey 2 runs from 11:30am – 12:30pm
 
Want to help on or off the ice? We need student coaches and adults, too! Contact Daniel Brown, Beginners’ Manager, to help full-time or part time at

Shoot and Score Club

The Washington Wild Summer Shoot and Score Competition has closed!

Submit all summer challenge logs to

The Experts’ Edge

We share this article as part of our effort to continuously educate our student-athletes on the collegiate hockey process.

The Best Subject Line Tips to Email Coaches
by Nicolae Popescu

Emailing college coaches can be an intimidating process for student-athletes. It’s necessary to understand the importance of initializing an active and transparent communication relationship to accelerate your recruiting process. The key is for student-athletes to take initiative, show responsibility and not let their parents send emails on their behalf.
 
I can’t stress enough how college coaches love to hear from the players directly and establish a relationship with them. The players are the ones going to college and playing for that coach, not their parents.
 
I’ve often heard players saying that they have contacted the college coaches but they never heard back. I asked them to tell me exactly how they approached the college coaches. I needed to know how they started the communication process, so I had an idea of where to start helping them. Most of these players sent emails without putting in the time necessary to make a great impression and show that they were truly prepared.
 
Student-athletes need to research and plan their strategy on how they will contact the college coaches. Most coaches receive 30 to 200 emails daily depending on the sport and program. So how do you make college coaches read your email? Well, you need a professional subject line so they will actually open your email, read about you, become curious and look at your resume.
 
What Subject Line Should I Not Use
 
Generic email just does not get opened anymore. Players need to understand that time is important for college coaches. If they see nothing interesting or catchy, you are unlikely to be noticed. Thus, a player’s preparation could make the difference. Don’t use subject lines like…
 

Ask WWFHA

How Can I be a Better Sports Parent?
“Stop the clock! He’s not stopping the clock! Ref, check the clock!”

The woman’s shrill and increasingly intense yells from her perch on the bleachers cut through the sounds of the bouncing basketball, squeaking sneakers, fans’ cheers and general chatter. I turned my head to look for the voice’s owner. I recognized her right away as a parent from a team my daughter Lily’s team had faced the previous day. Now, their game was in its final minutes before ours was scheduled to begin.

“There should be 10 more seconds! Ten more seconds on the clock!” She screeched again, pointing to the man and his young daughter at the score table and clutching the pen and paper I could only assume was her own running tally of points and fouls, in case the official game book was wrong.

In our game the day before, I’d been the volunteer charged with keeping the clock, and though I’d missed most of her comments from my seat on the other side of the gym, reports filtered in from other parents about how obnoxious she’d been. Apparently, she’d argued almost every call, commented on our individual players’ performances, even mocked our team name by changing “Flames” to “Flakes.” At one point, she’d screamed at me because I’d forgotten to put up an extra point on the scoreboard for a foul shot. As I struggled to reset the numbers (because those clocks can have the appearance of the telemetry equipment at NASA’s mission control), she continued to harp on the mistake.

Now, the tempers our parents had kept in check the day before flared, and an exchange of angry words erupted….

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