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Washington Wild Email Newsletter:
September 27, 2016
WASHINGTON WILD NEWS
Game Schedules
 Balancing / tiering game schedules are published for PCAHA Wild teams! See your team page or contact your team manager for details.
MHL Wild teams’ schedules are expected to come out on Wednesday September 28th. Your team manager will be in touch.
MHL eams expect to play this weekend, either Saturday or Sunday, October 1st or 2nd.
WASHINGTON WILD TEAM PAGES
 Get all team related information from team pages: news, schedules, player profiles, team and player stats, photos, videos, and more. Access your team page via the web page or through SportNgin. You can also connect to your team page through the SportNgin app (Android and IPhone).
Download the SportNgin app in your preferred app store. Then, search for the team by the team ID code listed below.
19U Rep Tier 2/AA – 618817
19U Rep Tier 3/A – 618819
14U Rep Tier 2/AA – 900004
12U Rep Tier 2/AA – 900005
12U/14U team – 618820
10U team – 1108864
8U team – 1108892
NOTE: If you download the calendar from the website, be sure to refresh it from time-to-time to guarantee updates.
Support our Big Sister Team, the NY Riveters
 Purchase a NY Riveters replica jersey with the name and number of your favorite player!
Check out Michelle Picard's jersey, as part of the proceeds go to each player.
Click here to see the NY Riveter the jersey options.
Team Stores Open Next Week
The team stores open again next week! Shop for the season and early for the holidays! This will be the final order session for the season.
STORE #1: team track suits, shells, hockey bags, and travel bags.
 
Plus, check out the NEW team jump suits and socks by Strideline! Great for travel, pre-ice warm-ups, and keeping warm at night!
STORE #2: team NIKE apparel
Keep an eye on the website for the store opening!
Free Skate for Presidents’ Day
Highland ice Arena opens its doors for free skating admission on Veteran’s Day, November 11th from 9:30am – 5:30pm.
Come join the fun!
Jamboree Fun!
A great group of players participated in the Girls’ Hockey Wild Jamboree 5 – 10 year olds on September 25th! Thanks to the Marshall family for providing muffins for all players; everyone had great fun. We will schedule more jamborees as soon as the MHL schedule comes out.
Beyond the Wild
 Anisa Ryan grew up in McCall, ID, and has recently moved to Redmond, WA to finish her final year of high school and to play for the Washington Wild 19U Rep team.
Being raised in McCall for nearly 12 years, she noticed the social and academic struggles of foster care students in her school. These kids are not only moving homes very frequently, but also schools.
Anisa attended a semester at the Alzar School, which offers academic semesters for motivated high school sophomores and juniors to immerse students in a rigorous, challenging educational setting that emphasizes leadership training with the hopes to equip students with the background knowledge and skills to be effective leaders who will change the world.
Anisa came back to her home community of McCall with hopes that she could create a program to help these foster students with their personal and academic lives.
Click here to read more and view a video about how Anisa created the Connecting Hearts: A Culminating Leadership Project.
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Beyond the Wild features players' talents beyond the ice hockey rink. We seek other players to feature, and we request our modest members to share their talents on a regular basis. Please submit your daughter's extracurricular activities, talents, volunteerism, passions and hobbies to info@wwfha.com
The Experts’ Edge
 When Other Parents—Not Coaches—Are the Problem
-- by Michael Rand, Special to USA Hockey
When it comes to kids getting burned out on hockey, Dionne Koller has a different twist on an all-too-familiar story.
Her 14-year-old son recently skated away from the sport, declaring, “I’m not having fun anymore” and that hockey had become a “job.”
The problem, though, wasn’t coaches. It wasn’t other players. And it wasn’t his own parents.
Instead, it was the collective culture created by aggressive parents of other players that led him to decide a sport he had played since mites was no longer for him.
Koller, who didn’t want her son’s name used in case he decides someday to return to hockey, nevertheless lays out a cautionary tale as an example of another way in which overbearing adults can infringe on the happiness of kids playing a game.
What Happened?
Click here to read the full article.
Ask WWFHA
 How do I Choose Equipment for my New Player?
For a parent of a new hockey player, entry into the sport can be an intimidating experience. And that feeling can start long before the first goal or even first skate blade hits the ice.
That’s because outfitting your youngster – 6U, 8U, whatever age they might be starting – requires equipment that’s specific to hockey. A basketball parent buys a pair of shoes and a ball, while a hockey parent is looking for head-to-toe gear.
Fortunately, Scott Aldrich – USA Hockey’s manager of hockey operations and longtime equipment man – provides some tips and demystifies the process.
Click here to read the rest of Michael Rand’s (special to USA Hockey) answer.
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