We are proud to announce Kids Holiday Card Coloring Contest and 12 Days of Giving campaign. We are looking for our community to design this year’s holiday card that will be used to send out in the RoughRiders annual mailing. Also, we are continuing our efforts to assist the community with the 12 Days of Giving.
Holiday Card Contest Sponsored by Culvers
Submit your holiday card design with a RoughRiders theme by November 30 to Tammy Carlson.
Every kid that submits an entry will receive a free single scoop of fresh frozen custard from participating Culvers. The top 10 chosen will receieve a RoughRiders Culvers jersey and a free kids meal.
Grand Prize: Cedar Rapids RoughRiders will showcase and use the holiday card design for their holiday mailing AND a free custard for a year (1 pint of custard each month over 12 months).
12 Days of Giving “Formerly Teddy Bear Toss” Presented by Modern Companies
This year RRHC, Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, Cedar Rapids RoughRiders Booster Club, and Geico Cares partner together to bring 12 Days of Giving presented by Modern Companies. All people who donate will be entered into a 12 day long raffle contest filled with $25 gift certificates to local companies. There will be at least 2 winners announced per day during the 12 Days of Giving presented by Modern Companies.
WHAT TO DONATE: new and unopened toys, stuffed animals, hats, socks, gloves, coats, blankets, etc. All goods will be donated to local non-profits following event.
WHEN and WHERE TO DROP OFF:
Union Station Extension Parking Lot 1724 16th Ave SW, Cedar Rapids, IA
December 5th: 10:00am – 1:00pm with special guests Mr. & Mrs. Claus along with Ricochet. December 10th: 4:00pm-6:30pm
Today, Iowa Governor Reynolds, signed a proclamation putting a temporary pause to all youth sports through December 10, 2020. This extends the RRHC voluntary pause from December 1 through the 10th. RRHC has been planning for this potential shut down for several weeks already as it has been a trend across the country. All players, if they haven’t already, will be receiving at home workouts that include plyometrics and shooting. Furthermore, RRHC as of today has started the 5,000 and 10,000 puck touch challenges:
This temporary pause does not give our players a vacation from their responsibility to their teammates to get better each and every day. Even more so than ever, our players now have the opportunity to demonstrate their true desire as individuals to get better on their own. To demonstrate that they are RoughRiders! I challenge every player in the club to complete all the training and puck touches challenge! We want to see 100% participation. That is our goal, and that should be your goal as a player. Be the solution and not the excuse.
We are proud to announce that RRHC on November 16, 2020 will start the 10,000 touches, and 5,000 shot challenge lasting through December 31, 2020. Players must complete one or both of the challenges and have the sheet returned to Executive Director, Dustin Timm via email on the 31st of December. In conjunction, all youth teams will be receiving from their head coach a workout and shooting plan during the next 2.5 weeks of the pause.
November 13, 2020 For Immediate Release: RoughRiders Hockey Club Pause Hockey Operations
Hello RoughRiders Family,
Tonight, the Executive Board of Directors met to discuss the current state of COVID-19 community spread. Iowa is seeing its largest number of positive cases and hospitalizations throughout the state. Cedar Rapids is leading the nation in new COVID cases. This has caused many school districts to move to virtual schooling for the next several weeks in response. In the past 96 hours, RRHC has also seen 15% of the club move into quarantine because of exposure cases, and several positives within the families of players and players themselves. It is important to note that we have had no known outbreaks or direct exposures because of our stringent protocols within the club. We have protected our players, families, and staff as well as we can with these protocols, contact tracing, and implementation of masks at practices. With that said, it is the feeling of the Executive Board that by continuing operations at this time it will be putting players’, families’, and staffs’ health in harm’s way despite our many efforts to mitigate COVID-19 exposure. The community spread, and the exposure rate of our families has come to a threshold.
The Executive Board voted unanimously to pause all (8U, 10U, 12U, 14U and High School) hockey operations starting November 14, 2020 at 12:01am through November 30, 2020 11:59pm. We then anticipate we will be able to start practices after that if the situation has improved. Following the restart of practices, youth games will be allowed to commence after the weekend of December 6, 2020. This is a dynamic situation and if this wave of cases rectifies sooner these dates will be re-explored.
We are not alone in this. Other associations within Midwest Amateur Hockey have also similarly announced a temporary pause over the next two to three weeks as their communities grapple with the significant increase in community spread.
Over the next few days, our Director will be adding in daily COVID-19 questionnaires events into TeamSnap. We would like to have our families continue to enter their data semi-daily as this will provide more information to our COVID-19 management team. This information would be extremely helpful in getting us back on the ice as soon as possible. By having this information and knowing how our families are doing we can get a sense of whether things are improving or not. Please be on the lookout for that update.
All coaching staffs will be providing at-home workouts including off-ice training and shooting, and food and nutrition journals, and goal sheets to ensure our players are still making progress to achieve their individual goals within the game of hockey.
We will be extending the youth season through the end of March and possibly the first weekend of April to potentially include a home tournament in Cedar Rapids or Coralville. More information and registration coming soon. No decisions on refund and policies where decided upon as this is an evolving and ever-changing situation. All financials will be determined at the end of the season once we have a clearer picture of what is and not affected.
As always, our goal, even more so through this pandemic, is to make decisions that are to the benefit, health, and safety of all players, families, and staff and we will not waiver from what is right for you, a supporter of RRHC.
