Hello everyone, thank you for your interest in the U11 Select Team. My name is Derek Penner and I have the privilege of being named Head Coach of the Team. I am excited about this opportunity to coach this team. I want to pass on some information before we get going.
There will a fee payable to Ayr Minor Hockey similar to rep team fee. I have heard this could be around $200 a player (not confirmed). This fee will cover the extra ice time we will be given for practices and home exhibition games. There will also be team fees to cover the two tournaments I plan to enter. The two tournaments I plan to enter are the Ayr Silver Stick and Belle River in early April. With 3 LL teams in the U11 division I feel that these 2 tournaments will be easy enough to work around everyone's schedules. When we have the parent meeting we will get into more details about these tournaments.
As for the tryout itself, I am going to be using the LL evaluations from a few weeks ago as well. I am not just looking at talent, but how you use the talent. I am looking for players that work hard, listen, good teammates and set good examples for other players. Everything starts with attitude , everyone needs to have a good one. On Sunday be prepared to work hard and show me you are coachable. Its not the on ice that counts as well, if you are not behaving in the dressing room I will take that into consideration when making my selections, everyone is to treat each player with proper respect. There will still lots of time where we do have some fun though.
Going forward any communication for this team will done through this email address
[email protected]
Thank you and I will see everyone at the rink.
Derek