News

Welcome to another year of Hockey, some very exciting news within our District.

Lisa Grabas has taken on the Coach Coordinator position for the District and will be in contact with all the associations very soon to set up clinic requirements.

We also welcome Dave Kaczowka as our District IP Lead, Dave will be contacting the coaches from the associations to get a plan in place to help assist with the IP program. Many have already reached out to him, he is a valuable resourse for our associations!!

The tiering has been set and is as follows:

Atom tiering: Elk Valley Oct 20-22/17

PeeWee tiering: Cranbrook Oct 13-15/17

Bantam (Preseason tournament) Creston Oct 13-15/17

Midgets (Preseason tournament) Glacier Oct 20-22/17

The League Scheduling meeting will take place on Sun Oct 29. 2017 at College of the Rockies Cafeteria at 12pm.

Looking forward to an awesome Season!!!!

There has been some confusion with the application process for the Midget and Bantam Zone teams. A link was provided however the applications didn't go through at the BC Hockey office so we are asking anyone who had applied for a team position to please send a hard copy of your cover letter and resume to ekmha@shaw.ca 

Also if you know of anyone who is qualified please have them send an email to the above address for further information, all coaches must be minimum Dev 1 certified along with RIS, CAAT and have a criminal record check done.

Registration is now open for the Evaluation Camp(s) (Tryouts) in Kimberley on August 18-20, 2017.

Please register here if you have any difficulty with this link you can go to the BC Hockey website under Zone teams and complete the registration :)

The schedule for tryouts will be available shortly!!!

The District is very excited to announce that it has been announced EK will be part of the pilot Zone Team project in both Bantam and Midget for the 2017/18 season. To read the full story click here

The application process for Coaches and team staff is now available click here, we will also have the link available to register to attend the identification camp (tryouts) once it has been made available from BC Hockey.

For all players wishing to attend the identification camp in August please ensure you have registered with your home association and have the EK Acknowledgement form filled out to bring with you (you can find a copy of this form under Documents)

Congratulations to all the teams who participated in the EK League Banners!!

The winners of the Banners are : Atom A - Kimberley

                                             Atom B - Creston Valley

                                              Atom C - Kimberley

                                             PeeWee A - Kimberley

                                             PeeWee B - Cranbrook

                                             Peewee C - Elk Valley

                                             Bantam A - Windermere Valley

                                             Midget A - Elk Valley

Thank you everyone for a great season of hockey!!!

Good luck to the teams attending Championships this year; Midget T3 - Cranbrook, Midget T4 - Windermere Valley and Creston (had a wild card team), Bantam T2 - Cranbrook, Bantam T3 - Cranbrook (hosting), PeeWee T3 - Cranbrook and PeeWee T4 - Kimberley and Fernie (hosting)

Happy New Year everyone!!! 

A reminder to all associations that the next regular meeting is on Monday Dec 5, 2016 at the Days Inn Cranbrook at 7pm we will be having a presentation by Randy Henderson BC Hockey President and Barry Petrachenko BC Hockey CEO.

The presentation will include the following topics: Recruitment and Retention, Initiation Program Rollout, Coach Development, Female Hockey Development, Long Term Athlete Development, Zone Team Concept, Regional Support and Administration, Hockey Canada Player Development Model Survey.

We ask that anyone within the association that deals with any of these topics to please plan on attending for a very informative session.

Reminder to all teams that the Scores for the League Games are to be emailed to ekmha@shaw.ca by the home team following the game, please include the division as well 

Thank you everyone in advance!!