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Question 5: Within your present remit in British Hockey, what support and guidance do you provide for Junior Development?
We have just united the junior hockey in Northern Ireland under the Belfast Giants and now have the Junior Giants Development Programme. - Todd
Kelman, Belfast Giants.
Engage with Governing Body re Generation 2014 futures camp run by BOA. Access to Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme, BOA passports. - Mike Hay, British Olympic Association - Olympic Performance Manager.
I have been consistently involved in junior development since I arrived in the UK in 1996. - Brent Pope, Cardiff Devils.
None due to duties with my team in Geneva. - Chris
McCsorely.
I attend the end-of-seasons Junior Tournaments, either the Championship finals at Sheffield or the Inter-Conference Finals at Hull.
Am in contact with Paul Bignell (U-20) and Ian Turner (U-18) GB Managers for information when it comes round to publishing the GBSC magazine. Happy to publish anything she wants about the team. - Andy Smith,
Fifth Line.
I and my club totally support junior hockey in Coventry and have always done so with me having numerous coaching meetings and the Blaze professionals being available to assist in on ice activities, we have also started an ENL team so that junior players have a stepping stone to senior hockey then hopefully onto the Blaze senior team. - Paul Thomson, Coventry Blaze & GB Head Coach.
The Flames support the Guildford Junior programme and offer a link from the junior to senior level. However, the junior programme is run as a separate entity by dedicated volunteers and it is their input that makes it such a success. - Kirk Humphreys, Guildford Flames.
Sponsor the MVP of the annual junior tournament in Hull. - Stewart Roberts, Ice Hockey Annual.
In my own role I have little involvement with the Sheffield Junior Development system. We offer all the support we can as a club. We support the junior set up in Sheffield and congratulate them on the amazing job they have done to date. We are lucky in Sheffield that we have the twin pad at Ice Sheffield, Ice sports are lucky to have the ice we have in Sheffield. I remember the time in Solihull, kids cant get better with just an hour or so a week. - Dave Simms, Sheffield Steelers.
As ENIHL team manager, much of my work is involved with the logistics of game-day, travel, player registration & welfare etc. At Kingston there is a firm commitment towards using this level for development of young players. - Clinton
Cooper, Kingston Jets.
We work closely with our junior program and have an excellent track record of using young players and developing them into Senior pros. - Jon Kynaston, Peterborough Phantoms.
I am heavily involved with the Junior programme at Slough. We aim to make Slough one of the top places for kids to play. In May, we organised a free hockey school for the kids. Tony Hand came down to coach with myself. We have also brought the Laura Stamm Powerskating school to Slough. In the future we will have further hockey schools. - Steve Moria, Slough Jets.
I am involved with the National Ice Centre’s annual Junior Ice Hockey Development Camp as both an on-ice coach and video analyst. - Simon Hopkins, University Hockey.
Membership was always quite good in this sector and also at Recreational level. With more resources and some assistance the IHPA could have developed more services to all sectors of the players in the sport and to Officials who also joined in some numbers. - Jo Collins, Ice Hockey Players Association.
I work with the coaches of the youth programs in Edinburgh and try to give them the best possible advice I can. In addition, I try to give the players something to work towards, that being the Elite League. - Doug Christiansen, Edinburgh Capitals.