Born in the USA
Growing Number of Female Coaches for NIHL Girls Teams
Host an IIHF World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend
Yes, It's a Girl Hockey Player!
Rest & Recovery: The Most Overlooked Area of Athletics and Sports Performance
Don't Lose a $140K Scholarship for a 140-Character Tweet
Coaching Advice for Dealing with Social Media
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Volume 2 Issue 2
September 6, 2017
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BORN IN THE USA
By Tony & Cammi Granato
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Day One
is a
Players' Tribune series where athletes sit down with the people who've been in their life since the beginning, and discuss their journey. This installment features siblings Tony and Cammi Granato. Tony played in the NHL for 13 seasons with the Rangers, Kings and Sharks. Cammi won the gold medal with the U.S. Women's Hockey Team at the '98 Winter Olympics, and a silver medal in 2002. She's a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Tony:
I clearly remember this one moment: I was at a Chicago Blackhawks game with my father at the Madhouse on Madison. I was maybe five years old. This was 1970. And I was leafing through the gameday program when I got to the Blackhawks roster. It had the birthplaces listed for all the players. I turned to my dad in complete disbelief. "All these guys are from Canada?" I said. I was so mad. I didn't understand why all the players weren't from Chicago. In my mind, Stan Mikita was just a guy from my town. I went down the list and it was Canada, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Canada. Nobody was born in the USA. So I told my father, "Well, I'm going to be the first one."
Cammi:
I'm seven years younger than Tony. So I was born the year after he made that comment. Being the youngest at the time, I was like the guinea pig for him and my other two brothers, Robby and Donny. Some of my earliest memories are playing "knee hockey" in the basement with them. It was no-holds-barred. The unspoken rule that my brothers came up with was that if I wanted to play, I wasn't allowed to run upstairs to tell mom if I got hurt.
FULL ARTICLE>>
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ILLINOIS GIRLS' HOCKEY NEWS
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GROWING NUMBER OF FEMALE COACHES FOR NIHL GIRLS' TEAMS
By Ruben Medina, NIHL Girls' Division Director ~ Looking back over the last 6 years, the number of female coaches on the Northern Illinois Hockey League's Girls teams is climbing, but we can still do better!
More clubs are recruiting female Head Coaches and Assistant Coaches for their Girls teams. And, the number of Girls teams in the league continues to grow too.
Female coaches are important for Girls teams, because they show the players and the parents that there are women who are skilled hockey players and leaders. FULL ARTICLE>>
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IIHF WORLD GIRLS' ICE HOCKEY WEEKEND
USA Hockey is looking for associations and rinks to host opportunities to build awareness, celebrate your current players and grow participation for girls' hockey as part of the sixth annual IIHF Girls' Hockey Weekend October 7-8, 2017. To participate, host sites can utilize; try hockey for free, cross-ice jamboree, season kick-off party or create an original event to celebrate local female hockey players.
Host site registration is now open - click
HERE to register. Questions? Please contact Shannon at
shannonw@usahockey.org with questions regarding registration.
In 2016, nearly 130 locations across the United States celebrated the sixth annual IIHF World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend.
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ONE-TIMERS...GREAT READS & ADVICE
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YES, IT'S A GIRL HOCKEY PLAYER!
By Emily Erson ~ My son started hockey at five years old. On occasion, a girl played on his team. In one instance during a Bantam game, he got lit up by a girl hockey player so hard he gained an entirely new perspective on what it means to play like a girl (insert girl power smile). Now with a girl hockey player of my own, I feel like I am navigating murky waters.
When my 4-year-old daughter couldn't wait to strap on skates and start playing, I had no apprehension what so ever. But over the past two years, I've noticed that having a girl who plays hockey is a lot different than having a boy. I get more and more lost the more she plays.
Seriously, what is a Jill? I thought a jock strap had a particular job. I had no idea a girl needed a Jill? And, that's just the beginning.
Fitting a pony tail in a helmet correctly should be an art
-especially when your daughter will only wear her hair one way. The more my daughter's passion for hockey grows, the more puzzled I become. FULL ARTICLE>>
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REST & RECOVERY: THE MOST OVERLOOKED AREA OF ATHLETICS AND SPORTS PERFORMANCE
By Don Lewis, Owner & Founder, Tier 1 Athletic Performance ~ Today I would like to talk about rest and recovery. Oh yeah, I know this is not at the top of the list of exciting topics, but rest and recovery are crucial to excellence in ice hockey.
Most of us remember our youth as a time of constant activity. We were out playing from sun up until we were called in for dinner. However, we were not involved in the organized activities the way our children are today. There were no adults around to tell us we were not performing up to expectations. We just went out and played without the scrutiny that athletes now endure. Therefore, planning sleep and recovery periods is much more important today. If you want your hockey player to be at her or his best, you must allow enough time for sleep and recovery between athletic sessions. FULL ARTICLE>>
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DON'T LOSE A $140K SCHOLARSHIP FOR A 140-CHARACTER TWEET
Social media accounts can be a very effective communication tool, but only when used in a respectful way. It is very important for student-athletes to be aware that college coaches are continuously looking at the social media accounts of their recruits, and to know that whatever they post on social media is on the internet forever for people to see. In the video above Casey Miller, PCA's Program Manager, urges all student-athletes to think critically before they post to social media.
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COACHING ADVICE FOR DEALING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
Wendy Weiss is a 2016 national winner of PCA's Double-Goal Coach® Award Presented by TeamSnap for her work with Caldwell High School Girls Softball in Caldwell, TX. These days, social media is always at the fingertips of young athletes. Managing that can be quite the task for a coach. As Weiss tell us in this video, her strategy is to teach kids about the permanence of what is put on the internet, and that they are representatives of the team and program.
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