Category Archives: Youth
Tigers alum Swayman lands USHL roster spot, NCAA commitment
December 6th, 2016Jeremy Swayman came from Alaska to join the Pikes Peak Miners’ (now Colorado Springs Tigers) 18U AAA team prior to last season and made an immediate impact between the pipes. This season, he’s doing the same with the United States Hockey League’s (USHL) Sioux Falls Stampede and recently secured an NCAA Division I commitment with…
Slew of RoughRiders standouts making plans for WHL, NAHL hockey
December 6th, 2016The junior hockey world is taking note of the Rocky Mountain RoughRiders’ course of development. Since mid-October, four RoughRiders players signed tenders with North American Hockey League (NAHL) teams and a fifth, Midget 16U AAA forward Nikita Krivokrasov, signed a Western Hockey League (WHL) standard player agreement with the Prince Albert Raiders. “All of these…
For 53 years, Littleton Hawks have developed players for junior, NCAA, pro hockey
December 3rd, 2016When Grant Arnold was a young hockey player growing up in the Littleton Hockey Association (LHA), it’s unlikely anyone foresaw him helping the University of Denver to a Frozen Four. Or developing into one of just three two-time captains in the program’s nearly 70-year history. Arnold, who began his pro career this fall playing for…
For Doremus family, Aspen Junior Hockey helped open doors
November 15th, 2016Sometimes in life, all that’s needed is one opportunity, that one break to make everything come to fruition. Andrew and Jeanne Doremus and their five sons – Ryan, Tyler, Daniel, Jack and Willy – call Aspen home and each boy developed with Aspen Junior Hockey (AJH) in their youth days. READ OUR LATEST ISSUE Andrew…
Rampage 15U team hitting the ground running in T1EHL play
November 8th, 2016So far, so good for the Colorado Rampage 15U AAA team in the first year USA Hockey has made the age level a national program. Coach Marc Boxer‘s club won only four of its first 10 games in the Tier 1 Elite Hockey League (T1EHL), but went 3-1 in a league showcase from Sept. 30-Oct….
CAHA deaf and blind hockey clinics hit on all cylinders
November 4th, 2016It was a day Kole Mudra and a young man will never forget. Mudra is a 6-foot, 225-pound center for the 20U Pikes Peak Miners of the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League (RMJHL). The young man is a student in his early teens at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind in Colorado Springs….
Tigers’ 16U AA Black team finding chemistry equals success
October 26th, 2016For some teams, playing six games in five days can be an inconvenience, but the Colorado Springs Tigers 16U AA Black team prefers to use a situation like that as a measuring tool. The Tigers started the season playing in the Denver Pioneer Classic over Labor Day weekend, losing in the championship finals to the…
Aspen Junior Hockey carries on Western Slope tradition
October 25th, 2016Back some 40 years ago, all it seemed anyone needed to play for the Aspen Junior Hockey (AJH) youth program was a stick, skates and a copy of Time magazine. Yes, times have changed. The AJH organization started in 1972 with John McBride at the helm. A Princeton University graduate and former member of the…
RoughRiders’ 16U AAA standout Morrison commits to Air Force
October 24th, 2016Jonathan Morrison’s good year keeps getting better. The Rocky Mountain RoughRiders’ 16U AAA defenseman jumped onto scouts’ radars this summer by playing well at the USA Hockey Select 16 Festival and then the 2000 birth year committed to the Air Force Academy (Atlantic Hockey) on Oct. 9. “I’m very excited,” he said. “It was a…
Trip home to Russia reenergizes youth coach Krivokrasov
October 19th, 2016This past August, Andrei Krivokrasov ventured back to his home country of Russia to visit his parents and to also serve as a guest coach and instructor for a 2008 birth year youth team. On his recent trip, he was able to compare and contrast youth hockey development in Russia, particularly in Krivokrasov’s hometown of…