Category Archives: High School
Tahoe Hockey Academy ‘ecstatic’ to get season started
October 31st, 2016After months and months of planning, the doors finally opened at Tahoe Hockey Academy last month, and things finally started to seem real when the academy played its first games in late September. Donning its purple and white uniforms for the first time, the team traveled to Winnipeg the last weekend in September and opened…
Class finally in session at the Tahoe Hockey Academy
September 28th, 2016The date of Sept. 12 will mark an important day in Tahoe Hockey Academy’s history. After years of conceptualizing and months of planning, the academy will officially open to its first class of student-athletes. Academic lesson plans have been prepared, games have been scheduled, and the hundreds of other details have been put in place…
Tahoe Hockey Academy gaining steam toward late summer opening
August 10th, 2016It’s been years in the making, and now it’s down to the final weeks. Later this month, the Tahoe Hockey Academy will officially open its doors for the first time, and the group of men behind organizing California’s first hockey boarding school couldn’t be more ready. The excitement is palpable in Tahoe, and the momentum…
Exposure key for Colorado squads at America’s Showcase
May 23rd, 2016For Team Colorado Burgundy and Team Colorado White, the trip across the country last month was well worth it. Each squad participated in USA Hockey’s annual America’s Showcase in Pittsburgh, a tournament that gives high school junior and senior players a chance to display their talents for coaches from prep school, AAA, junior and college…
Monarch wins silver at USA Hockey high school nationals
May 7th, 2016Monarch high school coach Jimmy Dexter is humble when talking about what his team accomplished at the USA Hockey High School Nationals from March 17-21 out in Reston, Va. A silver medal and second-place finish, though, certainly is a fine finish to a season that saw Monarch go 22-1, losing in the state championship game…
Team Colorado aiming to make noise at America’s Showcase
January 27th, 2016Team Colorado is headed back to America’s Showcase only this time, bigger and hopefully, better than ever. America’s Showcase is an annual five-day hockey tournament held in the spring at Robert Morris University in suburban Pittsburgh. It gives premier junior and senior high school players representing their state an opportunity to compete and display their…
HPHL proving to be competitive spring hockey option
December 22nd, 2015Hockey in the spring? Why not? The High Plains Hockey League (HPHL) has proven since 2000 that it can be done. The USA Hockey-affiliated high school league gives hundreds of Colorado hockey players an opportunity each year to represent their school and community and play alongside their friends and classmates. A total of 34 varsity…
Colorado sees high school numbers trending skyward
October 28th, 2015The Colorado Prep Hockey League (CPHL) continues to experience growth on various levels. Two years ago, the CPHL had just six teams and after growing to 13 teams in 2014, the league now boasts 22 varsity programs for the 2015-16 season. Four junior varsity squads have also been added to the mix this year. The…
Ex-DU coach Gwozdecky comes home, takes job at Valor Christian
September 23rd, 2015George Gwozdecky had no idea what was next for him. He had just finished his second season as an assistant coach for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning after making it to the Stanley Cup Finals and losing to the Chicago Blackhawks and the only certainty was that he was not returning to Tampa Bay. Gwozdecky…
CPHL another worthy high school option
July 23rd, 2015Since its inception in 2013, the Colorado Prep Hockey League (CPHL) continues to reach new heights. The USA Hockey-sanctioned circuit began with six teams – Cherry Creek, Cheyenne Mountain, Columbine, Heritage, Regis Jesuit and Resurrection Christian – and was launched in an effort to organize fall high school teams. There were a few high school…