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Page updated 9/29/05

TGHA Update 9/29/05

This Week on the Ithaca Ice
This Week on the Web
This Week on TV*
Good Time to Register
Tell Your Friends to Join You
Everyone's Invited
Write for USA Hockey Essay Contest
*At the bottom of this email!
This Week on the Ithaca Ice
 
10/3 at The RINK
  5:15-6:15 Initiation and House  
  6:15-7:15 12U
  6:45-7:45 14U
 
10/4 at Lynah
  7:45-9:4:15 14U  
  8:15-9:45 19U
 
10/8 at The RINK
  11:45-1:15  TBA (Stay Tuned!)
 
10/9 at The RINK
  2:15-3:45 19U vs. Mohawk Valley 19U
 
This Week on the Web
 
Adult Education Week September 26-30
 
Visit the web site link below for information for parents, coaches and board members about how we can be most appropriate to support our children and members.

 http://www.usahockey.com/usa_hockey/main_site/main/home/
 
Good Time to Register!
 
How to Register for 2005-06
 
Registrar Richard Goldstein has updated the registration forms for the upcoming 2005-06 season. Blank forms can be downloaded from the web site www.ithacagirlshockey.com and completed and returned by mail to him. However he will be printing personalized forms (data from last season preprinted) for all continuing members.  These will be available at  Open House and certain practices (including Oct. 3) or by contacting Richard.  When mailing completed forms to TGHA, PO Box 3962, Ithaca, NY 14852 with checks writen to TGHA, the full envelope weighs more than 1 ounce; please use two stamps. 
 
Everyone needs to be registered for going on the ice for the first time this season whether it be for tryouts or for preseason ice offerings or for regular season in October.  Information about TGHA scholarships and payment by installments can be obtained from Richard.
 
Newcomers who are seeking information about TGHA are being directed to contact Wendy Bakal at wendyb@twcny.rr.com, 256-0669.
 
2005-06 Fees
 
Fees include USA Hockey registration (and the annual subscription to American Hockey Magazine) and are set to cover the cost of ice use of each team and program.  Fees do not include $75 that can be earned back in fundraising this year.  Everyone will be needed to participate in fundraising in order for the budget income to be raised, and travel teams will have specific goals specifically to cover their tournament expenses.
 
Initiation
    Full season full time (twice a week)    $150
    Full season half time                         $100 
    Half season full time                          $100
    Half season half time                          $75
House    $200
Recreation  To be determined on a case by case basis depending on ice use
 
Tell Your Friends to Join You!
 
Two great chances are coming up for newcomers to join TGHA...or at least to explore the sport and the great opportunities!
 
Monday Oct 17
6:30 p.m. The RINK
Try Girls Hockey Night
Free chance for girls of elementary and middle school age to come try on some equipment, try using a stick while on skates, meet some great TGHA members and coaches, learn about our scholarships and the Cub Club program!
 
Monday Oct. 24
6:30 p.m. The RINK
Open House
This is our annual kickoff for the season.  ALL members and coaches and parents are strongly encouraged to attend....AND bring along a friend who might want to get to know us better!  Door prizes, Refreshments, FUN on the ice, and speeches in the lobby!
 
Everyone's Invited
 
TGHA alumna and friend Megan Shull has published another book, "Amazing Grace" especially for teen girls. Free event to meet the author at Tuesday, October 4 at 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. at the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell.  Hosted by Borders.
 
USA Hockey Essay Contest

From the September 2005 issue of USA Hockey Magazine:
(No Deadline Has Been Announced)

 'Why I Play Hockey' Essay Contest
Here's your chance to tell the hockey world what you love about our great game.  USA Hockey magazine is hosting an essay contest for players of all ages to tell why you play hockey, whether it's ice, inline, knee or street hockey.
The top essays will be selectedto appear in the the world's biggest and best hockey publication, or on-line at usa-hockeymagazine.com.  Every entry will be eligible to win prizes such as gloves, sticks and skates from USA Hockey corporate partners and advertisers.
Send your essay of no more than500 words to USA Hockey Magazine, Essay Contest, 1775 Bob Johnson Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, or email it to essay@usahockey.org    We'll select the top essays for publication in the December issue of USA Hockey Magazine.  Runner-up essays will appear on usahockeymagazine.com.  All contestants must be currently registered USA Hockey members.
This Week on TV
September 30 Begins the Pre-Olympic Series

NEWS: Cornell's Jen Munhofen was selected for the ECAC All Stars team which will play the USA team on November 1 at Yale.

CSTV To Televise Opening Game of Hilton Family Skate to 2006 Tour On Friday
 
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - College Sports Television (CSTV) will televise Friday's (Sept. 30) opening game of the Hilton Family Skate to 2006 Tour when the U.S. Women's National Ice Hockey Team meets the Western Collegiate Hockey Association All-Stars at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn.
 
The 11-game, 10-city tour is part of Team USA's preparation for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy.
 
Opening faceoff for Friday's contest is set for 7 p.m.  The veteran broadcast team of Jim Rich and Ellen Weinberg will call the game for CSTV.
 
"We're extremely pleased to continue our relationship with CSTV," said Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey. "The elite brand of hockey fans will see on Friday is due to the continuing development of women's hockey at all levels."
 
The only digital media company exclusively dedicated to college sports, CSTV Networks, Inc., connects more college sports fans to more college sports than any other media company. Further information is available at www.CSTV.com.
 
 The broadcast can be heard live via the Internet by visiting www.usahockey.com
 
WCHA All-Stars Ready to Face U.S. Women's National Team

Compiled by USCHO Staff   www.uscho.com

In the final weekend before the start of the college season, an All-Star team of WCHA Players will face the 2005-06 U.S. Women's National Team in a two-game series to lead off the Hilton Family Skate to 2006 Tour. The pre-Olympic tour begins Friday Sept. 30 at the XCel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. and continues Oct. 1 at the DECC in Duluth, Minn. Both games begin at 7 p.m. CT, and the first game will be televised on CSTV.

Mark Johnson, the 1980 Olympic gold medalist and Wisconsin head coach, will lead the WCHA All-Stars. He will be assisted by by Minnesota state assistant Ruthann Kragh and St. Cloud assistant Jeff Giesen. The team was selected by the all-star team coaching staff with input from all eight league coaches.

Twenty players representing all eight teams have been selected for the all-star team. Four players from Wisconsin and three players from both Minnesota and Minnesota Duluth make up the team along with two players each from Bemidji State, Minnesota State, North Dakota and Ohio State.

The U.S. Women's National Team roster includes eight players with WCHA ties. Minnesota Duluth's Jenny Potter, a two-time Olympian, and is joined by Minnesota State's Shari Vogt, who is making her first apperance on the U.S. National Team while Minnesota's Krissy Wendell, Natalie Darwitz, and Courtney Kennedy were members of the 2002 U.S. Olympic team. Minnesota's Kelly Stephens and Winny Brodt and Wisconsin's Molly Engstrom round out the WCHA's representatives.

The Hilton Family Skate to 2006 Tour includes 11 games in 10 cities as the U.S. Women’s National Team prepares for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy. During the Tour,the team will face collegiate all-star teams from the ECACHL and Hockey East.

Mary
Mary M. Grainger
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Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone 607-257-3268
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Cell 607-280-4380
 

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