High School Roller Hockey

[zipyaj]

Would like to learn more about your High School Roller Hockey Team; Varsity and Club status Yes or No, recognition programs (e.g. Varsity Letter, Yearbook, PE credit, etc.), league affiliation, and more. Will share info too! While centric to California, interests are nationwide and not-for-profit. Working together to increase awareness and make interscholastic roller hockey more and more recognized serves to help build our sport.

In So CA? www.IHF-HOCKEY.org/ (http://www.ihf-hockey.org/) provides information about the IHF high school roller hockey leagues in Orange County California and the surrounding communities. We also offer assistance to our teams who seek assistance in approaching school districts, etc., in their goals for achieving recognition (see: http://www.inlinehockeycentral.com/article.php?article_id=51434 (http://www.inlinehockeycentral.com/article.php?article_id=51434)). We also look forward to sharing the cause with like-minded leagues, teams and intervals everywhere.

Jay Piz
IHF Director, Media Relations and Statistics

[mr sticky]

im in highschool but as far as i know there arent any teams in schools near me, it sucks because i play outside of school, is there anywhere in texas where you can play highschool roller hockey?

[RINKRAT]

I don't know how far you are from Houston but there is a High School Program out there? Contact Jopa Sports in Houston for more information. You can get contact information by visiting www.jopasports.com...Ask for Debra.

Hope that helps,

RAT

[RichardGraham]

Hi Jay,

Good luck with this effort. Thanks for helping to keep Inline Hockey Central's readers informed.

[Jim16]

Colorado has a great high school program, in it's 5th year and has over 75 high school teams involved. The organization is called "Colorado High School Inline Hockey Association" CHSIHA. The President of organization is "Ed Delgato". He can be reached at [email protected] Go to there web page at www.chsiha.com (http://www.chsiha.com). Alot of good stuff.

[mr sticky]

lmfao wats the point of roller hockey in colorado....it snows there, im pretty close to houston but not close enough, and my parents wont move just so i can play hockey:mad: how am i going to play in college if i can't get a scholarship or play competitive hockey ( i play at a rink and not alot of people play here so i get used to all the teams playing style and none of them are that good)

[viking33]

Hey!Colorado is one of the few places where inline hockey is growing. I love the high school league and Ed would do anything to help the league grow.

[RichardGraham]

Hey Mr. Sticky,

There's this cool new concept -- it's called playing indoors. Check it out. You can play it anywhere, and if you're in Texas, you can probably even avoid the cows. :cool:

[mr sticky]

Hey Mr. Sticky,

There's this cool new concept -- it's called playing indoors. Check it out. You can play it anywhere, and if you're in Texas, you can probably even avoid the cows. :cool:

o really? why else would i be on this forum unless i played in doors dumb****? and no you can not play it anywhere, many rinks do not have indoor hockey, and leave your stereotypical bull**** off the interenet, its annoying, the nearest cow to me is probably 100 miles away.
anyway, i have a place where i can play but it's not competitive enough for me to hope to play college hockey, i want to play for my highschool so i can get a scholorship or at least make a team when i go to college.

[RichardGraham]

Hey Mr. Sticky,

I was just kidding, but re-reading my post, I can see it wasn't helpful. I guess I deserve your response:


o really? why else would i be on this forum unless i played in doors dumb****? and no you can not play it anywhere, many rinks do not have indoor hockey, and leave your stereotypical bull**** off the interenet, its annoying, the nearest cow to me is probably 100 miles away.
anyway, i have a place where i can play but it's not competitive enough for me to hope to play college hockey, i want to play for my highschool so i can get a scholorship or at least make a team when i go to college.

On the other hand, you could lighten up a bit.

[DannyG]

...why else would i be on this forum unless i played in doors dumb****? and no you can not play it anywhere, many rinks do not have indoor hockey, and leave your stereotypical bull**** off the interenet, its annoying, the nearest cow to me is probably 100 miles away.

anyway, i have a place where i can play but it's not competitive enough for me to hope to play college hockey, i want to play for my highschool so i can get a scholorship or at least make a team when i go to college.

I am thinking that Dallas and Houston, at least, still have a competitive level somewhere. Austin as well, but it's been a while since I've seen team from there.

However, line a hundred players up in your mind...if you're at least as good as half of 'em, then you can contribute to a college club team...but, even in a vacuum, continue real training. Seek out better players, ask for their advice. work on skating and stickhandling, not just shooting and deking. Find a team that you can play in a few regional and national tournaments with. Between NARCh and AAU regionals and finals, there are always 16's and 18's teams looking for players. Post your availability on this message board, you can see that others have advertised "looking for a team" type messages.

Tournament play will show you what a national level player is, at every age, and you can measure yourself.

Oh, yeah, please allow me to ask you to re-think your response toward Rich. I've skated with the guy at USAHIL adult nationals. Rich is a dependable guy, works his butt off, and is an above average player. His skating is sorta choppy, but he gets there, and he scores goals...he has also given his entire life, money, and energy to this sport for two decades. He was the editor of Roller Hockey Magazine, the (frankly) only magazine ever to cover this sport...he has practically gone bankrupt working in this sport, and he sure doesn't make a living operating this web site. He's one of the good guys.

Sticky, you can feel complimented that he thought enough of you to joke around with you, and note he didn't get mad at you when you mis-read his intent.

and also, Oh, yeah...uh, I live in Texas, albeit far west Texas...is it possible to be anywhere in Texas and not be at least within a few miles of a cow, let alone 100??? Just kidding, but only barely...

[mr sticky]

I am thinking that Dallas and Houston, at least, still have a competitive level somewhere. Austin as well, but it's been a while since I've seen team from there.

However, line a hundred players up in your mind...if you're at least as good as half of 'em, then you can contribute to a college club team...but, even in a vacuum, continue real training. Seek out better players, ask for their advice. work on skating and stickhandling, not just shooting and deking. Find a team that you can play in a few regional and national tournaments with. Between NARCh and AAU regionals and finals, there are always 16's and 18's teams looking for players. Post your availability on this message board, you can see that others have advertised "looking for a team" type messages.

Tournament play will show you what a national level player is, at every age, and you can measure yourself.

Oh, yeah, please allow me to ask you to re-think your response toward Rich. I've skated with the guy at USAHIL adult nationals. Rich is a dependable guy, works his butt off, and is an above average player. His skating is sorta choppy, but he gets there, and he scores goals...he has also given his entire life, money, and energy to this sport for two decades. He was the editor of Roller Hockey Magazine, the (frankly) only magazine ever to cover this sport...he has practically gone bankrupt working in this sport, and he sure doesn't make a living operating this web site. He's one of the good guys.

Sticky, you can feel complimented that he thought enough of you to joke around with you, and note he didn't get mad at you when you mis-read his intent.

and also, Oh, yeah...uh, I live in Texas, albeit far west Texas...is it possible to be anywhere in Texas and not be at least within a few miles of a cow, let alone 100??? Just kidding, but only barely...

lmfao i was lying, the nearest cow to me is ehh 2 miles away, i just got mad. i didn't realize he was actually devoted to the sport, from his comment all i could tell was that he played and i thought he was just here to give people a hard time, i take back my insult he's deffinately somone i should look up to rather than argue with.

[HockeyNutCo87]

i agree the Highschool program in Colorado is really good. Except that they dont keep refs consistent throughout the rinks. So you have to play differently at CSC than you would at RMR to not get penalties.

[Jim16]

I would agree that the referee's are inconsistent throughtout the four facilities that CHSIHA is played. Any league you are in that has numerous facilities will have this same situation. Here's a concept that worked for me as a coach in this league (Actually any team I coach). Play basic hockey and adjust to the ref's as the game progresses.

[zipyaj]

Texas has several high school programs in the state and more are organizing. Another contributor mentioned the Houston High School Inline Hockey (HHSIL http://hhsihockey.org/) and there is also the Central Texas Coyotes league out of Ft. Hood (www.ctxcoyotes.com/). May be this helps (easier than relocating to Colorado!) Good luck!

[RoadDoggFL]

Doesn't seem relevant, but other people have brought up their areas...

Anyway, West Palm Beach (or more specifically, Wellington, FL) has a pretty damn competitive high school league. Or at least they had it at Skate Zone from 2000-2003. I don't live there anymore and Skate Zone's turned into Ice Zone or whatever, but I'd imagine that there are still high school and possibly even middle school leagues there. I doubt any teams get recognition from their schools, though.

[skielectric]

We are The Hockey Dek in Aston PA, right out side of Philadelphia. We are very interested in starting a High School league at our faciltiy but dont know where to start. Any help would be greatly apreciated. Please contact us at thehockeyd[email protected] if you have any advice for us. The sport needs more kids and we feel this is a great way to find them.

[5280]

We are The Hockey Dek in Aston PA, right out side of Philadelphia. We are very interested in starting a High School league at our faciltiy but dont know where to start. Any help would be greatly apreciated. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any advice for us. The sport needs more kids and we feel this is a great way to find them.

Let me echo the comments about CHSIHA in Colorado. The website is http://chsiha.org/colorado/ and Ed Delgato would likely be very helpful. He really loves the sport and wants it to grow. My son played (and I coached-parttime) in the Middle School League that's part of CHSIHA, and it was a great experience all around.