IHF Coach and Manager Meeting and More!

Dear Coaches, Managers and High School Roller Hockey Fans,

Like many of you, roller hockey for the IHF Board is a year round activity.
It’s been only a short while since we closed out the 2009-10 IHF Season and now
here we are nearly at the start of the 2010-11 Season. We’ve been busy and
working others on everything from schedules to a new division, rules, playoff
formats, sponsorships, new coaches committee, new IHF Spring Season, and more.
And we want to take a brief moment of your time to inform you of a few important
items of interest to you and your hockey club.

First, the annual IHF Coach and Manager Meeting - A must-attend event for every
club and team with plans on participating in the 2010-10 Season (one Rep per
team is mandy and Team Captains are encouraged to attend too!). The meeting is
Sunday, Sept. 12th from 4-7:00 PM and held in the posh training facilities at
the Yard House corporate offices near Spectrum in Irvine. We’ll be hosting
guest speakers and offering door prizes donated by our sponsors. A detailed
invite and agenda will be forthcoming under separate cover. Please plan to
attend and don’t rely on email for what you will miss at this season kick-off
meeting.

Second, the new Combo Division - a “Leave No Players Behind” program to assist
those disenfranchised players from teams with too few players to form and
players wanting to play high school hockey but with no team, is being introduced
to the League this season. If your team, or players that you may know of, may
be looking to reorganize and/or form a new team to play in this new division,
the Combo Division is already taking applicants. Attached is a flyer for some
more information, and details will be available at the Sept. 12th meeting.

Third, the 2010-11 IHF Season Schedule – a new format this year abbreviates the
Fall Season and adds the new Spring Season. Fall season highlights include:
Preseason begins Sept. 27th (5-games!); Regular season begins Nov. 1st
(10-games!); and Weekend tourney-style Playoff & Championships will complete the
season before State Cup scheduled for March, 2011. Attached is a Season Planner
provided for your reference.

Included in our Sept. 12th speakers’ list will be community members who will be
introducing the 4th annual Give Blood Play Hockey Inline Hockey Charity
Tournament which hosts a large high school contingent. A community-oriented
event and fun for the whole family, students and athletes alike can volunteer
for community service hours too. Please visit their web site at
www.givebloodplayhockey.org.

If you’re a Facebook user, the IHF now has its own Fan Page where it frequently
updates information and answers questions about high school roller hockey. Just
keyword IHF Hockey!

We’ll be sending more on the above topics again soon and look forward to seeing
you at our kick-off meeting.

Thanks in advance for passing this along on to folks who you think may be
interested.


Best regards,
IHF (INTERSCHOLASTIC HOCKEY FEDERATION)
Board of Directors
ihf.directors@gmail.com


Jay Piz
IHFhockey@gmail.com
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of the roller hockey experience growing up. Please help us to put these
student-athletes on the rinks!