Tuesday, November 12, 2002

IN THIS ISSUE:

Website Down
Rahway Schedule
Winter Break Event - December
ECRHA Selects hit NARCh
Special Thanks

RAHWAY SCHEDULE - ECRHA WEBSITE OFF LINE
Our website is temporarily down due to a temporary problem that the host company encountered that is beyond our control. We will be back on line shortly. Please go to Inline Hockey Central at: http://www.inlinehockeycentral.com and click on the Message Board for College Roller Hockey to view all weekly ECRHA updates including the game schedule for this weekend's Rahway, NJ Event.

OPEN ECRHA EVENT - ALL WELCOME
Come play in the ECRHA Winter Break Event in Harrisburg, PA December 6-8. The price is $500 and is open to all College Teams; Full ECRHA Members and ECRHA Affiliates and teams interested in joining ECRHA for the future. A discounted price of $475 applies to teams who register and full pay no later than November 20th. Deadline for all registration is November 29th. A $250 non-refundable deposit is required. The registration fee does not apply to League teams who have been bumped off of prior ECRHA Events and 'B' teams who voluntarily change previously requested events. Please join us for this extra ECRHA event and some fun activities to be announced before the tournament. If interested, please send an email to Rebecca Breitel at [email protected].

WHO IS WINNING IN THE ECRHA
After 5 ECRHA weekends with 4 events counting towards ECRHA stats, any conclusion as to who's going to emerge as #1 this season is impossible to predict. The races in both Division I and Division II are wacky with no prediction being valid. Any team can take it. This upcoming weekend's round the clock event in Rahway will add to the tight races. Come on down to Center Circle and join us! See big games this weekend like James Madison U vs. University of Rhode Island, Northeastern vs. U of Delaware, Towson vs. Boston, Maine vs. Neumann, Millersville vs. Wentworth.

ECRHA TO SEND SELECTS TO NARCh
The ECRHA Selects will be competing in DI at NARCh Winternationals in Las Vegas this coming January. The Selects will be headed by Coach Kevin Murphy of Penn State Altoona and accompanied by the ECRHA President, Commissioner, and team trainer out to Nevada in January. While the roster has currently not been released, you can expect to see top talent from the Eastern college teams of the CRHL. The ECRHA Selects players will also be available to discuss their college roller hockey programs and educate the public about CRHL and ECRHA. ECRHA is seeking to raise $3000 in funding for this venture and humbly requests that if anyone would like to make a contribution, please send any amount to ECRHA even if only a few dollars. We are also looking for sponsorship relationship. If you are interested in assisting the team, please contact the ECRHA President Rebecca Breitel 516-238-4040. Any support of the college program is appreciated.

NARCh will also be host to a CRHL Elite Tournament Series at Winternationals. CRHL will qualify 16 member college teams who will compete in the college Division. For more on this, please visit www.crhl.net, which has recently undergone a great makeover.

THANK YOUs
Mike Jones from Williamsport YMCA: Thank you for your assistance in the recent Williamsport event. You recruited 40 children for the free Hockey College Clinic and helped make it our most successful clinic so far this year. Your tribute to Penn State's fallen player Ron Dax was beautifully conveyed in the absence of many still not feeling the strength to speak aloud. We appreciate your flawless support. Thank you to Betsy, Anna, and Amy Yoder of Alafia for their beautiful song in prayer of Ron and a gorgeous rendition of our National Anthem. The Williamsport event was refreshingly redeeming after the suffocating snowstorm that brought tragedy upon us last January.

That's it for now. Don't forget to register for the Winter Break Event! The event is packing out quickly and only a limited amount of spots exist!

ECRHA is a proud member of the CRHL and USA Hockey Inline. For the best roller hockey site on the Internet, visit www.inlinehockeycentral.com. Property of the ECRHA, it's website, all contents and all publications, may not be duplicated or reprinted without explicit permission from the President of ECRHA.

Best Regards.
Rebecca Breitel,
ECRHA President
[email protected]
http://www.ecrha.net/
http://www.crhl.net/

"No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care." ---John Maxwell

Rebecca