The camp will consist of a two hour on ice session run from 8am through 10 am. Healthy snack will be provided and then the players will be given a off-ice session run by qualified personal fitness coach Ross Green. Alex Mettam is also going to be on ice Wednesday through Friday to provide specialist netminding coaching. More coaches will be announced over the coming weeks.
Cost of the camp is just £125.00 per week or £30 per day session.
We are pleased to be able to announce the Easter Hockey Camp for April 2-6 2012. All junior ages welcome. Ice times will run from 8am – 10am each morning with snack after ice. It will be run by Head Coach Nick Poole along with other members of MKL and guest coaches. Stay tuned for more details and final price. Places can be booked by emailing Nick at poole19@btinternet.com
A bit late but…….
November’s player of the month nominees were:
U10 Aaron Bonsell
U12 John Revell
U14A Aaron Foster
U14B Milan Overton
U16A Gregor Welton
U16B Hamish Blackwood
U18s Nathan Carmichael
The Winner of the Nando’s voucher is Nathan Carmichael.
Whilst the Christmas ice rink at thecentre:mk was intended to give shoppers a taste of the grace of ice skating, visitors also had a taste of a much faster-paced activity on the same ice, when it became the setting for the fastest team sport on earth. Players from the Milton Keynes Storm junior ice hockey team took to the ice on Wednesday 28 December for a demonstration of ice hockey skills, to showcase this fast-paced and exciting sport for the general public.Based at nearby Planet Ice Arena in Milton Keynes, a total of 120 MK Storm players compete at several levels from U10 to U18, taking on teams from as far apart as the Isle of Wight and Peterborough – and many places inbetween! MK Storm are supervised by a team of fully qualified, volunteer coaches under the watchful eye of highly-respected coach and player, Canadian Nick Poole – Director of Junior Development for Milton Keynes ice hockey and currently player-coach for the Milton Keynes Lightning senior team. Under Nick’s leadership, the Lightning are the English Premier League’s most successful team with three league titles and four play-off titles in their 10-year history, and currently riding high in this season’s EPL table.MK junior skaters are often selected for international duty, the most recent being the selection of Edward Knaggs from MK Storm U14’s to represent England. Current MK Lightning skaters Jamie Line, Leigh Jamieson and Ross Green – who this month represented Team GB in the U20’s World Championships – all began their playing careers with MK Storm and have now found success in the English Premier League.
Nick Poole expressed his thanks for the demonstration opportunity given to MK Storm, and said he hoped visitors to thecentre:MK would take time out to enjoy the skills on show and support grass-roots ice hockey: “We’re very grateful to the shopping centre management for allowing MK Storm the chance to give people a free taste of what an exciting sport ice hockey is. In Milton Keynes we have one of the country’s leading teams, the MK Lightning and produced some great international players, but grass roots hockey is the foundation of everything we’ve achieved. So we hope people will like what they see on Wednesday and make the effort to come down to Planet Ice to take in a game occasionally – whether that’s MK Storm, Thunder or Lightning. And if any young skaters are inspired enough to want to have a go for themselves then that’s fantastic – regardless of age, if you can skate around the rink unaided then come and try your hand at hockey, maybe the next generation of star players are out there waiting to be discovered!”
Young skaters aged from 5 – 15 who want to find out more about playing ice hockey with MK Storm can book a place on the Learn To Play course by contacting Viki Little on 0752 884 2216
Once again fun was had by all when players from Milton Keynes Lightning skated with MK Storm. This yearly tradition is always a great success and Storm would like to thank all the Lightning players for giving the juniors a great time.
A great turn out for the skate a mile and Storm managed to raise £210.57 for British Heart Foundation. Thanks for all that took part.
Our annual event where the kids skate/play team games with MKL and is very much looked forward to by the junior players , will be taking place on the 8th December 6.30pm – 7.30pm . We have organised for the bar to be open and are hoping that players and families will stay afterwards for food and drinks, there will also be raffles,tombolas etc. It would be helpful to get an idea of the number of players that will be attending so that we can consider the food options .Please can you give me a rough idea of numbers by the 30th November .
This event will be very similar to the event we took part in at Bletchley Fire Station. We will be running a shoot the puck stall and giving out our new leaflets in the hope that we attract people to come to a MKL game or learn to play. If anyone would like to come along for an hour or so to help out please can they let Nicky Okell know. It would be great to have a few juniors throughout the day to demonstrate their shooting ability!
On SUNDAY 20th NOVEMBER Milton Keynes Junior Ice Hockey Club will be skating a mile to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation .
The skate is after the Milton Keynes Lightning game and we would like as many friends , spectators, parents to join us
All we ask is that you give a donation to BHF
Planet Ice have very kindly agreed to donate skate hire for those that require skates.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE !
