Western Province Ice Hockey

With bakkie loads of SA kit bags and boys pilled on top, their adventure started on Saturday afternoon from JHB airport to their accommodation in Pretoria West.  Unbelievable but believe Elsabe the Manager has a house big enough to accommodate 15 people.  With pool tables and game rooms, rest a sured the boys are happy and having fun and well fed.

They started off with a friendly match against JHB seniors on Saturday night and our boys gelled together with their fellow JHB players very well.  Our inform goalies clearly help them off together with Jarryd Goodwin putting his body on the line in the defensive role.  He received “MVP” of the match.

Sunday was the Blazer and jersey ceremony followed by a fantastic braai.  Shane Marsh, President of SAIHA arrived for the presentation.  Fantastic to see all the support from the JHB parents who catered for all of us.

Monday the boys will be heading out to the Mexican Embassy to have their visas processed.  This evening there is another friendly match/practice with the Gauteng seniors.

More to follow.

Please note that Ice hockey practice will start at 10.00am for juniors and intermediates followed by senior practice.  We now have the ice 4 Sundays of the month but will be rotating practice for all age groups.

Full schedule is still in working progress.

The team to play S.A. on Monday 1st March is as follows:

GK’S  Adam de Carvalho, Jack Nebe

Defense: George Fischer, Christian Scheiss, Grant Yates, Timo Girsch, Daniel Blaser,

Forwards: Kyle Martin, John Fay, Ivan Tchekene, Vincent van Biljon, Daniel Asmus, Carlo Smits, Anton Fraquet,Tariq Ishmail, George D’Amorol.

Please note that this team has been selected as part of the SENIOR National Team preparation for the I.I.H.F. World Championships in April with exception of the two U18 Goal Keepers.

This game will be played with full intensity and without restraint.

There is an Exhibition game scheduled for end of March again against the National Team and the W.P. team and will be solely selected on merit at that stage.

The U18 National team and all players should be there on Monday evening not only to enjoy the match but to learn from the seniors.  See you there.

It was without doubt the best start to any season.THERE WERE OVER 70 PLAYERS ON THE ICE DURING THE FIRST SESSION!!!! All of them were kept busy and all received lots of attention. On the ice it was great to have so much enthusiastic help from not only the ‘regulars’ but from the u/18 players who showed such maturity in the way they pitched in and took their responsibilty seriously. The young GK’s are ecstatic about their ‘adoption’ and as time goes on I will allocate certain kids to certain players to help mentor them.
This morning justified to me all the time and energy put in to these young men and we are a far stronger club for it, says the coach, Ronnie Wood.

Thanks to all who made it possible. Never under estimate the value of team work!!!

Please see below details for next Sunday 21st.

1. Registration will begin at 09h00 at the rink.
2. Try outs will begin at 09h00 – 09h45
3. Junior practice starts at 08h30 – 09h45
4. Please try and download the forms from the website

Please bring along all your details for registration, ID numbers and/or date of birth, email address and all contact numbers.
We will have forms at the rink as well and also try out equipment for those who don’t have equipment.  This is an opportunity to bring a friend along to try outs.  There is a small fee for this so please check all info on the website.

We are currently working on a schedule for the next 2 months (March and April) for everyone.  In the meantime here is the plan for the next few weeks.

Sunday 28th February 2010
08h30 – 09h45   juniors and intermediate practice
10h00 – 11h30   senior national team practice only (all juniors and intermediate players should stay and watch this practice)
21h00 – 22h30   U18 and senior National team practice

Monday 1st March 2010
O6h30 – 08h30  senior national team practice only
18h30 – 19h15   junior practice match
19h30 – 22h00   Exhibition Match – Seniors vs WP & International selects.

Please visit: – www.fromtheice.co.za – fantastic and insightful!

Please see this PDF for details of the upcoming fundraising event at the Barnyard Theatre.

Ronnie Wood has got the Winter Olympics hockey show times on Supersport. These are game highlights.

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Welcome to WPIHA’s new website. It’s super simple, so it is fast and will load easily on a phone browser too. We’ve changed our backend to make it quicker and easier for us to get more info and more pictures up here faster. And you can now leave comments on posts. Kind of a route-one, two-line pass website solution.

We haven’t moved absolutely everything from the old site on this one (just the most important stuff), so if you do need to check something on the old site, go to wpicehockey.co.za/2009site.

WPIHA runs various practices on a Sunday morning from 9–12 (as detailed below) (usually with the exception of the first Sunday of the month, which is dedicated to Figure Skaters). Our seniors practice on a Thursday evening 6.30–7.45pm (except in school holidays and the night before a public holiday). Matches are played on a Monday night (except in school holidays and the night before a public holiday).

WPIHA runs an Ice Hockey Academy where people who want to learn to play hockey (i.e. who have never played ice hockey before) are taught the skills of skating and the basics of ice hockey. This takes place for one hour per Sunday (9-10am) for 8 weeks, and the cost is R200 for all these sessions.

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