SCAHA CHAMPS

This year the mini mite team has the opportunity to join the SCAHA CHAMPS (California Hockey Athletes Making Progress Scholastically) program. Below is a short letter from SCAHA on what CHAMPS is all about:

Dear Parents and Athletes,

SCAHA would like invite you to participate in a program established last year called CHAMPS (California Hockey Athletes Making Progress Scholastically) and it is designed to encourage student athletes to maintain good grades while participating in youth hockey and to reward their performance.

With the chance of sports scholarships extremely slim, life lessons and lifetime memories become the priorities in all youth sporting activities.

California Hockey Athletes Making Progress Scholastically (CHAMPS) was established by the Anaheim Ducks and LA Kings in conjunction with SCAHA to encourage, support and reward youth hockey players who commit themselves to their schoolwork while enjoying the sport of hockey.

It is the goal of the California Hockey Athletes Making Progress Scholastically (CHAMPS), SCAHA, the Anaheim Ducks and LA Kings to significantly increase awareness among youth hockey players that performance in the classroom has an equal, if not more important part in life than their performance on the ice. It is also a goal of CHAMPS to generate a respect for learning in the classroom and to create future goals with and without ice hockey.

Each SCAHA member club is encouraged to join in our effort to reward every hard working hockey player both on and off the ice. Participants will receive patches to wear on their team jerseys (location is on the left front chest)compliments of the local NHL teams, tickets to either the Anaheim Ducks or LA Kings game, and be entered into an opportunity drawing for prizes, gift certificates and tickets to NHL games.

Your team manager will collect the information form and all that is required from you and your player is a record of last year’s report card, email contact and years participating. This will be used to determine who receives the patch and rewards for the season of 2010-2011.

Please turn in your report card form the prior year to your manager and they will put it into our system. We need your email and also your year participating. The due date for report cards is September 25th, 2010. They will input the information and pass it on to the CHAMPS SCAHA coordinator. All information will be kept in the strictest confidence and used to reward those participating in our program

If you are interested in being involved in CHAMPS at a club level or SCAHA level, please feel free to contact us through SCAHA at champs@scaha.com.


WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO: I am going to need a copy (legible) of your child's past report card / progress report / status report / something. Please make sure to redact (cross out) any information that you would not like to share with anyone (i.e. school ID numbers etc). I do need to have the grades (pass fail is OK, check marks are OK, smiley faces are OK). I need this information AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The deadline for me to get all this to SCAHA is Sept 25. So there is not much time (from me it has to go to the Jr Reign and from there to SCAHA).

WHAT IF MY CHILD DOESN'T HAVE A REPORT CARD FROM LAST YEAR: I was told by SCAHA that it is OK if your child does not have a report card or status report from the prior year. They can alternatively SUBMIT A PIECE OF ARTWORK SHOWING HOW MUCH THEY LOVE SCHOOL. Most of our kids have been in school for a few weeks now, so have them sit down and draw out a picture of their favorite activity at school, or why they like school. If they are writers, have them write a short sentence about why they like school. The idea is that we want to reinforce the value of education.

WHAT DO WE GET IN RETURN: Each child will receive a patch for their jersey. Every year they participate in the program, they will get a subsequent patch to add to their jersey. Jr Reign CHAMPS participants will also receive 2 free tickets through a flier from the Ducks. Through email, you will receive an opportunity to choose your game and purchase more tickets for your family at a special price. The Ducks will also provide extra activities during the games for some of the CHAMPS players attending, such as game intermissions, zamboni rides, and tickets through out the year.

More info at: http://scaha.com/view.pl?p=./champs/champsinfo.htm

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IT IS IMPORTANT THAT I GET THIS INFORMATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I prefer scans to email, but if you want, please drop them off at the box office and have them mark it to the attention of the mini mite team. Please send me an email when you do so I can go retrieve it.
-John Stauffacher
Jr Reign Mini Mites 0506 Manager

** LOI / PAPERWORK ***

PARENTS WHO HAVE NOT SIGNED THE LOI OR TURNED IN ALL OF YOUR PAPERWORK: 

Please get your paperwork in as soon as possible. If you are having trouble filing it out, or need questions answered - John will be at ice town this Saturday from 12:30 until 3:00pm and next Monday ( 9/13 ) from 5:00pm until 7:30pm to help anyone with paperwork issues or questions.

Items Needed / Wanted

Do you have lightly worn hockey equipment that you can pass along?
Do you need hockey equipment cause your little one has grown out of theirs?

Please post in the comments section any items that you need or want to give away and your name.

Club and Team Finances

Junior Reign Club Fund Raising 


As listed in the parent contract, Jr Reign Club fundraisers are required.  The money raised is to fund the "scholarships" which offset the costs for players that need extra assistance with the club fees.  Please note that club fund raising is not optional.  More information will be available on the Events page.


Team Fund Raising

Please let us know your ideas for team fund raising.  Separate from the Junior Reign Club fund raising, team fund raising is optional.  The money raised for the team will be used for the team such as tournament fee's and/or open skate/scrimmage at a Ducks/Kings/Reign game.  We have access to the Ontario Reign, Anaheim Ducks, and LA Kings organizations.  Some examples of team fund raising would be selling single game tickets, VIP packages, and Chuck-A-Puck.  If you are against fund raising, please email John.



Team Sponsorships

If any of you know of any company that would like to sponsor our team, or make a donation to our team fund - let me know. We can provide the Sponsorship letter and our proof of non-profit status. If the money is ear-marked for a specific player(s) dues; the IVHA will make sure that those monies get credited to that specific player; otherwise it will go into the team account. This is totally separate from the Junior Reign sponsorship opportunities and is specific to our individual team.


Club Scholarships

Any player can apply for the Scholarship program.  Assistance is about 15%, and the deadline to file is soon.  Contact John if you think you need assistance.  Again, this money is coming from the Junior Reign Club Fund Raising.

Pre-Season House Keeping

Parents:
You should have all received an email from our team manager, John Stauffacher on September 3rd. Here is a reminder of some of the things you need to provide to either John or IceTown ASAP.

• 1st Payment due to IceTown.  Payments are due at the beginning of the month, and invoices are sent out standard mail.  Please make your payments on time.  There is a sign in the box office window stating there is a $50 late charge after 10 days.
• Players' Birth Certificates for the Jr. Reign club file.  Legible copies are accepted, and are necessary for tournaments and SCAHA next year.
• Locker Room Rule is in effect, meaning all adults must be screened to be allowed in the locker room.  The cost is about $28 and lasts for 3 years. The information to get the screening started is located here
• Hockey Academy.  IceTown needs a 30-day notice for cancellation of hockey academy.  The box office has a short form you can fill out, so you don't get charged the following month.

Welcome!

We're pleased to launch our new blog site for the Junior Reign Mini Mites team for 2010 - 2011!  This will be your hot spot for our team information, links, contacts, and of course... just to keep up with how our team is doing this season.

I encourage you to subscribe to our site to stay current with team news and events.

Here are the meeting notes from our August 14th Meeting.  This includes the current practice schedule days and times.