DHA Wild celebrates after defeating the Burnaby Winter Club Bruins in the World School Sport Challenge at the Edge School over the weekend. A strong second period propelled the Delta Hockey Academy Wild to victory in the prep division final of the 2015 World Sport School Challenge. (more…)
The Delta Hockey Academy are excited to announce the addition of Matt Erhart to their coaching staff. Matt will be the full time head coach of the Bantam Varsity 02 team as well as an additional assistant to the Midget E15 and U18 team.
2 Inter-squad scrimmages for all players:
10:00am – 11:45am & 4:30pm – 6:15pm
This evaluation provides an opportunity for new and existing Academy players to compete for spots on the E15 and U18 teams for 2015-16. It allows coaches and scouting staff a chance to evaluate in a setting that promotes competition. This impression will give the evaluators an understanding on where specific players fit into the Delta Hockey Academy program.
The evaluation will provide the coaches with information to determine if they are:
The Midget evaluation and team selection is very unique as the formation of the final team rosters can not be finalized until the end of the summer. This is due to the domino effect that happens at the NHL & Jr levels. With this being said, we will give families and players alike, feedback when a decision has been made as to where they stand in this process.
Download and complete Midget Evaluation Registration Form
There will be a $50 fee for the Evaluation Skate
(Fee for non-current Delta Wild Players)
Please scan it back to cleary@deltasd.bc.ca (ph: 604 952 5374).
If you have any questions, please feel free to email or call: deltawild@deltasd.bc.ca
Scott May – Director of Business Operations – Head Coach U18 Prep – 604 952 5384
We’re proud to say that Delta Wild’s four teams were well represented at this years CSSHL awards.
Please follow THIS LINK to view the award recipients.
Delta Hockey Academy aiming for a well-rounded experience There’s no mistaking the mandate of the Delta Hockey Academy when speaking with academy director Ian Gallagher. “We’re not a win-at-all-costs program,” Gallagher told HockeyNow. “We want these kids to really excel in the classroom, excel in their relationships and excel in hockey, too.”
Of late, it seems the academy’s top teams—they have four: bantam varsity, bantam prep, elite U15 and prep U18—are doing an exceptional amount of the latter. Among the academy’s accomplishments at HockeyNow’s press time, both bantam teams were atop their respective divisions in league play. The bantam prep team had won its last four tournaments, including the 37th annual John Reid Memorial bantam AAA hockey tournament, one of the best in the nation.
The academy, founded in 2004, started out as a supplemental program that focused on offering skills camps to players, including those attending other academies. But, before long, the demand arose for a full-fledged academy and competitive, elite-level teams. “The rationale was, one, our kids were leaving the community to go elsewhere, but two, kids and families in the hockey community were asking for it,” Gallagher said. Part of what the Delta Hockey Academy focuses on is offering a better lifestyle for hockey families. Using the academy approach, Delta is able to incorporate school and hockey into players’ daytime schedules and takes care of the transportation, communication and other aspects of delivering high-performance hockey. The goal is to relieve some of the stress that comes with being a hockey family. As for the recent successes of the academy’s teams, Gallagher said it’s not necessarily a sign that the program is hitting its stride in recent years.
They’ve always provided high-quality hockey programs, but, as he said, it has never been a win-at-all-costs model. “We’re just staying consistent with the values we’ve always had,” he said. “We want to create good citizens. We want to create people who are good members of teams. “We want to have high-performance athletes… but people who are not just capable of being successful in the hockey world.”
