Atom A Hockey: KC Crusaders

Blake and the KC Crusaders had a great year!  We had a fabulous group of kids and parents this year and we all had a lot of fun on and off the ice.  We were together anywhere from 4 to 5 times a week most weeks so we really bonded ;)  Players, siblings and parents!!  The girls had their friends to run around the arena with and I was happy to visit with the mom's and some of the dad's too ;) Cal spent many, many, many hours planning practices, setting lines, worrying, dealing with issues that arose and also a few hours coaching!!  His assistant coaches were awesome this year! The Dad's had a Dad's night before Christmas - poker, Oilers game, laughs and a few drinks ;)  Cal got home at 3 am or something like that and from all reports, they had a really good time! The Mom`s had a few outings - a paint nite, a night out on the town and a brunch. With so many hours spent together, there are way too many highlights to type out a detailed list, so I'll try my best to share them here and in photo's ... We'll start with our first team function, a bottle drive with pizza party!  Then there was a Halloween pumpkin carving party, the Tofield tournament, Oil Kings games, spending hours in a salon getting playoff hair!! A Christmas bowling party, team builder karate night, an awesome 3 on 3 game, dryland training, dinners and lunches out, a wind-up Nerf gun party +more!!! So much fun. I was team manager and although it felt like another part time job, it was a pleasure working with such awesome people. Here's some pics to sum of this wonderful hockey season (in no particular order!)!!!

Dinner at BP's after a game!

Road trip to Tofield!!

Our home base in Tofield, lots of hours spent in this room = good team bonding!!

#1 ~ Tofield tournament champs!

Tofield trophy

Handsome boy - ready for team photos

Christmas party

Family skate!

fab 5

Confed tourney - B side champs

Mom's night out!!

2 Oil Kings players joined a practice!!

Chance of a lifetime - playing on Rogers Place ice!

KC Crusaders Coaches on the Oilers bench

Big screen at Rogers Place

MHW Final!

Silver medal in Minor Hockey Week

Desa Karate night

Cheering on the Oil Kings

Playoff hair

.... more to come ...

U10 Step 1 Ringette: Blue Dragons

This was Emerson`s first year of U10 ringette and she absolutely loved it!!!  So much so that she is now playing 3 on 3 this spring :) She had a great team of girls and a great coach! This was her first year of league play and she loved all the team bonding, apparel, etc!  They had personalized practice jerseys, Triple Flip hoodies, matching toques and of course the team mascot - a blue dragon! 

Here are some highlights from Emerson`s season:

1) Team bottle drive: The girls had so much fun collecting bottles and then playing at the park!
2) PJ Practices: They had pj practices through out the year, always after an early morning practice!  PJ practice = wear your pj`s to practice, wear your pj`s after practice and enjoy hot chocolate and TimBits with your team :)

3) Fort Saskatchewan Tournament: the teams first tournament! They really pulled together during their 3 games and had fun filling two GRIT hockey bags for the food bank and had a blast having a pizza party lunch!

4) Silver Ring Tournament: a great weekend at their home tournament!!

5) Game vs. parents and siblings: the girls had a blast `schooling` their family ;) 

6) Year end wind up party: A fun evening at Jumpy Things, complete with Blue Dragon cupcakes and cookies!!

Proud of the Blue Dragons for filling 2 GRIT bags for the Foodbank!!

1st league game win + a successful bottledrive :)

Team apparel!!

So proud of my Blue Dragon player!!

A great season with the Blue Dragons!!