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Parents and players, (Peewee B)
I want to introduce myself; Royle Prince, as the
coach for the Peewee Jr. Aces and the assistant coach of our team, Mark
Skibinski. We are excited for the reorganization and new direction the Jr.
Aces Comp Hockey Program is taking in 2009 under the leadership of ‘volunteer’
Rob Snelson. This organization has recognized the high costs of comp
hockey and made significant steps to minimize your costs in this turbulent
economy.
I’m Royle Prince and will be the head coach. I’m 36
years old, I grew up in Anchorage
playing comp hockey from squirts through high school. After high school, I
went and played a couple of years of junior college football at Sierra
Junior College. I then transferred to the University of Nevada,
Reno where I
finished my four year degree with a degree in Physical Education. I started
and directed the University
of Nevada’s Club Hockey
Program and was the head coach / player. I got the program to a point
where we started recruiting with a budget from the UNR foundation and started
giving partial scholarships. While directing the
University
of Nevada hockey program I also
initiated and directed the adult and youth hockey programs for Northern Nevada for 6 years. I was invited to tryout
every year with the Reno Renegades; later became the Rage, and practiced with
that pro team in Reno
everyday for 4 years. During this same time I was the head of USA Hockey
for northern Nevada and California.
Mark Skibinski will be an assistant coach this year.
Mark is 39 years, played Division 1 hockey at Air Force. He spent some
time coaching there before accepting the head coaching position at Robert
Morris
College. Mark left
that coaching position to become a pilot with Alaska Airlines. Mark is
very well known within the Anchorage hockey
community and currently recruits for the Air Force Academy; he is a fun loving guy with a
super up-beat personality that will definitely bring the love of hockey to our
squad along with attention to detail.
As a staff we
believe the biggest components of comp hockey are quality of coaching, ice time
and personally I believe the third is that we as coaches consistently
encourage kids. Our staff completely understands the components of fun,
being part of a team, building friendships, and social confidence is priceless.
As a coaching staff we understand this aspect of youth sports as a priority
with our team as opposed to wins and losses. Comp hockey is ice time +
quality coaching + encouragement = success. For us that success will come
by working on individual hockey skills in multiple learning stations, each
practice will always be preplanned with direction and flow that will give our
skaters an opportunity to excel. Once we put those components in each
players game then team concepts will be introduced at the end of practices where
they can apply each skill set, this way the direction of practice supports our
theme of each skating session and the kids understand the movements as a part of
the game.
Royle
Prince
907.830.2708 cellular
royle@aofalaska.com office e mail
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