AAHA 2017-18 Directorship Overviews

2017/18 Goals and Objectives

2017-2108 Goals and Objectives

In bold are the 2017-18 Goals that were identified at the March 2017 Annual Meeting.Below each goal are the action steps taken by the Board to accomplish these goals.

Identify/Recruit Top Level Coaches

  • Coaches met all requirements no redlines
  • Coaches appreciation event
  • Goalie Coordinator

Provide more Coaches Training

  • Conducted Pre Season Coaches Meeting
  • Conducted Coaches Meeting in November thru Positive Coaching Alliance
  • CPR Training

Hire Power Skating Instructors

  • Hired Troy Riddle to work with Boys
  • Read and React
  • Mira Jalouso- Girls

Evaluate/Enhance Mite Program

  • Added off ice Acceleration training for the upper level mites.
  • Added more ice time 250 + hours of ice
  • Increased focus on skill progression and skating
  • Better utilization of dry-land facility at all mite levels

Identify Dedicated Goalie Coaches

  • Continued partnership with MEGA at their facility and group training for our goalies
  • Added MEGA on-ice goalie instructor training
  • Added Goalie Coordinator for all levels

Focus On New Skater Recruitment

  • Coordinated Try Hockey for Free in July. We had 93 new participants.
  • Coordinated Mini-cyclones program. We had 89 participants.
  • Coordinated Spring Cyclones program. We have 41 participants.
  • Wrote Grants for Try Hockey for Free and Equipment
  • Participated in local Parades – Community advertising about youth hockey

Evaluate Use & Design of Dryland Room, Training and Facilities

  • Use if Fob/Security System.
  • A.E.D (3) machines are installed (Grant covered some of the cost)
  • Bantam Checking Clinic

New Improvements

  • Purchased 3 year contract of TryoutEngine Software
  • Goalie Training Equipment
  • Bar down nets 2 Rinks and 2 Dryland
  • Fundraising event for scholarships- St. Johns vs Stevens Point

Coordinate Outdoor Ice – Pond Hockey

  • Weather did not permit opportunities to pursue this initiative

Mite Program – Brian Pender & Jason Jensen

The 2017-2018 season was another successful one for the Mite program. We had a total of 164 skaters that participated this year, which is up 7 skaters from the previous year’s total of 157. AAHA mite program continues to follow USA Hockey’s American Development Model (ADM). The Anoka Mite program officially began skating on 9/15/17 and officially ended on 3/13/18.

Here is the team and skater breakdown for each level for 2017-2018

Team(s) LevelSkatersIce Appearances (Includes ice before teams were formed)

1 A mites1366

3 B Mites26BW-68, BM-65

6 C Mites70C1-58, C2-60, C3-61, C4-61, C5-59, U8-63

4 D Mites55D1-45, D2-45, D3-44, D4-45

POND HOCKEY HOURS OFFERED: 10

EOY Director/Coordinator Prognosis:

This year was a big step in the right direction for our Mite program. Our total program hours went from 200 hours last year for the season, to over 250 hours this year! This is directly due to the fact that we started to implement mid-week ice, especially during the weeks where we lose our weekend ice for tournaments/districts/etc. We also started to implement split ice practices with only two teams on the ice versus the typical ADM model stations with 3 teams sharing an hour. Feedback from coaches was great and it paid dividends to the development of the players.

I would like to thank the Anoka Mite Jamboree Committee for putting together such a great event.

The Mite Jamboree committee consisted of Brian Pender, Jason Jensen, Michele Roof, Angie Coldren, Audra Wander, Kristi Nedved, Coleen Dahlmeier, and many other volunteers that helped during this great event.

I would also like to send special thanks to Jason Jensen (Mite Coordinator/administrator) for his endless work throughout the season both on and off the ice. Thanks also goes out to Stephanie Reichow (registration and mite books), Renee Voltin (ice scheduler), AAIA staff, and the entire AAHA Board of Directors for all their time and effort that they give to our program. A special thank you goes to President Katie Lang for all her countless hours that he has put into AAHA, and for her tremendous support for the changes we are trying to make to better our program.

I also would like to thank all the players, parents, managers, and volunteers for all the time and effort that you have put in this year. I especially want to thank all our Mite coaches. Your time and commitment to help our young skaters develop skills and lessons needed for the game is greatly appreciated.

Hockey is a great sport. Our mite program is fun, affordable, growing and one of the best around. We, as an association, need to continue to refine our program to ensure we are giving our skaters a first class experience here at Anoka! Parents and players at all levels, we need your help in promoting Anoka Hockey. If anyone has any questions, please contact myself or any AAHA board member.

Again, thanks to everyone who helped out this season and I hope to see you next year at the rink!

Player Development - KourtKammann

SUMMER PROGRAM

Starting out the 2017-2018 season was the summer program. JerridReinholz ran this program doing an on ice off ice dryland program which was successful. We hope to see a greater participation this year.

FALL PRE SKATE

Pre-Tryouts we have on-ice pre-skate for all the kids. We have in the past partnered with Acceleration Northwest on this, however this year we choose to use our AAHA and CO-OP coaches to run the pre-skate. This was a good use of time, getting the skaters on ice and try out ready. This was facilitated by our "top Level" coaches.

DRYLAND

We continued our relationship with Acceleration NW, all teams were scheduled for 8 sessions at 1.5 hours each. This continues to be a high value add, high intensity training.

POND HOCKEY – END OF SEASON

With ice reserved ahead of time for teams which go to regions and districts we end up with “extra” ice which is made available to the different age levels. Very important to communicate clearly with A level coaches that it is there responsibility to get coaches to the pond hockey.

GOALIES

Partnered again with Mega…. Added on ice training this year. This was liked very much. Not all goalies participating

Power Skating---Partnered with Mira Jalouso (co-op) and Troy Riddle (youth) for power skating instruction. Reviews on Mira were very good. Although VERY good when on ice Troy had trouble with communications and attendance we then engaged with Read React when Troys schedule no longer could accommodate.

Key focus areas for Player Development for the next year will be:

* More skater skills development * Pre-Skate Skills focus * Dryland room utilization in-season* More stickhandling instruction.

Tryouts – Bill Hoppenrath

The 2017 – 2018 year was another successful year in achieving the AAHA’s tryout mission of “Selecting balanced teams formed with players of similar skill.” Several positive changes were implemented in this year’s tryout process that contributed to the overall success. This could not have been achieved without the support and assistance of the countless volunteers, tryout evaluators, past and present board members, ancillary members, and all the rest of the AAHA community.

This year AAHA purchased a 3 year contractTryoutEngine a fully automated, cloud based tryout system. Briefly, this system allowed the association to load in registrations from SportsEngine, track and instantly manage player data (e.g. injuries, player move-up, waive ins, and players not trying out), randomly assign players tryout jerseys and groupings, randomize shift rotations, have judges randomly assigned to evaluate players, suggested players to tryout groupings (A pool, B pool etc.) based on an unbiased natural break algorithm, and ultimately post tryout results immediately after the last session has ended! Based on the tryout evaluators feedback, the elegant and simplistic evaluator user interface allowed tryout evaluators to identify and score players more easily, which allowed for more a more reliable and robust evaluation process. TryoutEngine alleviated the logistical and administrative strain that tryouts inevitably brings for both the tryout administrative staff and for the families involved in the tryout process. Hopefully AAHA will continue to utilize TryoutEngine in the future to ensure the tryout process remains efficient, reliable and unbiased.

I would like to thank all of the tryout evaluators from this past season for their hard work and diligence. I would also like to thank all the countless volunteers who assisted in making this complicated tryout process smooth and efficient. Thank you Kevin Brynesfor helping recruit and direct all of the volunteers. A huge thank you goes out to Mike Nagel for supporting the tryout process of the new tryout software. Another thank you goes out to Renee Voltin for helping coordinate ice availability. Finally, I would like to thank all other board members and other members of the association for their positive support through this process. With the help of all the individuals involved in the tryout process, the association was able to provide a fair, unbiased, and expedited tryout process.

Fundraising – Mandee Gilberto

One of the goals of AAHA is to keep participation in hockey affordable for all families who would like to participate.

For the 2017-2018 season, we repeated the raffle fundraising as our primary association fundraiser
and placed the buyout option at $200. This year, we achieved a profit of $43,506,25
(Total Receipts $62,600 -$14,700 Prizes -$4393.75 Printing) compared to last year of
$45,943.13 after all payouts. Several families chose to take advantage of the opportunity
to pick up more calendars to sell to help with ice costs or other hockey fees—AAHA paid $1,4000
in fundraising credits to those families that sold extra calendars.

Next year, we plan on continuing with the raffle as the primary mandatory fundraiser. It is our goal to include various ways to offset hockey costs. Any ideas you may have would be welcomed. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please contact the fundraising director on the AAHA website.

Communications – Mandee Gilberto

I would like to thank AAHA membership for another successful year of hockey. I would also like to send out a special thanks to all the coaches that volunteered many hours on the ice with the skaters.

This year was my first year as Communications Director. Updating the website with the most pertinent information was the main objective. Also, e-mails that needed to send out to the AAHA membership were also routed through the Communication Director.

Communication is very important to making the association run smoothly. If anyone has any suggestions for better communication of information, please feel free to contact the Communication Director.

Volunteers—Kevin Byrnes

This is my 5th year of being the volunteer coordinator During this past year we saw great support from our members.

Because of this support we were able to keep the required volunteer hours to 10 per family. These 10 hours could be credited toward any association event such as tryouts, tournaments, registration, mite jamboree, SKATE Program, and other miscellaneous needs. Because of your tremendous support we are able to keep that number manageable.

As in years past, teams that were participating in an Anoka Tournaments were required to volunteer 25 hours toward their particular tournament. In exchange for the 25 hours, tournament fees were reimbursed. I highly recommend that this policy is continued into the future as it helped ensure that we had adequate volunteer coverage for each tournament.

Our members donated over 2000 hours of their time throughout the year to association, this does not include regular season game responsibilities (time clock, books and penalty box) nor does it include the time that our coaches and team managers put in. Many thanks to those folks as they are the ones that teach our kids and keep us parents organized.

I would like to thank all the members who volunteered their time throughout the year. It was a real pleasure meeting and working with you.

Recruitment and Retention – Jeri Joy

Recruitment is a primary focus for AAHA. In addition to the strategies used in previous years, new strategies were implemented to varying degrees of success to get the word out about Anoka hockey.
One of our biggest successes was our Try Hockey For Free sessions offered in July.The cost of this program was paid for through a grant. Many of these skaters continued on to our Mini-Cyclone and/or Mite program. We had over 80 registered skaters for our Mini-Cyclone program and handed out 50+ sets of equipment. We also received equipment from Total Hockey through a grant. I would like to thank Rob Savini for being the on-ice coordinator for our Mini-Cyclone program.
2017-2018 Recruitment strategies:
Recruitment StrategiesRecommendation
-Yard signs throughout AR community continue
-Strategically placed banners in high traffic areas continue
-Free registration to first year mites continue
-Free equipment package to first year mites
And Mini-Cyclones ($100 deposit) continue
-Free Mini-Cyclone program for beginning skaters continue
-Applied for grants for more equipment continue
-Try Hockey For Free Fliers distributed to schools in March continue
-Try Hockey For Free sessions in July continue
-Try Hockey For Free session in November continue
-2 and 2 Challenge continue
-Spring Mini-Cyclone Powerskating continue

Youth Travelling Directors Report

Overall we think the Youth Travelling teams had a successful year. Although there are many ways that a successful season can be measured, the most important to us is player development. We feel we made significant progress in the area of player development this year. I think we also fared well in the District play at most levels. We strive to have our teams play at the right level because we feel that is where they have the best opportunity for improving and developing as a hockey players. We feel the coaches did an amazing job this year coaching our hockey players up. Thank you to all the Coaches, Managers, and Parents that contributed to a successful season.

Record Summary

Bantam A
District 10 - 4th out of 10 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 9 Losses: 8 Ties: 1 / Peewee B2 White
District 10 - 11th out of 18 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 5 Losses: 10 Ties: 2
Bantam B1 - Regional Tournament Qualifier
District 10 - 5th out of 10 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 3-1 (D10 3rd Seed)
Regional Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 7 Losses: 4 Ties: 7 / Squirt A
District 10 - 9th out of 10 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-1
Wins: 2 Losses: 13 Ties: 1
Bantam B2
District 10 - 10th out of 14 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 9 Losses: 8 Ties: 1 / Squirt B1
District 10 - 18th out of 18 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 0-2
Wins: 1 Losses: 16 Ties: 0
Peewee A - Regional Tournament Qualifier
District 10 - 3rd out of 11 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 3-1 (D10 2nd Place)
Regional Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 16 Losses: 4 / Squirt B2
District 10 - 9th out of 16 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-1
Wins: 7 Losses: 7 Ties: 1
Peewee B1
District 10 - 2nd out of 7 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 15 Losses: 3 Ties: 1 / Squirt C
District 10 - 8th out of 11 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-1
Wins: 4 Losses: 15 Ties: 1
Peewee B2 Maroon
District 10 - 6th out of 18 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-1
Wins: 11 Losses: 5 Ties: 1

Girls Travelling Directors Report (Ryan Beaver)

We enjoyed another great year with the Anoka/Rogers Co-op. With every additional year we have under the Co-op we think that the Girls build stronger friendships which makes them better teammates. We think the Parents also gain more familiarity with each other which is important for Hockey Parents, we all know how much time they spend together. We can confidently say that all of the teams had successful seasons. We feel really good about the coaching all of these Girls received this year which has contributed to their player development. We had a wide range of training offered to the Girls this year. We had Read & React, Mira, Power Skating and the important development of the on ice practices with their Coaches. We also brought in St. Francis players this year at the U12 level which I think was beneficial to both programs. Thanks to all the Coaches, Managers, and Parents on making this a great season.

Record Summary

U12A
District 10 - 4th out of 7 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 2-2
Wins: 9 Losses: 5 Ties: 4
U12B Black
District 10 - 7th out of 9 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 3 Losses: 9 Ties: 4
U12B White
District 10 - 8th out of 9 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 1-2
Wins: 1 Losses: 10 Ties: 5
U10 A
District 10 - 6th out of 9 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 3-1 (Third Place Finish)
Wins: 8 Losses: 7 Ties: 1
U10B Blue
District 10 - 4th out of 7 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 2-1
Wins: 12 Losses: 4 Ties: 4
U10B Maroon
District 10 - 2nd out of 8 Teams
District 10 Tournament Record: 2-1
Wins: 12 Losses: 5 Ties: 4

Charitable Gambling – Jeff Zwerdling

April 1, 2017 to February 28, 2018

NOTE: This is not the final year-end report since we are missing this month.

All figures are for 11 months (updated3/11/18)

Gross receipts / $5,467,036.00
Prizes paid out / $4,665,600.00
Net receipts / $801,436.00
State of MN combined receipt taxes paid*** / $209,117.00
Ice & Equipment (April 1, 2016- Feb 28, 2018) / $222,356.18
Annual expenses / $328,383.48
Net profit / $41,579.34
Payout % for Pull-tabs, Meat Raffle, Tri Wheel and Bingo / 85.34%
March 1, 2018 Checkbook Balance / $95,962.50
Total of all program expenditures since April 2002 / $2,357,450.28
March 1, 2018 Calendar Raffle Checkbook / $32,552.54
2018 Calendar prizes yet to be paid / $12,070.00

The Anoka Board of Directors authorized all payments as required by the State of Minnesota.