Happy New Year everybody!

We have several changes in January:

First off, Saturday’s games @ Champlin Park are 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The poster schedule has them at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. We’ll take both teams over – and return – on one bus. We’ll do this a couple of other times this month. Saturday’s bus time is 3:30 p.m.

On Saturday Jan. 17 we’re setting up JV and Varsity outdoor games vs. St. Paul United at Sibley Park in South Minneapolis. We’ll try to get the details ironed out in the next week. At this point we’re planning on the JV game starting in the 11:00-noon range and the Varsity game at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we’ll have a great day at Sibley.

Tuesday Jan. 20 - JV will play South St. Paul at 4:00 p.m. at VMIA.

Saturday Jan. 24 - games @ Breck are at 3:00p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Both teams have a lot of games left to play in the season. This second half should be a lot of fun and go pretty quickly. Players need to make sure their schoolwork is taken care of during this busy part of the season. There are several days off on the schedule for both teams–players need to use these as best they can to rest, get away from the game and make sure they attend to their academic responsibilities.

Finally, both teams played some exciting hockey in Austin this past week. Well done ladies, it was fun to be a part of. Thank you for your behavior off the ice too, I think over the years we’ve become favorites of the folks down there and it’s because of the way we have conducted ourselves during games, in the stands, in the hotel and Steve’s Pizza, of course. Thank you to the parents who came down and supported the teams as well.

John Wareham