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2011 WPIHA PrizeGiving
30 November 2011

As you can see on the left hand side, the screen shot shows you a quick look at the online hockey shop.

This allows you to click on the kitted player on the left (NHL's Alexander Ovechkin) and depending on the area you have selected, it will then show the equipment that is for sale. Hope that this feature offers all those in the local sport to buy and sell hockey kit as needed.

To view the online shop click here (it will open in a new window) and to sell your kit click here (to email your equipment list for sale)

 
2011 WPIHA PrizeGiving
10 November 2011

As the 2011 season draws to a close, and with a rather exciting year closely behind us with Cape Town hosting the IIHF World Championships and "our boys" doing us proud both at U18 and Senior level, the ladies touring at their World Champs and all the juniors that are fast growing up into skilled stars on the ice,

this year-end function is rather a crowd pleaser and we hope to see all players, parents and friends at this event.

Taking place this coming November 26th, at The Club House (Intake Island, Century City) with the "junior" PG at 3pm and the "intermediate, ladies and senior" PG from 6pm.

Hope to see you all there!

 
SA Mens National Champs
9 September 2011

With 3 weeks to go, everyone is getting eager to see the commencement of the first game, here is some information about the upcoming competition:

Official Poster: Viewable on the left, will be posted on lamp-posts thanks to our sponsor "The City of Cape Town" and also visible at Computicket outlets and at the Grand West arena.

Computicket: Tickets will be available via Computicket at a cost of R20 for Under16's and R30 for adults.

Bar Facilities: During the tournament, the bar area will be open to guests.

The Lime Light: Photographers will be taking pics of provincial and national stars.

WP New Uniform: Look forward to the unveiling to the new WP ice hockey kit.

Opening ceremony: Sunday morning at 9am will be the opening ceremony along with a showcase of WP development hockey and skills by assistant coach, Gareth Millar and Junior league players.

Opening game: This game will take place at Grand West between WP A & WP B on Monday 19th September at 8pm.

 
Provisional Schedule for upcoming Senior Nationals
29 August 2011
WP will be hosting the SA Senior National Championship this year from the 25 to the 26th Sept at the Ice Station at GrandWest. The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sunday 25th August
06:30
 WP (B) vs Gauteng (A)
 
09:00
 Opening Ceremony
 
09:30
 WP (A) vs Gauteng (B)
 
18:00
 WP (B) vs Gauteng B
 
20:30
WP(A) vs Gauteng A
Monday 26th August
06:00 - 09:00
Practice if required
 
18:30
 3rd place play-offs
 
20:30
 Finals
 
21:45
 Prize-giving
 
Taxi Radio carries ice hockey in Cape Town
11 August 2011

"The Taxi" aka Taxi Radio, gets onboard with local ice hockey in Cape Town and keeps up to date with the scores, players and exciting news from the Playoffs Series. Presenter and South African Rugby Star Egon Seconds hosts the show along with Eric Allan on Monday's from 2-3pm where they often interview various players and let their listeners know whats happening in the Cape Town World of Ice Hockey.

You can show your support and tune into Taxi Radio either via webstreaming or using your Blackberry. Click here to view The Taxi Radio website and start listening now.

 
WP u18 Squad Announced
20 June 2011
Western Province Ice Hockey Association has the pleasure of announcing the Provincial U18 Ice Hocket Team for the 2011 Inter-Provincial Tournament, which will take place in Cape Town, Grand West, from 29 to the 30 June 2011.

The team is as follows:

Britz, Jean-Paul
Cackett, Shane
Dekker, Stephen
Fourie, Ryan
Knerlick, Michael
Krotz, Wesley
Kuhn, Timothy
Marrow, Keenan
Munien, Yureshan
Naiker, Levashan
Nebe, Jack (Goalie)
Nelson, Charles (Goalie)
Obery, Alex
Stringer, Luke
Von Blottnitz, Christopher
Young, Rueben

The team manager is Toni Stringer, and the coach is Ronnie Wood.

Congratulations to all the players on their selection to the Team, we are sure that you will do us proud.
 
2011 Committee
2 June 2011

The 2011 committee has been selected and announced after the Sepcial General Meeting was held this past week:

1. President: Faldi Samaai
2. Vice President: Detlev Meyer
3. Treasurer: Brendon Stevens
4. General Secretary: Toni Stringer
5. Women in Sport: Marina Louw
6. Development Facilitator: Madeline Magmoed
7. Marketing: Salama Khan

Jerry Stevens and Hammy Naiker had agreed to be co-opted onto the committee.
 
May - June Ice Times
26 May 2011
For a complete ice time schedule please click here.
 
Ice Times - update
4 April 2011
Please note that there will not be any practice until further notice due to the school holidays and the Senior Championship the following week. The Senior Div 111 Championship takes place from the 11 April - 17 April. Please support your National team. Tickets are available from Computicket.
 
Exhibition Games this weekend
16 Feb 2011

Sunday 20th and Monday 21st will see the top senior players in the country go head to head in a 2-practice - 2-game final selection process under the watchful eye of head coach Ronnie Wood.

The main events of this weekend if the 2 exhibition games taking place on the Sunday and Monday night. Please see the below poster for event details:

 
 
Newsletter 1 - 2011 Season
26 Jan 2011
Compliments of the season to you and we hope your 2011 is a good one.

As you know our Seniors, Ladies and U18 National teams are all starting/and or continuing their training for the World Championships in South Africa, Iceland, and Mexico City respectively.  We wish all our National teams good luck with their training  over the next couple of months.

The exco committee has been extremely busy with preparations for the IIHF Senior Championships which we are hosting in Cape Town at our very own Rink at Grand West.  We will be appealing to members for support and help over the next few months.  We do need assistance to make this a very well run tournament.

One of our targets for 2010/2011 is to promote and develop Ice Hockey at root level to ensure that there are sufficient youngsters entering the sport.

Part of our promotion started during the December school holidays, a recruitment drive and takes place this Sunday  morning the 30th Jan at 08h30 for an hour.  3 of our U18’s have been recruiting possible hockey players and there will be an open Sunday for these recruits to attend a hockey lesson.  Boot hire will be open for these kids. Thanks to you Toni Stringer and her team.

Next  drive will be Sunday the 6th Feb at 08h30, whereby we appeal to junior players (members) to bring along a friend or relative that would be interested and committed in playing ice hockey - we would appreciate parents assisting their children in this regard.
We invite all juniors to bring along their friends/relatives to the ice Rink.  Once again boot hire will be open for them to get skates and we will provide whatever equipment we can for them. So if you have spare equipment at home and are bringing a friend or relative, please bring along your spare equipment for them. Thanks Hammy and team.....

The next event will be Monday 7th Feb, so watch this space....... Madeline and Deen are working on this project of targeting schools close to the rink.  This will be an exhibition game featuring all National squad players and International players.  These school kids will be invited to attend this match by way of complimentary entry.

Our AGM will be held on the 13th February at 09h00 in the upstairs boardroom.  Please make an effort to attend and there will be practice this week for all members although official registration will be on Sunday the 20th February.  All registration forms will be on the website for downloading.  Please give us a week to change the dates on the forms before downloading.

We look forward to a great year of hockey.
 
SA Ladies Team Announced

The South African Ice Hockey Association has the pleasure of announcing the National Women's Ice Hockey Team for the 2011 IIHF World Championships, Div IV, which will take place in Iceland from 27th March to the 1st April 2011.

The South African Women's Team is as follows:

Goaltenders:
Shaylene Swanepoel
Sandy Mc Clurg

Players:
Robyn Adamson
Bianca Birrell
Sarah Booysen
Sabrina Bundock
Samanthan Jansen
Debbie Mc Loughlin
Laura-Ann Murphy
Donne Oxenham
Kirsten Oxenham
Dalene Rhode
Fyona Shannon
Nadine Shefield
Kristyn Swanepoel
Simone Van Wyk
Dominique Verwey
Jadi Wessels

The team manager is Wendy Horne and coach is Kieren Edge.

Please note that the decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Congratulations to all the players and Officials on their selection to the Team, we are sure that you will all do us and South Africa proud.

Yours in Ice Hockey,
Shane Marsh
President
South African Ice Hockey Association
 
Under 18 Training Camp
The under 18 national squad are meeting in Cape Town during December for their official training camp. This camp will give the coaching staff ample time to see each athlete on the ice and off, and be able to make their final selection for the final squad to travel to Mexico City to represent their coutry in the IIHF 2011 tournament.
 
January 2011 - Senior SA

The cream of the crop are commencing their training camps with final selections taking place at the end of January. Head coach Ronnie Wood will be putting the massive squad through a vigorous month-long training camp and will be announcing the final team list + 2 to train together for the remainder of the weeks leading up until their tournament taking place in the Mothercity.

The team will be touring to Germany approximately 3 weeks prior for final preperation before their battle against Israel in the opening game at the Grand West arena. More on this to come...

 
Exhibition Game 1 - 2011
With preperation for the IIHF World Championships taking place at Grand West, WPIHA will be hosting the first of many exhibition games for the 2011 season. This first game will showcase players from the national team in both the seniors and under 18 division. As always these games are a crowd pleaser and not to be missed. More on this opening game to be posted.
 
14 December 2010 - Prize giving
Please remember to get your tickets for Prize Giving from Toni Stringer – stringert@cput.ac.za urgently.  We need to confirm numbers asap.  You can purchase your ticket from the door but we do need to know that you are coming for catering purposes.  This is the last event for the year and we have many trophies and prizes to hand out for all age groups.  Please make the effort.

Prize giving will be at the Royal Cape Yacht club, time 18h30 for 19h00.  Please bring your tickets to the door or proof of payment to get in.  We look forward to seeing everyone there.