September 22, 2002
September 2002 ECRHA Newsletter
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The ECRHA is proud to be supported by
USA Hockey Inline (www.usahockeyinline.com),
Concrete Pond Hockey (www.concretepond.com),
Rocket Hockey (www.rockethockey.com ),
Inline Hockey Central (www.inlinehockeycentral.com),
Togaworld (www.togaworld.com),
Pointstreak Electronic Gamesheet System (www.pointstreak.com)
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IN THIS ISSUE:
ECRHA Season Begins on Long Island
Brian Lutwick Benefit
College vs. Pro
ECRHA Annual Meeting Success
ECRHA Referee Clinic Success
CRHL info
ECRHA Website
Let the Games Begin!
The ECRHA is headed to Long Island for an exclusive featured event Oct 11-13 at Skate Safe of America. 45 College Teams will start the season off in a battle worthy of Pay Per View and ESPN. 70 Hockey games are scheduled in less than 45 hours. Most all games are heavy hitters, including rematches from last season and cross-divisional play of League champions. You DO NOT want to miss this one! Keep your eye on our site for announcements about this event and the schedule of games. You can see all the match ups already on our message board. Admission to this event is PET FOOD for the animals of Little Shelter, a No-Kill animal adoption center in Huntington, Long Island. Please visit www.littleshelter.com. Expect to see puppies and kittens, along with some special guest appearances. WBLI, Long Island's largest radio station, will also be present. The ECRHA thanks the staff of Skate Safe for their overwhelming cooperation. Go here to se! e an incredible view of Skate Safe
Brian Lutwick Benefit
The weekend prior to the ECRHA Featured event, Skate Safe is hosting a benefit fundraiser in honor of Brian Lutwick of Merrick Long Island. Brian, an 18-year-old freshman and avid hockey player was attending Syracuse University and also worked at Skate Safe. After a sudden situation, prayers were answered as Brian received a new heart last week. Brian's father has told me that prognosis is good and doctors think Brian might be back on the surface in 6 months! Brian - You definitely have the heart of a champ! ALL PROCEEDS from this event are being donated. Skate Safe is donating all the rink time and concession sales as well. Please attend and consider making a donation. Also, if you are not an organ donor, please consider and notify a family member or DMV of your intentions.
College Faces off Against Pros & ECRHA Selects Team Announced
The ECRHA Selects Team(s) has been announced. The Selects represent the top players of the Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association. Boston, Northeastern, Rochester, Penn State, Altoona, and more are represented. (The ECRHA Selects Team differs from the ECRHA All Star Team and Team ECRHA.) The New Jersey Riot will face off against the ECRHA Selects at Skate Safe, Long Island, New York, on Saturday, October 12, at 6:30 p.m. It's sure to be a merging of the minds when 'pro' inline hockey and college roller hockey collide for an exhibition game that you won't want to miss. The New Jersey Riot will have to make adjustments to their style since the ECRHA does not promote or permit checking. Rebecca Breitel, President of the ECRHA, had this to say about the game at the Long Island ECRHA Featured Event, "It is only a natural progression of the sport that we cross over in each other's leagues. We already share some of the same players and referees and without this interact! ion, we may never reach any unity..
ECRHA Annual Meeting a Huge Success
Our Annual Meeting held this past month in Allentown, was hugely successful. Thank you to all those who made the trip. With approximately 70 people present we had 95% attendance; which is AMAZING! Without you, this league would not exist. You are the future of roller hockey and should be proud to be the pioneers of this venture. Someday when your kids have full scholarships to play roller hockey and you can see it on TV, you will say "I was there. I built this league!"
ECRHA Referee Clinic a Huge Success
The ECRHA meeting weekend was a busy one. Following the Annual Meeting, the first formal annual College referee clinic was held at Center Circle. 30 Officials from 7 states were present by invite. All Officials were certified to officiate College Roller Hockey and were duel certified by USA Hockey Inline. Thank you to Chris Rabatin, Senior College and ECRHA Head of Officials and William Taggart, USA Hockey Inline's Eastern Region Referee In Chief. Congrats to the officials who made the grade!
CRHL Things
The ECRHA is a proud Member Organization of CRHL and stands behind CRHL as reorganization continues to bring the best programs current and further develop member and university relations. CRHL will start the season off right with the release of a new website shortly. CRHL Nationals will be hosted this year by the ECRHA (April 2003).
ECRHA Message Board and Website
Our Webmaster has returned to school and is experiencing some temporary Internet problems. Please bear with us while the Webmaster works diligently to keep things updated. Things will be back to normal any day now and schedules, press releases, and new interviews in the Locker Room will be posted. With school now back in session, our Message Board is picking up again. Go to www.ecrha.net. There are also some great surveys to take. If you are a current member of the league, a captain, coach, or authorized representative of your club, you MUST access a private message board not visible to the general public. All ECRHA participants can read the MB, but only ACC Reps can post responses. To be granted access to this board, you should send an email to [email protected], state your name, club affiliation, and interest in access. This special ACC Message Board, along with the ECRHA Newsletter, is the lifeline of! our communications; as we are no l
ECRHA is a proud member of the CRHL and USA Hockey Inline. For the best roller hockey site on the Internet, visit www.inlinehockeycentral.com. Property of the ECRHA, it's website, all contents and all publications, may not be duplicated or reprinted without explicit permission from the ECRHA President.
The ECRHA is proud to be supported by
USA Hockey Inline (www.usahockeyinline.com),
Concrete Pond Hockey (www.concretepond.com),
Rocket Hockey (www.rockethockey.com ),
Inline Hockey Central (www.inlinehockeycentral.com),
Togaworld (www.togaworld.com),
Pointstreak Electronic Gamesheet System (www.pointstreak.com)
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IN THIS ISSUE:
ECRHA Season Begins on Long Island
Brian Lutwick Benefit
College vs. Pro
ECRHA Annual Meeting Success
ECRHA Referee Clinic Success
CRHL info
ECRHA Website
Let the Games Begin!
The ECRHA is headed to Long Island for an exclusive featured event Oct 11-13 at Skate Safe of America. 45 College Teams will start the season off in a battle worthy of Pay Per View and ESPN. 70 Hockey games are scheduled in less than 45 hours. Most all games are heavy hitters, including rematches from last season and cross-divisional play of League champions. You DO NOT want to miss this one! Keep your eye on our site for announcements about this event and the schedule of games. You can see all the match ups already on our message board. Admission to this event is PET FOOD for the animals of Little Shelter, a No-Kill animal adoption center in Huntington, Long Island. Please visit www.littleshelter.com. Expect to see puppies and kittens, along with some special guest appearances. WBLI, Long Island's largest radio station, will also be present. The ECRHA thanks the staff of Skate Safe for their overwhelming cooperation. Go here to se! e an incredible view of Skate Safe
Brian Lutwick Benefit
The weekend prior to the ECRHA Featured event, Skate Safe is hosting a benefit fundraiser in honor of Brian Lutwick of Merrick Long Island. Brian, an 18-year-old freshman and avid hockey player was attending Syracuse University and also worked at Skate Safe. After a sudden situation, prayers were answered as Brian received a new heart last week. Brian's father has told me that prognosis is good and doctors think Brian might be back on the surface in 6 months! Brian - You definitely have the heart of a champ! ALL PROCEEDS from this event are being donated. Skate Safe is donating all the rink time and concession sales as well. Please attend and consider making a donation. Also, if you are not an organ donor, please consider and notify a family member or DMV of your intentions.
College Faces off Against Pros & ECRHA Selects Team Announced
The ECRHA Selects Team(s) has been announced. The Selects represent the top players of the Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association. Boston, Northeastern, Rochester, Penn State, Altoona, and more are represented. (The ECRHA Selects Team differs from the ECRHA All Star Team and Team ECRHA.) The New Jersey Riot will face off against the ECRHA Selects at Skate Safe, Long Island, New York, on Saturday, October 12, at 6:30 p.m. It's sure to be a merging of the minds when 'pro' inline hockey and college roller hockey collide for an exhibition game that you won't want to miss. The New Jersey Riot will have to make adjustments to their style since the ECRHA does not promote or permit checking. Rebecca Breitel, President of the ECRHA, had this to say about the game at the Long Island ECRHA Featured Event, "It is only a natural progression of the sport that we cross over in each other's leagues. We already share some of the same players and referees and without this interact! ion, we may never reach any unity..
ECRHA Annual Meeting a Huge Success
Our Annual Meeting held this past month in Allentown, was hugely successful. Thank you to all those who made the trip. With approximately 70 people present we had 95% attendance; which is AMAZING! Without you, this league would not exist. You are the future of roller hockey and should be proud to be the pioneers of this venture. Someday when your kids have full scholarships to play roller hockey and you can see it on TV, you will say "I was there. I built this league!"
ECRHA Referee Clinic a Huge Success
The ECRHA meeting weekend was a busy one. Following the Annual Meeting, the first formal annual College referee clinic was held at Center Circle. 30 Officials from 7 states were present by invite. All Officials were certified to officiate College Roller Hockey and were duel certified by USA Hockey Inline. Thank you to Chris Rabatin, Senior College and ECRHA Head of Officials and William Taggart, USA Hockey Inline's Eastern Region Referee In Chief. Congrats to the officials who made the grade!
CRHL Things
The ECRHA is a proud Member Organization of CRHL and stands behind CRHL as reorganization continues to bring the best programs current and further develop member and university relations. CRHL will start the season off right with the release of a new website shortly. CRHL Nationals will be hosted this year by the ECRHA (April 2003).
ECRHA Message Board and Website
Our Webmaster has returned to school and is experiencing some temporary Internet problems. Please bear with us while the Webmaster works diligently to keep things updated. Things will be back to normal any day now and schedules, press releases, and new interviews in the Locker Room will be posted. With school now back in session, our Message Board is picking up again. Go to www.ecrha.net. There are also some great surveys to take. If you are a current member of the league, a captain, coach, or authorized representative of your club, you MUST access a private message board not visible to the general public. All ECRHA participants can read the MB, but only ACC Reps can post responses. To be granted access to this board, you should send an email to [email protected], state your name, club affiliation, and interest in access. This special ACC Message Board, along with the ECRHA Newsletter, is the lifeline of! our communications; as we are no l
ECRHA is a proud member of the CRHL and USA Hockey Inline. For the best roller hockey site on the Internet, visit www.inlinehockeycentral.com. Property of the ECRHA, it's website, all contents and all publications, may not be duplicated or reprinted without explicit permission from the ECRHA President.