Category Archives: High School
Tahoe Hockey Academy ‘ecstatic’ to get season started
October 31st, 2016After months and months of planning, the doors finally opened at Tahoe Hockey Academy last month, and things finally started to seem real when the academy played its first games in late September. Donning its purple and white uniforms for the first time, the team traveled to Winnipeg the last weekend in September and opened…
From the floor to STAPLES Center, Royals find success
October 26th, 2016It was déjà vu for the Santa Barbara Royals on Sept. 24: a shutout win versus the Kern County Knights. While this one was not at the STAPLES Center — the home of the Los Angeles Kings, who administer the 10-team Los Angeles Kings High School Hockey League (LAKHSHL) — Santa Barbara’s 5–0 regular-season home…
Class finally in session at the Tahoe Hockey Academy
September 28th, 2016The date of Sept. 12 will mark an important day in Tahoe Hockey Academy’s history. After years of conceptualizing and months of planning, the academy will officially open to its first class of student-athletes. Academic lesson plans have been prepared, games have been scheduled, and the hundreds of other details have been put in place…
LAKHSHL growing, expanding for ‘16-17 high school season
August 23rd, 2016The L.A. Kings High School Hockey League (LAKHSHL) may have just finished its inaugural season, but that doesn’t mean the league isn’t already looking forward. The Kings league will expand for the 2016-17 season, as it plans to add seven new teams to the eight it had in its inaugural season – two varsity squads…
Tahoe Hockey Academy gaining steam toward late summer opening
August 9th, 2016It’s been years in the making, and now it’s down to the final weeks. Later this month, the Tahoe Hockey Academy will officially open its doors for the first time, and the group of men behind organizing California’s first hockey boarding school couldn’t be more ready. The excitement is palpable in Tahoe, and the momentum…
Academics a major emphasis at new Tahoe Hockey Academy
June 16th, 2016When the Tahoe Hockey Academy opens its doors in August for the 2016-17 school year and its inaugural class first sets foot on the campus, its student-athletes will find that things are quite a bit different than what they might be used to from an academic standpoint. Students won’t trudge off to class and sit…
Tahoe Hockey Academy set to bring new model to Western U.S.
June 3rd, 2016If starting a boarding school for hockey players from the ground up seems like a daunting prospect, consider just how much more difficult it might be to do so in an area of the country where it has never been done before and the concept is a foreign one to most of the hockey community….
America’s Showcase turns rivalries to ‘band of brothers’
June 2nd, 2016The moment that a kid laces up their skates for the first time, they have started down a path toward personal milestones. From Squirt to Pee Wee and from Bantam to Midget, each level serves as a graduation – a sign that the player has chosen to stick with the sport and has fulfilled all…
JSerra, OLu up compete level at high school nationals
May 18th, 2016When the playoffs come around, the pressure is on, a concept not lost among California’s representatives in the USA Hockey High School National Championships in March in Reston, Va. JSerra and Orange Lutheran had the experience of reaching this stage in recent years, and after a fight through the California Amateur Hockey Association state tournament,…
Santa Barbara Royals capture first LAKHSHL championship
April 27th, 2016March 19 was without a doubt a special day for the L.A. Kings High School Hockey League, as it crowned its first champion, handed out league awards and capped off a stellar inaugural season. The Santa Barbara Royals skated to a 4-0 victory over the Kern County Knights in the league’s first championship game, contested…