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The Hampton Roads Youth Hockey Association, the original youth hockey organization in Hampton Roads, was formed in the early 80's.  While very small to start, the originators slowly built the association and skated where they could find ice.  In the late 80's, according to local lore, five families ponied up their houses to get a mortgage and convert the building at 4915 Broad St into an ice rink.  It had previously been a roller rink and earlier some some of storage building. Much of this history had been passed down by members and there was some question about how valid it was.  One day, during the recent remodeling project, one of the orginal members of that group stopped by the rink and validated the story.  It was a great afternoon having him describe what they went through to establish youth hockey in the area.  He was also very helpful in describing what we would find as we melted the ice and started to excavate. For example, we did not know that there were two asphalt floors under the ice surface.  We thought there was only one under the sand and that knowledge helped us is preparing differently.  He told us about the old boards and plexiglass that they had purchased used as well as the old ice mat system.  One big mistake he acknowledged is not putting in a heating system under the ice surface to prevent perma frost under the ice-which we discovered during the renovation.

HRYHA grew under the original leadership but started to decline in the late 90's.  Membership fell dramatically to the point that there was only about 30 youth players at Iceland.  In the late 90's, the Association started to slowly rebound.  With the addition of Chilled Ponds in Chesapeake and IcePlex in Newport News, the youth hockey population started to grow but not fast enough to support 3 separate house organizations.  In 1999, the three groups formed up the SVYHL (Southern Virginia Youth Hockey league) and house games were played between the three groups.  Around 2002, Chilled Ponds took a differnent direction and that left HRYHA and PYHA (Peninsula Youth Hockey Association).  The league was reformed into the EVHL and continues today with house games played between both groups and Select teams formed up with players from both association. In the past HRYHA has had both Travel and House programs.  Years ago, the decision was to forego Travel and focus on the developmental House program.  HRYHA adheres to the USA Hockey ADM model which promotes skill development and training.

The House season runs from September to February, consisting of approximately 36 practices and up to 17 House games with the PYHA.  This is the most cost effective with maximum amount of ice time of any program in our region!  We believe that our players need to be on the ice to learn the skills needed to excel and enjoy what we feel is one of the best sports for all around athletic ability.

You can find information at  www.hryha.com


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