Sample Day at Sylvan Lake / Jasper Hockey School


We have 8 one week sessions in Sylvan Lake and 2 one week sessions in Jasper. Each week we accept 108 students plus goaltenders. (Our student to instructor ratio is 6:1). We take the entire list of students for each week and have it sorted from the youngest person in the camp to the oldest.

Then that list is divided into three groups.

Group A is the youngest students in that week.
Group B is the middle aged students for that week.
Group C is the oldest students for that week.

Then we take each group - Group A, Group B and Group C and divide them by age again from youngest to oldest. We then have three age groups in Groups A, B and C.

The reason that we do this is to keep the students as close to their age group as possible. We feel that students should play within their own age groups and the challenge to the student is not the other players around him/her but the challenge is to focus on the drills and become a better player. The drills are designed so each individual player can improve at their pace so players who are new to hockey learn as much as the more skilled players learn.

When the groups take to the ice we always have a group warm-up and then we do station drills. The youngest students in the group at one station, the middle aged students for that group at another and the oldest students in that group at the third station. Each station is 15 minutes long, so the station drills account for 45 minutes of each ice time. (The goaltenders in that group receive 45 minutes of coaching from the goaltender instructors while the other students are going through their station drills) We conclude the ice sessions with full and half ice drills as a group.

Our afternoon ice sessions include a power skating session and again focus on the station drills (The goaltenders in that group again receive 45 minutes of coaching from the goaltender instructors).

We do try to keep friends or small groups together if there is a special request made but there are no guarantees of that happening especially if the age difference is too much for that particular week. We do however try our best and the majority of the time we are able to accomodate everyone.

Because we have 3 groups there are three different schedules and the students rotate through them during the week. All students are mailed schedules and information packages in June or early July depending on when they are scheduled to attend our sessions.

The following is a typical day:

SCHEDULE 1
On Ice 8:00am-9:15am
Breakfast 9:30am-10:30am
Classroom 10:30am-11:30am
LUNCH 11:30am-12:15pm
On Ice 12:30pm-2:00pm
Physical Education 2:30pm-4:30pm

SCHEDULE 2
On Ice 9:30am-10:45am
Classroom 11:30am-12:15pm
LUNCH 12:15pm-1:00pm
Physical Education 1:00pm-1:45pm
On Ice 2:15pm-3:45pm

SCHEDULE 3
Classroom 9:30am-10:30am
On Ice 11:00am-12:15pm
Lunch= 12:45pm-1:45pm
Physical Education 2:00pm-3:30pm
On Ice 4:00pm-5:30pm

The above chart shows the schedule for the
first day of Camp following Registration Day.
Students rotate through the schedules during the week
so that each group goes through each schedule.

Complete weekly schedules and information packages
are mailed out before the end of June 2008

Sylvan LakeJasper International Summer Hockey Camp
4823 - 48th Street,
Sylvan Lake, AB, Canada T4S 1M6
Phone: 403-887-2575 Fax: 403-887-3450

Website:www.sylvanlakehockey.com
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