ACHA Showcase 2024

 

Do you want to play hockey at a prestigious prep school or university in the USA or Canada?

(Prep - Varsity, NAHL, NCAA, ACHA)

Prospective student-athletes will play three (3) games as well as one (1) practice run by

ACHA coaches. ACHA coaches will also be coaching on the benches and communicating

directly with prospects during the games.

Date: April 17-23, 2024

Place: Middletown, New Jersey, USA

Age: born 2004 - 2008 student-athletes

 

The ACHA has partnered with Capper Hockey Services to plan and develop the ACHA

Prospect Showcase Series and will be joined by many of the 475-plus ACHA college hockey

programs to conduct each event. The ACHA Prospect Showcase Series “weekend experience”

at each site will consist of:

 

• Competitive hockey

• Ladder of hockey development options

• Education of college hockey landscape

• Academic preparation for college hockey

• Exposure to coaches from all 5 divisions of ACHA hockey

 

Expect lessons, seminars, and meetings with coaches, clubs, and some owners and

management of these competitions.

 

PROGRAM:

April 17, 2024

• Arrival in Newark/NJ and transfer to the hotel/rink

• 7 pm Evening practice

• Welcome speech

 

April 18, 2024

• Tour of Choate Rosemary Hall and Yale/QU campus, athletic facilities, ice rink and locker rooms and

short meeting with the coach/university representative

• 7 pm Evening practice

 

April 19, 2024

• Tour of Berkshire School campus, athletic facilities, ice rink and locker rooms and 

short meeting with the coach/university representative

• Practice under the guidance of university coaches

• Lecture of junior, prep/varsity coaches (NAHL, PREP, USHL, etc.)

 

April 20, 2024

• 2x Games in front of scouts and coaches of junior and university teams

• ACHA, NCAA coaches lecture

 

April 21, 2024

• 1x Game in front of scouts and coaches of junior and university teams

• NAHL Lecture: Craig Barnett - Executive Director at American Collegiate Hockey

Association (ACHA) | Director of NCAA Compliance & Education at NAHL

 

April 22, 2024

• Tour of Trinity-Pawling School campus, athletic facilities, ice rink and locker rooms and

short meeting with the coach/school representative, afternoon practice

 

April 23, 2024

• Transfer to the airport and flight back to the EU

 

Price includes:

• Hotel double bed

• Breakfast in the hotel

• Lunch

• Dinner

• Snacks and drinks on the rink

• Registration fee

• Jersey, socks

• Transportation from/to airport, hotel, rink, tours

• Education of college hockey landscape

• Academic preparation for college hockey

• WDSG Staff

 

Price:

• Player - $1,950 (price does NOT include flight ticket)

 

Our mission is to guide players and families along the exciting path of hockey development by

presenting a wide array of options and opportunities.

 

*Each player must be insured with additional travel insurance

*Each player or parent must obtain an ESTA (travel visa)

*Program can be slightly changed

 

Contact a registration:

Registration via email or online through our Questionnaire.

Registration deadline: 31/3/2024

 

Milan Vodicka, MBA – Founder and Family Advisor

phone: +420 604 271 284

email: vodicka.milan@wdsg.eu

 

Lukas Martinka - Family Advisor

phone: +421 902 439 577

email: lukasmartinka@hotmail.com

 

Links:

https://www.wdsg.eu

https://www.achahockey.org