Welcome to the CHAMPS program

Parent and Athlete Letter

Dear Parents and Athletes,

SCAHA would like invite you to participate in a program established last year called CHAMPS (California Hockey Athletes Making Progress Scholastically) and it is designed to encourage student athletes to maintain good grades while participating in youth hockey and to reward their performance.

With the chance of sports scholarships extremely slim, life lessons and lifetime memories become the priorities in all youth sporting activities.

California Hockey Athletes Making Progress Scholastically (CHAMPS) was established by the Anaheim Ducks and LA Kings in conjunction with SCAHA to encourage, support and reward youth hockey players who commit themselves to their schoolwork while enjoying the sport of hockey.

It is the goal of the California Hockey Athletes Making Progress Scholastically (CHAMPS), SCAHA, the Anaheim Ducks and LA Kings to significantly increase awareness among youth hockey players that performance in the classroom has an equal if not more important part in life than performance on the ice. It is also a stated goal of CHAMPS to generate a lasting, measurable impact on higher achievement in the classroom.

Each SCAHA member club is encouraged to join in our effort to reward our hard working hockey players both on and off the ice. Participants will receive patches to wear on their team jerseys, tickets to either the Anaheim Ducks or LA Kings game, and be entered into an opportunity drawing for prizes and gift certificates along with a certificate presented at an awards ceremony.

Your team manager will have information from your club CHAMPS coordinator and all that is required from you and your player is a record of last year’s report card. This will be used to determine who receives the patch and rewards for the season of 2007-2008.

Please turn in your report card form the prior year to your manager and they will give it to the club CHAMPS coordinator. The due date for report cards is October 15th, 2007. They will input the information and pass it on to the CHAMPS SCAHA coordinator. All information will be kept in the strictest confidence and used to reward those participating in our program. Even if you do not meet the 3.0 requirement, you will be placed in a drawing for participating and during mid terms of the current year, have the ability to turn in your report card again and be entered in to a drawing if you meet the requirement.

If you are interested in being involved in CHAMPS at a club level or SCAHA level, please feel free to contact us thru SCAHA at champs@scaha.com .