Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:30:42 -0400 (EDT) From: bill driscoll Subject: [none] An Open Letter to High School and Jr. High Girls Hockey Players I'd like to introduce myself and an exciting new hockey program specifically for young women. My name is Bill Driscoll, and I am the Director of Hockey and Head Coach for the Killington Mountain Academy Women's Hockey Program. This is a new high-performance, competitive hockey program specifically designed to provide a quality education for a select group of athletes with a strong interest in competing at the highest levels of hockey.=3D20 KMA Women's Hockey will start in the Fall of 1999 at the Killington Mountain School (KMS) in Rutland, Vermont. Though new to hockey, KMS has a rich 25 year history of developing competitive student-athletes and placing them in colleges such as Dartmouth, Middlebury, St. Lawrence, Boston College, UVM, UNH, U Colorado, Colby, Bates and Harvard to name a few. Our goals for the hockey program are similar, and also include creating a path to our national team for a few select young athletes. I have been involved in hockey since I graduated from Colby, and have been coaching for many years at various levels, including USA Hockey Regional Teams and Select Festivals. Currently manyformer players are on rosters of Division I and II college teams, the U.S. National Development Team, Major Junior Teams and many prep schools. I am a USA Hockey Master Level Coach, and co-founder of the Foundation for Hockey Development, with Bill Beaney, Head Coach of Middlebury College. I am committed to teaching the game of hockey and developing young athletes, and recently turned down positions with NHL Teams to launch this special program. Killington Mountain School provides a unique opportunity because it is based on a tutorial program- this has academic and athletic benefits. You attend your local school for the Fall and Spring months. In the =3D46all and Spring, you're at your home school participating in sports, interacting with friends at school and socially, and living with your family. From November to early April, you attend KMS, where all classes follow your home school curriculum. While at Killington Mountain School, you work with the tutorial staff one-on-one in your classes. These teachers often can help in many ways that aren't practical in a class setting, and you can expect to return in the Spring with an academic standing equal to or better than your classmates. This tutorial program opens up tremendous training and competitive advantages in hockey. We train more often and longer each day on the ice than any high school or prep team- up to 2 hours on practice days (usually 4/week), as well as daily physical training and conditioning. Our competition schedule consists of 40-45 games, including six tournaments culminating with the Brampton (Ont.) Women's Tournament. The tutorial program also allows us more freedom to travel so we play the best prep, select and international competition, as well as some college teams. We attend the most competitive tournaments in the U.S. and Canada. As you can see, this program is unique, and combined with our location, affords maximum exposure to college coaches each season. If this sounds like a program that you might be interested in, I would welcome the chance to talk to you. You can call me directly at 802-253-7061, or the school at 802-422-3233. Please keep Killington Mountain School in mind as you search for a means to reach your for your education and athletic goals. I hope to hear from you soon. Good luck and have a great season with =3DABteam=3DBB. Best, Bill Driscoll, Director of Hockey The Foundation for Hockey Development PO Box 1197 3174 Mountain Rd. Stowe VT 05672 802-253-7061 f 253-4214 billdris@fhd.net http://www.fhd.net