BGHC HOUSE LEAGUE PROGRAM 2024-25
General
Information
The BGHC
offers a house league program to girls aged 4 through 19. This year, the season begins with House League Assessment Skates and a House League Day in September where players pick up jerseys and meet the coach. Practices and games will begin later in September and culminates in late March/early April with a House League
Championship weekend in which all teams participate and all girls leave
with a medal.
Girls with no hockey experience are welcome at any stage in our program.
House league teams are always on the ice
with another team, whether it be a
practice or a game. There is an attempt at approximately one practice
and one game per week for age groups up to and including U15. Our U18 girls do not practice, but rather play
two times every week. This excludes holiday
breaks and weekends where teams are
participating in tournaments.
Our house league program is focused on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday as this
is when the BGHC has the vast majority of its ice - which is allocated to us
by the City of Burlington. Girls at the U11-U13 age division do have occasional
6 AM practices.
For registration, please go to our
Registration page where you
will find more details about the registration process, deadlines, fees and
payment options.
AGE CATEGORIES
(designated by birth year)
U11- 2014 and 2015
U13- 2012 and 2013
U15 - 2010 and 2011
U18- 2007, 2008 and 2009
EQUIPMENT REQUIRED
The BGHC supplies each house league
player with a house league jersey and
socks. Goalie equipment can be provided on loan for the season if required.
Parents need to provide:
- CSA approved helmet with full face cage or shield
- Neck Guard (BNQ certified)
- Mouth guard(optional, strongly recommended)
- Shoulder Pads
- Elbow Pads
- Jill
- Garter Belt/Shorts with Velcro (to hold up socks)
- Hockey Pants
- Shin Guard
- Skates
- Gloves
- Stick
Other equipment to consider:
- Hockey Bag
- Stick tape
- Sock tape
- Pony tail elastics or head scarf
- Light long sleeved tshirt and pants to wear underneath equipment
SPECIFICS
Girls can join the house league program at any age and with any amount of
hockey experience. No prior skating experience is
required.
The number of teams each season depends on registration. We anticipate four teams at U9, six teams at each of U11, U13, U15 and U18.
Girls are placed on teams based on prior season coach ratings together
with NEW player ratings assigned during "Back-to-Hockey" days in September. The goal is to achieve balanced teams while also honoring,
to the extent possible, "Friend Requests" for 1 friend per girl ONLY IF that
request is reciprocated. We do not entertain requests for coaches.
Friend requests are made during the online registration process.
ASSESSMENT DATES/TIMES
U11 -TBD
U15 -TBD
U9 -TBD
U13 -TBD
FEES FOR THE 2024-25 SEASON
|
Age Category
|
Regular Fee
|
Early Bird
|
|
U18
|
$950
|
$900
|
|
U15
|
$800
|
$750
|
|
U13
|
$800
|
$750
|
|
U11
|
$800
|
$750
|
|
U9
|
$750
|
$700
|
Games and practices are held in
Burlington
at:
(click for location)
Aldershot Arena
Appleby Ice Centre
Central Recreation Centre
Mainway Recreation Centre
Mountainside Recreation Centre
Nelson Recreation Centre
The girls will typically practice once a
week on shared ice with another
team from their division and play a game once a week. There are weeks
where our ice is not available due to other associations holding
tournaments. In these weeks, there will be no practices and/or no
games depending on what ice is available to us. Our house league teams
will participate in tournaments as well. Practices and/or games
otherwise scheduled for weekends when a tournament is booked may or may not
be made up depending on available ice.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR THE 2024-25 SEASON
U9
Practices are tentatively scheduled for Saturday morning. Games are tentatively scheduled for Sunday mornings
U11
Practices are tentatively scheduled for Friday evenings with a 6am Friday practice once per month. Games are Sunday morning.
U13
Practices are tentatively scheduled for Friday evenings with a 6am Friday practice once per month. Games are Saturday morning.
U15
Practices are tentatively scheduled for Friday evenings. Games are Saturday morning.
U18
U18 House League plays twice per week. Games are tentatively scheduled Tuesday 8 or 9pm as well as Sunday 4 or 5pm.
NOTES
1. Ice days and/or times for
the
first few weeks may be inconsistent with the rest of the season as certain arenas open later
than others.
2. WHY 6 AM ICE
TIMES? There is no other ice available to fit our programming if we
do
not use these ice times. We are required, by contract with the City of
Burlington, to purchase a minimum number of hours of ice and there is not
sufficient ice pad inventory in Burlington to allow all of those hours to be
in the evenings. All other Youth ice users in Burlington also use
ice at 6 AM for their programs. This is standard throughout
hockey in general. The same reasoning applies as to WHY 5 PM ICE TIMES? and WHY LATE EVENING ICE
TIMES?. With the number of hours of ice available in Burlington and the
number of Ice Users, demand exceeds availability. Therefore, all ice
users receive a share of all ice times, including "desirable" and "less
desirable" times. We all have frequent 6 AM, 5 PM and late evening
weekday ice. Compared to many other municipalities, our ice times are
in fact far more reasonable. In many municipalities, teams get much
less ice overall or settle for ice at 10 PM or even later at ages as young
as U13.
3. U18 house league will play 2 games every week this year.
BREAKS
At the moment it is planned that there
will
be no hockey at the following
times. This is subject to review as the season approaches.
-
Thanksgiving Weekend
-
Christmas break - HL programming to resume the last weekend of Christmas Break
-
March Break
HOUSE
LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND
This is scheduled for the last weekend of March and will be a 2-day event
with all teams playing Saturday and the "semi-final" winners advancing to
GOLD MEDAL games on Sunday.
REFUND POLICY – 2024-2025 Season
Once registered for House League and Rep teams, members have 24 hours to request a refund by email ([email protected]) if they no longer wish to participate. For House League and the Rep program, there will be a $100 administrative fee per withdrawing player if a request is submitted within 24 hours of registration. No refunds will be administered after 24 hours from the time of registration unless the 2023-2024 season ends prematurely due to unforeseen circumstances.
PAYMENT
The BGHC only accepts credit card payments for all registrations. This allows any refunds to be issued in an expedited manner. Payments will be made through the RAMP registration system.