2014 Newmarket Ball Hockey Challenge Road to Olympic Gold

Fact: The 2014 Canadian Men's Olympic Gold Medal winning team got together in the off season prior to the Olympics to play ball hockey. This, off season conditioning and 'get to know" your line-mates in- action activity, helped the Canadians to having a dominant tournament, where they lost not one game, and incredibly, allowed only 3 goals against. Some say it was the best performance by a Canadian team ever. I say, Car!

Kids, now is your opportunity to get into the mix and maybe one day becoming an Olympian yourself on Sat March 15 2014, The 10th Annual Friendly Neighbourhood Youth Road Hockey Challenge , Ontario's longest running ball hockey event, to be held this year at  395 Mulock Drive Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, at the town office building and parking lot.

Join in the Fun St Mar 15 395 Mulock 10:30 AM Start

There will be a round robin tourney style games for those aged 7 to 12 and for ages 13 - 18 as well as "pick up game" and activities for all ages  as well as prizes and skills contests. A tennis ball is used for all games only. Free Entry, hot chocolate and nourishment will be available as well for team participants. Hot food and beverages also available to the public provided by Piccola Italia.

Be a Leader! Form a team and you could win a $ Award - The Mike Thornhill Friendship Award

Youths may pre-sign up to ensure team entry or to be placed on a team by emailing their (team) name, contact name / team organizer and phone number to tpeproductions@gmail.com or players can show up the day of the event before 10:30AM Sat March 15 to register or for more or to volunteer or call 289-221-0928 .

All ages pick up games will also be available for anyone to play in all day as well as indoor access for warmth, bathrooms, featured entertainment, and award presentations.

Youth can access more detailed games rules highlights from last year and past event history and pics here.

March Break Free Activity! End Obesity through...

Wow! Talk about working a rough' hood! PACC had to work magic to convince youths to drop their weapons in lieu of hockey sticks for a day! Ha. Getting kids to participate in this day and age of computer games can prove tough as is but with a little assist you can do it!

The "cache"

Neighbourhood kids are seen here preparing for Sat March break end event now held 2014 at Newmarket Town Hall parking lot 395 Mulock Dr!  The Annual Friendly Neighbourhood youth tourney is open to all ages too! 

Skills challenge 10:30 AM Sat Mar 16

"Put the kids back on the streets" - an after school activity - through road hockey beyond this event and help end obesity!

Join TP Saturday Mar 15 2014

Hot food! Hot Chocolate..all free for players! How can you beat that!?




Car!Big thanks to 2013 Sponsor Newmarket Mitsubishi!

these kids were playing with toy guns before our road hockey 'program" got hold... playing with toy guns...rather they aspire to be sports heroes....

RoadHockey Mom

Tourney and pick up games All Free

10:30 AM All Ages Skills Contest  prizes by CanadaT.com


All Ages Pick Up Games. Goes until 5PM

Some of the kids

Bring a stick & join in! 

Or enter a youth team..

Dad has no chance!

Register a team in advance or add yourself to a team 
Call TP @ 289-221-0928 or email  tpeproductions@gmail.com

End Obesity, reduce poverty and restart After-School Activities through Road Hockey!!

Hey whoda' thunk road hockey could be the medicine to sooth what ails society?

Newmarket Community Centre 20010

I previously established it bonds cultures but now that school activities are limited, obesity has become a national problem, and child poverty has not decreased - what to do?
ROAD HOCKEY THAT'S WHAT!
Especially March break when you can  look through your kitchen window and see/know your kid is safe and active.

That was our idea of "after school programs" when I was a kid growing up in Aurora. In fact we used to use Eaton's catalogues tied to our legs for goalie pads we were so poor. Okay so that didn't happen, but to some it was a reality!

Sometimes we'd play on teams for our street (Dunham vs Sunray anyone!?) or neighbourhood or even town, as I recall a bunch of us walking to Newmarket to play one time. But our neighbourhood (Aurora Heights) had some great players not known to the ice game and we were tough to beat no matter who we played or what age our opponents. 

Our cross town rivals were Regency Acres and we'd pull a net across town for it and even George St used to field a good team but we rarely, if ever, lost. One kid as I recall was an amazing road hockey player, the best of us all, and when I asked why he never played ice hockey he'd said it was because he couldn't skate. I'd seen him skate though and thought he wasn't all that bad but had left it at that back then. Years later I now realize he likely couldn't afford to play. His talent would be wasted.

The same guy led our mish-mash neighbourhood team to the local Aurora Community Centre held road hockey tourney where we soundly thrashed the ice league all star team in the finals, a testament to the fact that we could all compete against these so called "all-stars". I remember feeling empowered that day. Confident. Whereas the 'allstars" team had always portrayed an air of smug superiority to the rest of us in their dapper purple team jackets, on this day, it was they who looked away!

Want to relive any of those glory days ? Or come out and watch or play some pick up shinny? Organize a team even or egads challenge another to form and play? 
Your participation level is up to you!

Event:

Newmarket Mitsubishi Friendly Neighbourhood Youth Road hockey Challenge

                             Date: Sat March 16 2013 –       Contact: TPE@ 289-221-0928

                      Location: Newmarket           Community Centre parking lot / Riverwalk   Commons  220 Duncan St

                                  Time: 10:30 am – 5 pm

          Knock out obesity, reduce poverty, restart after-school activities.....through road hockey!?

                                March break & after school activities combine during the Annual (Newmarket Mitsubishi) Friendly Neighbourhood Youth Road hockey Challenge held this year Sat March 16 2013 at Newmarket's Community Centre and Riverwalk Commons (½ block from Main St) and organized in cooperation with the Poverty Action for Change Coalition ( P.A.C.C.) and TPE Productions.

                                Youths up to 18 years can play in the tourney portion from 10:30 am to 5pm and are encouraged to form their own street, school, company or club teams while pick up games for any age will also be held all day as well. The event affords all kids (and some adults!) an opportunity to play friendlies together on a level playing field and boosts confidence and pride. Players and teams are encouraged to hold street and neighbourhood games the week of March break. Challenge someone and you can win an award!

                                   

                               Open stage entertainment will be inside the Community Centre and feature    York Region Hip Hop sensations Khryme Syndicate!

                                  Playing is free and you may enter a team or come as you are!

                                   Free hot chocolate and nourishment provided tourney players with hot          food also available to the public.

                                   

                  Pre-register by emailing your team name and contact info to           tpeproductions@gmail.com or Registration is Sat Mar 16 by 10 AM.

                                  www.povertyacc.com/getinvolved for more or call 289-221-0928.  

                                   

March Break, What to Do in Newmarket New Event Location

Old Poster same message..GAME on!

Having a dilemma about what to do during the March Break? How about taking a walk back in time for a day? Or if you're a teenager a week practicing road hockey until the Sat break ending tourney and event.

Like when I was a kid..in a simpler time, activities meant your mom yelling,  

  "Get out from Underneath my feet!" and you'd reply, " I'm not under your feet" and she'd say, "Get outside and play" and you'd be forced to create something to do. 

Depending on your age, friends, time of year and imagination, you may take a number of options into consideration - like building a snow fort or tree-house, maybe putting on a goofy play to music in a friends backyard or perhaps planning a neighbourhood fundraiser carnival or pick-up soccer or organizing a road hockey game. Sometimes kids would get even more anmbitious and form a team by knocking on friend's doors and seeing how many we could get, then challenging another street or neighbourhood to play.

That's the kind of spirit the annual Friendly Neighbourhood Youth Road hockey Challenge has tried to harness over the past 10 years as we continue to offer youths 13-18 and now 6-12 some free road hockey tourney play as well as pick up for all ages and free hot chocolate and nourishment as well as a chance to compete against their peers - and in recent years added "pick-up" games for all ages.

2005 tourney right on the street!

For 2014 the event will take place at 395 Mulock Dr Newmarket Town Office parking Lot.