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2020-2021 Season Registration is OPEN!!
It's time to register for the 2020-2021 season. Please follow the link above to register.
All players need to be registered before they can begin participating in ABYHA activities.
ABYHA 2020/21 Season - COVID Impact, Resources, Protocols
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2020-2021 Learn to Skate and Learn to Play
The 2020-21 hockey season is a challenging one on multiple fronts. Health concerns are the top priority, and as such the maximum number of skaters that can share the ice has been reduced by the local Board of Health. Reducing the number of skaters on the ice creates an ice time shortage that ABYHA must deal with across the full program.
ABYHA’s Learn to Play and Learn to Skate programs have thrived based on a financial model where we are able to provide a great experience for our younger skaters at a low cost by maximizing ice time utilization. This is not possible in the current environment without making some adjustments to our beginner programs.
Learn to Skate (LTS)
To ensure we can help usher in a new group of strong skaters into the game of hockey and hopefully our ABYHA program, we’ve decided to partner with our friends at the Nashoba Skating school for Learn to Skate lessons. For the past two seasons we’ve had great success with the skating school instructors teaching our ABYHA Learn to Skate.
While many of the Nashoba skating instructors come from a figure skating background, they have expertise in all the required hockey skating skills. The Nashoba LTS program follows the national “Learn to Skate USA” curriculum, which is endorsed by USA Hockey for those who want to eventually become hockey players.
This year we’ll increase this partnership and will be referring our “future hockey players” to them directly for their LTS program. Those interested in Learn to Skate are recommended to get more info and register via the Nashoba website, https://skatenashoba.com/pages/skatingclasses.learntoskate.
Learn to Play (LTP)
We are committed to offering an LTP program this year, but will need to delay the program’s start until December. We do appreciate your patience as we figure out what this program will look like this season and want to make sure we’re able to deliver a fantastic experience for kids who are interested in learning to play hockey.
More information to follow on our website, www.abyha.org as the details are worked out.
Welcome
Founded in 1970, the Acton-Boxboro Youth Hockey Association serves boys and girls in the towns of Acton, Boxboro, Harvard, and Bolton Massachusetts. Our home rink is the Nashoba Valley Olympia on Route 111 in Boxboro (directions). Our teams play in the Valley League, and our girls team play in the Middlesex Yankee Conference.
We have teams from the Mite to Midget level, Girls teams combined with Concord Carlisle Youth Hockey, and a learn to skate program with six intramural learn to play ("Mosquito") teams. We have a long, proud heritage. Our program is based upon the principle of making our children's hockey experience as enjoyable as possible, with a strong emphasis on skating and skills development and having fun with hockey. Some of our players have graduated to the National Hockey League, and others have played for their high school and college teams.
