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May 10,2011 ECRWSS
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Tri County Record
Raider Youth Ice Hockey Club looks to bolster ranks year-old who has been mends that interested
tices are held at Body it gives them a unique
BY BRENDA MAGUIRE skating with the Raiders parties look into purchas-
The junior Landeen is Zone in Wyomissing. The way to meet friends who
Tri County Record Correspondent since the club started ing used equipment. Pa-
eight-years-old, and has majority of the games are have similar interests as trons ofthe Wyomissing's
them as well as keeps eight years ago. "I wanted
The Twin Valley Ice been playing with the held at Body Zone as Play It Again Sports will
them active. to start playing because
Hockey Club is accepting Raiders for one year. His well, though last season find that they will receive
my dad played in a men's
kids from the age of five favorite drill is shooting the teams traveled to a 10 percent discount if
One of Stein's sons, league, and we started
to 18 who live in the Twin on net. Aston and Pottstown for they are a member of the
Alex, is 10-years-old and skating when we were
Valley School District for matches. Twin Valley club. Fur-
"Hockey is fun. We can has played for the. Raid- really young. It is the fast-
a season that runs from ther, one of the men in-
The coaches focus on ers for three years. He en- est sport on legs, which is
Sept. to March. The work as a team and have volved with the team
building relationships joys .playing with his more fun. It's a fast- keeps used equipment in
Raiders will be holding fun and enjoy hockey," he
within the team and em- friends from school, and paced game and gets the his basement for new
registration on May 21 said.
phasize teamwork on the his favorite position is de- adrenaline pumping." team members who might
from 9 a.m. to 1 'p.m. at
the Wal-Mart in Elver- "I like checking and ice. fense. need help with equip-
The Raiders have a his-
playing around with my
son, and on June 25 from
"A lot of these kids, Stein spoke of the prog- tory of success. The varsi- ment.
9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the friends," said teammate ress of the club, "It start- ty team won the Berks The Raiders will be
Jack Wagner, a 10-year- especially at the younger
Morgantown Library. ed on a pond, Nst kids League Championship holding ice times at
old who has also been levels, they don't know
any of the kids, and by the playing on a pond, and four years in a row from Power Play Rink in Exton
"I think the teamwork playing for the Raiders
end of the season they're they got the idea to go 2003-04 through the so that new players can
and the friendships that for a year.
all best friends and into a tournament in 2006-07 season. The ju- get a chance to skate with
they make on and off the
There are four teams in they're a team," said Brad spring of 2003 as a team. nior varsity squad came in the veteran players. All
ice (are important)," said
Stein, the president of the Then they played in a first in the East Penn levels are encouraged to
Rich Landeen, who will the Twin Valley club: an
club and head coach of spring league that Body Scholastic Hockey attend the ice times
be on the board this year elementary school team
the elementary team. Zone was offering in League in 2009-10, and scheduled in June and
as secretary/ treasurer of (grades K-5) that is no
"When they act like a 2003. They entered into the middle school team July.
the club. "My son, Rylee, checking, a middle school
team and support each the league in fall of was the Berks League
loves the fact that it's a team (grades 6-8) and For more information
other as a team, that's 2003." champion in 2003-04.
team instead of an indi- two high school teams (9- about ice ti.mes, registra-
vidual effort. He'll play 12): Junior Varsity and pretty neat to see." "It's nice to play with Since some hockey tion and the Raiders
his whole life, I think, be- Varsity. For the kids involved in your school buddies," equipment can be expen- hockey club go to
cause he loves that so www.tvicehockey.net.
The Twin Valley prac~ Twin Valley Ice Hockey, said Ian Meers, an 18- sive, the club recom-
much."