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IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES

* The season is underway! Please see the Calendar for each team's events. 

WHO WE ARE

We're a non-profit, volunteer-run organization with one goal: to get your kids on the ice and having fun. The BBYHA ice hockey program serves the city of Bloomington and the surrounding counties of Monroe, Morgan, Lawrence, Owen, and Greene.

We offer directly or partner to offer several hockey experiences:

• House Hockey is for kids who are interested in local-only hockey. Skating experience is helpful but not necessary.
• Hockey initiation is for kids who are just getting started on the ice. Learn to skate and wield a hockey stick at the same time! (Best for kids 6 and under)
• Travel hockey with the Blades is an add-on to our house hockey program and gives kids a bit more time on the ice.

Our mission

We provide an equal opportunity for all children to play hockey in a competitive, organized manner, under the instruction and supervision of qualified coaches, with the goal of developing athletic skills, a sense of citizenship, sportsmanship, and fair play.

Our teams' successes in competitive play come from the community they build in fun, active practices that emphasize team building.

• Our 14-and-under (14U) team won the Buckeye Travel Hockey League (BTHL) regular season championship
• Our 12U team finished second in the BTHL, Lower Division, End of Season Tournament
• Our 10U team finished second in the BTHL, West Division, during the regular season
• Our 8U players fought hard, developed skills, and had a lot of fun all season long.

Our Partners

• All of our coaches and players are registered members of USA Hockey, which focuses on team building, age-appropriate athlete development and good citizenship in addition to hockey skills.
• Together with the City of Bloomington, we sponsor a no-travel house hockey league . All of our 12U/10U/8U travel-team players participate in this house-hockey program so they can get more time on the ice with a larger group of peers.

USA Hockey is concerned with locker room activities between minor players, locker room activities between minor players and adult players, adults being alone with individual minor players in locker rooms, and non-official or non-related adults having unsupervised access to minor participants at sanctioned team events.

It is the policy of USA Hockey and USA Hockey InLine that all affiliates, districts, leagues and local hockey programs have at least one responsible adult directly monitoring the locker room during all team events to ensure that only participants (coaches and players), approved team personnel and family members are permitted in the locker room and to supervise the conduct in the locker room. Any individual meetings between a minor participant and a coach in a locker room shall require a responsible adult be with the coach.

Further, responsible adults must personally monitor the locker room environment at all times while participants are present and also make sure the locker room is appropriately secured during times when minor participants are on the ice.

All responsible adults serving as locker room monitors should be gender correct and the co-ed locker room policy must be followed as described in the current USA Hockey Annual Guide. Monitors must be screened and meet all USA Hockey screening standards.

The USA Hockey Annual Guide can be downloaded below. Information on screening standards and the co-ed locker room policy can be found on page 35.

Annual Guide

BBYHA Travel Policy - Click Here

A significant portion of USA Hockey participation involves overnight travel for youth teams to games and
tournaments. Minor players are most vulnerable to abuse or misconduct during travel, particularly
overnight stays. This includes a greater risk of player to player misconduct. During travel, players may
be away from their families and support networks, and the setting – unfamiliar locker rooms,
automobiles, and hotel rooms – is less structured and less familiar.

A travel policy provides guidelines
so that care is taken to minimize one-on-one interactions between minors and adults while traveling.

Further, the policy directs how minor players will be supervised between and during travel to and from
practice and games. Adherence to travel policies helps to reduce the opportunities for misconduct.
USA Hockey requires that all local programs have travel policies applicable to their youth teams and to
provide the policies to all players, parents, coaches and other adults that are travelling with the team.