Hockey Academy

Valleyview Secondary School - HOCKEY CANADA SKILLS ACADEMY (Gr. 8, 9, 10)

Valleyview Secondary School is very proud to be the home of our local Hockey Canada Skills Academy. Our academy provides both male/female hockey players of all levels an opportunity for elite level coaching/training for our student-athletes while continuing with their regular academic course studies at VSS. The schedule for our student-athletes has each of them enrolled in 2 blocks of hockey academy (1 per semester) throughout the school year and receive on-ice instruction an average of 2.5 times per week (60 minutes each). Students are also scheduled into dry-land training/programs and classroom instruction following the Hockey Canada curriculum. 

Our academy is very fortunate to have the following individuals as part of our support coaching/teaching staff: Don Hay, Michelle Pepin, Michael Hails, Dan De Palma,and Colin Robinson from the Kamloops Blazers, Lucas Gore, Tyler Love, Murray Baron, Scott Ferguson, Greg Kozoris (Acceleration Fitness) and Peter Soberlak (Sports Psychologist-TRU). The academy is based out of the Valleyview Arena as our practice facility and Acceleration Fitness training center as our dry-land training facility. 

We currently have 3 sections of classes: comprised of male and female players. All participating students are enrolled at VSS and pay an annual academy fee of $900 to pay for all associated costs. If you are interested in our HCSA and require more information about the program or the application process, please feel free to contact Mr. Chris Horton, Vice-Principal at : chorton@sd73.bc.ca