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West Section

West Section Meetings

The West Section conducts two meetings during the course of the hockey season: a Spring and Fall meeting. The notices, deadlines  and agenda items are emailed to all association presidents well in advance of the meeting and within the time frame outlined  by the NY district. To be eligible to vote, associations must turn in a voter delegate from in a timely fashion before the fall section meeting. If  there are questions should be directed to West Section President Gary Joseph. Gary's Contact information is: 

Gary Joseph 

West Section President NYSAHA

gary.joseph@nysaha.com

716-983-0340


SAFE SPORT TRAINING

There have been many changes to the Safesport program.  The United States government enacted the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and SafeSport Authorization Act of 2017 (the “SafeSport Authorization Act”) on February 14, 2018. Pursuant to the SafeSport Authorization Act, the U.S. Center for SafeSport (“USCSS”) adopted Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies, dated January 23, 2019 (the “MAAPP”), which include policies that the SafeSport Authorization Act requires to be adopted by all national governing bodies (“NGBs”) recognized by the United States Olympic Committee (the “USOC”). The USCSS has also adopted the SafeSport Code for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement (the “USCSS Code”), which includes information and policies and procedures to which the USOC, all NGBs recognized by the USOC, and all programs recognized by an NGB must comply.

Read the entire document in the safesport memo.

Click the safesport logo to access the entire safeport document

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USA HOCKEY NY DISTRICT WEST SECTION

The West Section of the NY District is comprised of the following counties: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Wyoming, and Yates.

There are 58 approved member associations in the west section with approximately 11,000 players registered with USA Hockey; the most in the NY District.

Gary Joseph is the current West Section President with Amy Rogers serving as his alternate. Their term will run from 2021 - 2024. The West Section conducts two regularly scheduled meetings: one in the fall and another in the spring.

 

West Section President

Gary Joseph

WEST SECTION PRESIDENT

Phone: (716) 983-0340

West Section Alternate President

Amy Rogers

Alternate President West Section

Phone: 716.949.9900


NEWS AND NOTES


Girls Tier 1 Hockey

If your Association is going to have Tier I Girls teams next season in order to be in compliance with the rules that were voted into place, you must publicize or advertise your tryouts prior to the USA Hockey National Championships that begin next week. The rule follows below

Regards

 

West Section President NYSAHA

Associations that would like to host Girls Tier I NTB teams for the following season must publish and advertise tryout dates prior to the start of the current USA Hockey National Championship; provided, however, that no tryouts or activities that could be construed as such may occur until 48 hours after the last game of the Tier I Girls’ and Tier II Girls’ National Championships. Associations holding tryouts, and players trying out, are not necessarily guaranteed that the teams selected/rostered through tryouts will be granted Girls Tier I NTB status. All rostered teams seeking this designation must carry a minimum of 15 players, including goaltenders, and the greatest percentage of the players on the roster must be residents of the State of New York as determined under USA Hockey Rule III.C (Registration).


West Section State and National bound (TB) Teams List



USA Hockey or IIHF sanctioned teams

All:

 

Your teams must play against other USA Hockey or IIHF sanctioned teams whether exhibition games or in a tournament. The tournament also needs to be sanctioned. Please make sure that all of your Coaches and Staff of your teams are aware of this basic premise of our game.

 

Any questions  please contact me.

 

Regards,

 

 




All Associations - Due October 15

The links below must be completed by October 15. Your Association must complete the screening and ADM declaration in a timely manner. The due date is October 15.


WEST SECTION STAFF