The building committee is currently waiting for two contractors to finish their bids for a structural steel building. We are also waiting for the Wa-dena city council to give their approval for building on the current site of the Hockey arena.

Stand Strong, Stand Forever - Building Update….By Pat Boline

Special points of interest:

Pg-1 Building Update Pg–1 Burggraf Skating Pg-2 Registration Pg-2 Rummage Sale Pg-3 Summer Hockey by

Pat Bienusa Pg-3 What is Resilience

www.WadenaHockey.com August 2010

Burggraf Skating….By Pat Boline

On the development front we will be partaking in the Burggraf skating clinic with the Park Rap-ids Hockey association for all ages from mites to high school from October 26 through Octo-ber 29.

Fall 2010 Registration….by Jill Boline

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IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION~ PLEASE READ!! Wadena Hockey Registration for Mighty Mites-Peewees (Bantams will register through HS, for JV Program. BANTAMS DO NOT PAY USA HOCKEY FEE'S When: Tuesday September 21st from 5-7 pm and Sunday September 26th from 4-6 pm Where: Immanuel Lutheran Church in Wa-dena, 403 2nd street SE Wadena, Mn. Step by Step instructions will be sent out via email when form are available on our website. A six month payment option will again be available. We have also added the option to pay by credit card and or debit card at registration. * NEW THIS YEAR: USA Hockey is only accepting online registration. The fee is $40.00. You will find the link on our website to USA Hockey, please complete your registration, make online payment, print completed USA HOCKEY registration form as you will need to bring this form to registration. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REGISTER YOUR PLAYER WITHOUT THIS COMPLETED FORM. *ALSO NEW THIS YEAR: All players must have a certified copy of their birth certificate on file, this now includes Mighty Mites and Mites. Please bring copy to Registration. Due to the devastation of our facility, the Wadena Hockey Association Board has approved a reduction in our 2010-2011 fees. The fees will be reduced by 1/3. There has been no in-crease in fees from 2009-2010 season. All previous Wadena Hockey Fees must be paid before registering your player for the 2010-2011 season. Any questions please feel free to contact Anna Olson 639-1705 and/or Jill Boline 631-7187. LET'S PLAY HOCKEY!!!

Please call me if you are interested in helping with the rummage sale... help is needed for both setting up and running the sale.

Shelby home: 631-3650 or cell 612-599-5518 (please leave message)

HELP NEEDED:

set up: Monday thru Wednesday (August 23-25) from 5-9 pm

ALSO

Working the sale: Thursday thru Saturday (August 26-28) from 7am-5pm..

Rummage Sale…...by Shelby Cooper

Summer Hockey in St Cloud…..by Pat Bienusa

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Submit Your N

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This newsletter is a great way to report news and highlights about your players. Lets keep this go-ing all year around. Please share pictures and news about your players as they participate in sum-mer leagues and camps. Please forward all information and pictures with captions to secretary@wadenahockey.com or anna@growingupamish.com If you have questions please call Anna at 218-631-1705

Taylor Bienusa, Colter and Bridger Pettit, Shane Moeshenbacher, Mason Freeman, and Matt Spar have been playing hockey games in St.Cloud at the MACC on Thursday, and Sunday nights from June to the middle of August. They play sixteen regular season games, and playoffs start the second week of Au-gust. This is the Blue Chip Hockey League for high school boys that want to skate during the summer months to keep up their skills and perform at a top notch level with players that are elite players, college players, and even some junior players. The kids get together and car pool to St.Cloud with the help of the Freemans and the use of their ve-hichles so Taylor will bring kids to Staples, and then they will take one of the Freeman's bigger vehichles to take down 5 boys, and Jeff Pettit usually takes the other kids that don't fit into the Freeman's truck. The boys are having alot of fun, and love to get together for the team comrodery!! And of course the highlight of their trips are the usual stop at the Taco Bell to eat as much as they can!!! So a big hats off to those kids for keeping their skating up during the summer to keep their hockey skills intact for this upcoming season for the Wolverines!!!

re·sil·ience [ ri zíllyənss ] 1. speedy recovery from problems: the ability to re-cover quickly from setbacks elasticity: the ability of matter to spring back quickly into shape after being bent, stretched, or deformed What is Strength? strength [ strength ] 1. physical power: the physical power to carry out de-manding tasks 2. emotional toughness: the necessary qualities required to deal with stressful or painful situations source of support: a source of strength or support

Synonyms: power, force, might

What is resilience??

7 Strategies to Help Your Athlete Be More Confident….

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In this helpful article for youth sports parents, Dr. Patrick J. Cohn, a leading youth sports psychology expert, discusses 7 steps parents can take to help their child perform with more confidence. 7 Steps to Helping Your Athlete Play with More Confidence - Hockey com-petition can be both mentally and physically challenging for young athletes. Kids may feel nervous, unsettled, or feel more pressure to play their best. Young athletes may experience excitement or nervous jitters before and during competition. Athletes who feel jitters are the players who may under perform. Some young athletes may have a fear of embarrassment or fear of making mistakes. Some athletes make comparisons with other athletes, which is not always healthy for kids’ confidence. Some young hockey players are worried about impressing a coach or parent. Some athletes are held back because they lack confidence and have doubts. Other athletes may try to

perform perfectly and tie themselves up in knots doing so. Below are seven mental game tips to help sports kids perform their best in competition: 1. Let Go of Fear In sports, most of the fear athletes experience to is not about being in danger or harming themselves physically, although in some sports like hockey, you can be physically injured. The fear I am talking about is a psychological threat that is often based on an ath-lete’s perception of the importance of a performance or game and what others think about his or her performance. Most of the time, an athlete’s fear is worry related to poor results – whether prior to or during a performance. Athletes often fear the negative consequences of their performance. They worry about many things that are often not under their control. The very first step is to identify the beliefs, attitudes, and expectations that cause your athletes to hold onto over-exactness in competition and lead to fear of failure. You want your athletes to keep the positive aspects of their mental game such as your mo-tivation and commitment to sport. However, maintaining beliefs or attitudes that support a fearful, cautious, or over-seriousness attitude when performing does not allow kids perform their best. Thoughts such as “I must be perfect if I want to make the team today” or “I must analyze my mis-takes and fix them right away so I don’t make the same mistake” cause kids to play tentatively. 2. Play Freely instead of Holding Back

Boil one small to med chicken/cool/debone. In mixing bowl combine: 1-16oz sour cream 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 4oz can green chiles saute one med onion, add into mixture In 9x13 pan/ spray with pam or lighty grease with crisco/butter. rip or tear up in small bite size flour tortillias for the first layer.2nd add diced up chicken/3rd layer add some of the mi-ture/4th add some shredded cheese,..( cheddar,mozzerella, whatever is to your lik-ing...Continue doing the layers until you run out of stuff... Bake @ 350 till golden bubblie....about an hour i guess... * sometimes I might add extra green chilies/or diced jalepenos/ortega mexican seasoning.... whatever is to your taste.... Really good served with garlic cheese bread/side salad... Enjoy!!!

Chicken Chaluppa….by Anna Olson

During mental toughness training, I teach my students about two mindsets that contribute to success in sports. The first is the training or practice mindset. Great athletes know the value of training. They strive to get better and to improve. They have a tre-mendous amount of motivation and work ethic, which help them to practice hard so they can master their skills. The trusting or performance mindset is equally important for success in sports. Trust is the ability to let skills “happen” instinctively by relying on practice instead of consciously directing movements. The performance mindset is the ability to rely on practice, per-form freely, and allow skills to flow without excess thought. The bottom line… If your athletes are stuck in the practice mentality when they compete, they will limit their ability to perform their best because of too much analysis, trying too hard to be perfect, and a loss of trust. 3. Focus on Self not Others – Make No Comparisons. Your athletes must start with the understanding that most intimidation in sports is self-induced. Yes, other athletes will sometimes use direct intimidation or play head games with your athletes, but they can make the choice to not pay attention and look the other way. However, your athletes can’t “look the other way” when they are their own worst enemy because they are intimidated by their own thoughts about the level of the competition, the rink conditions, or the venue. Athletes who lack confidence often look for others to help them feel confident. Likewise, these same athletes intimidate themselves by paying too much attention to other hockey players or by putting other hockey players on a pedestal. Most self-induced intimidation comes from your athletes giving too much energy to other competitors by making comparisons, thinking too much about the reputation of their competitors, or feeling like they do not belong at the current level of play. Tips for helping your athlete overcome self-intimidation:

Help your athletes avoid putting other athletes on a pedestal, as if they are better than your athletes or superior.

Help your athlete stop making comparisons to athletes who they think are better.

Help your athletes focus on their strengths instead thinking about the reputation of other competitors and how they stack up.

Help your athletes see themselves on equal ground in terms of their ability. 4. Play for Yourself, not Others. Social approval is an important phenomenon in my discussions with athletes that I coach. Many athletes rely too much on social approval to boost their own levels of self-worth. Some athletes think that if others respect their sports performance, this, for some reason, will make them a better person. Many athletes buy into this notion and think that they are better people if they can achieve acknowledgment, gain approval or respect from others through sports. For many athletes, a huge source of worry about their performance results from the need to seek “social approval” from others. If this is your athlete, they might have a need to be admired, accepted, respected, or liked by other people. They worry about per-forming poorly because it may have an influence on what others might think about them. Thus, athletes who want approval from others can become anxious or are afraid to fail in competition. The need for social approval is the root of fear of failure. But this story gets even better. What happens when your athletes want approval, but can’t get it? Does this affect how they feel about themselves as people? For most of my students, yes! Athletes want approval from others so they can feel better about themselves! Tips to Stop Worrying What Others Think

Help your athletes understand why they value (sometimes too much) others’ opinions. Help your athletes have self-respect not other-based respect.

Help your athletes stop the mind reading or thinking too much about what others might think.

Help your athletes know who they are on the inside. They should define who the person is first – called self-concept.

Help your athletes separate self-esteem and performance. Too often, athletes judge themselves on their performance in sports. 5. Play Functionally – Don’t try to be Perfect. An important lesson I teach my students is to learn how to perform efficiently instead of perfectly. I call this a “functional mindset.” A functional mindset is the opposite of trying to make everything perfect. It starts with the idea that your athletes DO NOT have to be perfect to perform their best. They are human and humans can’t be perfect. Your athletes will make mistakes and you and your athletes have to accept mistakes. Tennis coach to professional players, Brad Gilbert, calls the functional mindset “winning ugly,” which he wrote a book about. Tips for how to play functionally:

Have your kids use the warm up to get a “feel” for their performance. Don’t have them practice their game to control it. Re-mind them not judge the quality of their technique or performance in the warm up. If your athletes miss a couple of shots, tell them not to fret over it.

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Your athletes should let go of the need to control their performance and let it happen.

Have your athletes think “win ugly.” Use whatever works to help them get the job done in tryouts. For example, instead of needing to execute a play exactly from the playbook, be happy with a play that worked well, but maybe was not “textbook” execu-tion.

Help your athletes use what’s working. Stick to what parts of your athletes game are working well. 6. Be Confident. My definition of self-confidence is how firmly athletes believe in their ability to execute a physical skill or perform a task. That’s right–confidence is how strongly an athlete believes in his ability to execute a play. Confidence is derived from a baseline assess-ment of past performances, training, and preparation. As your athletes’ competency or skill mastery grows, their confidence be-comes proportionately stronger. I think of confidence as a cure-all for what ails athletes’ mental game. If athletes have high self-confidence, it’s very hard to get anxious or tense, or worry about results because they already know that they will perform well. With high confidence, they don’t fret about the competition. With confidence, they are relaxed and focused on the correct performance cues. Do you get my point? Doubt is the number one killer to a confident mindset. Pessimistic, perfectionistic and over-motivated athletes tend to hold on tight to doubts, which if unchecked can ruin an athlete’s mindset and derail performance. Some athletes start doubting before they even start the competition or make an error. Most athletes struggle with doubt after making a mistake or performing poorly in competition. When they let doubt run rampant and unchecked, it sabotages confidence. However, athletes who can recognize doubt and turn it into statements of confidence can counter the negative influence that doubt may have over them. The first step in overcoming doubt is to become aware of the thoughts that deteriorate confidence. The next step is to counter the doubts with thoughts that will lead to better outcomes. 7. Focus on the Process, not Results. Your athletes have the unique ability to selectively attend to what they want. This mental skill comes in handy when they perform, but only if they focus on the right performance cues. Your athletes objective is to focus their attention on performance “cues” which help them perform their best. A performance cue is any thought, feeling, or image that helps you execute. A hockey player might feel his wrist flick on the shot. Understanding what is not relevant is an important step in helping your athletes improve focus by understanding their distraction. Many of the athletes I work with tend to overload their brains with too much information – more than they can handle at one time. Information overload or having misleading information sends mixed signals to the body. In this indecisive state, the body will not execute with the desired outcome or rhythm. Once your athletes define performance cues and can clearly recognize non-relevant cues or distractions, they are now in a better position to become fully immersed into their performance – an important quality of being in the zone or gaining a zone focus. Un-important cues or distractions might be thinking about missing a previous shot or what the coach might do if you lose the puck. Learning any new skill takes time. It does not matter if your athletes are learning physical skills or mental skills, repetition and ap-plication is necessary to make it part of everyday practice and performance. Helping your athletes commit to improving their men-tal toughness over time, (even when your athletes are performing well), will lead to a consistent mental game and performance in any situation including tryouts. Editor’s Note: Special thanks to Dr. Patrick Cohn for the above article.

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