TorontoToday on removing the cost barrier for first-time players.
Most Open Ice campers have never played organised hockey. Many have never laced up skates. TorontoToday covered what it takes to run a camp where the majority of participants are complete beginners, from the learn-to-skate feeder group through to small-area games by the end of the week.
The article also covered the equipment fitting guides that Open Ice developed with visuals and translated language, built for first-generation immigrant families who may be unfamiliar with hockey equipment terminology.
This is our summary. Read or watch the original at TorontoToday.
Two organisations, one in the classroom and one at the rink, exploring a pathway that carries a student from a school assembly to a pair of skates.
Four days of ice and dryland, free lunch, and a full set of equipment for every camper.
Where the programme stands after its first three cycles, and what the numbers mean.
