Grand Traverse Hockey Association

The GTHA House program is our recreational hockey program for the youth in the Grand Traverse region. Our fees include the costs for ice time, referees fees, administrative costs, trophies and awards, team registration fees, coaching and referee expenses, one tournament fee, district fees and equipment costs. The registration fees do not include the lottery fundraiser, or any extra ice time or extra tournaments the team may participate in during the season.

The house season will begin with the draft skates. These skates will start after the Red Wing’s Training Camp in mid-September. All house players Mite C/D thru Bantams must participate in draft skates in September. There will be 2-3 draft skates for each age division. All skaters are expected to participate in all draft skates.  

We take the player ratings from the coaches’ evaluations and try to form balanced house teams based upon the demonstrated abilities of the players. We will announce the teams at the Parent/Player meetings according to the following schedule:

Mites A & B will have their parent meeting at Centre ICE on September 23rd. Mite A at 5:30 & Mite B at 6:30.

Mite C & D parent meetings will be at Centre ICE on October 1.  Mite C at 5:30 and the D's at 6:30.

These meetings are considered mandatory as the team roster must be signed.  Schedule information will also be available.

 A general description of the programs follows:
Mites: Players with birth dates  2002 and earlier (generally 8 & under) are referred to as “Mites.” Please see the Mite page for information regarding the Mite program.

Squirts: Players with 2001 and 2000 birth dates. For more information regarding our squirt house program, click Squirt on the right side of the page

PeeWees: Players with 1998 and 1999 birth dates. For more information regarding our PeeWee house program, click PeeWees on the right side of the page.

Bantams: Players with 1997 and 1996 birth dates. For more information regarding our Bantam house program, click Bantams on the right side of the page.

Girls are eligible to play on either the house teams listed above or on a dedicated girls team. Click on Girls at the right for more information on the Girls Hockey program.

***Please note that the GTHA will not be accepting any move up, ride or other team placement requests for the 2010-2011 season.***
 

 GTHA is implementing the ADM model for all Mites.

To learn more about the ADM,

please click on the image to the right.  

It will take you directly to the

USA Hockey ADM website.