HTC Regional Club Championship Selection Process – East Coast

HTC is proud to announce we will be selecting our RCC teams to train and compete this Spring/Summer. We will be selecting a U14, U16 and U19 RCC Team.

The Regional Club Championship tournaments for our Region 1-3 will be;

U14 RCC – June 3-4, 2023 – Epping NH

U16 RCC – June 3-4, 2023 – Epping NH

U19 RCC – June 10-11, 2023 – Providence RI 

What is the Regional Cup Championship?

This is one of the major tournaments that we will attend as a club. We will be competing against other Northeast club teams. The winning team for each age group will move on to the National Club Championships later on in the summer. 

This is one of the tournaments that we have try-outs for and our coaching staff will select the teams via these two options.

1. RCC Try-outs 

We will have 5 opportunities to Try-Out for the RCC Training Squads;

March 1 – New Milford – Connecticut Sports Arena – 7p-9p

March 10 – Madison – Daniel Hand High School – 5:30p-6:30p

March 11 – Glastonbury – Oakdale Sports Center – 8a-10a

March 12 – Hartford – Trinity College – 1p-3p

March 20 – Wallingford – Choate Rosemary Hall – 6:30p-8:30p

All interested players must register for this try out, regardless if they can make the actual try-out. If a player cannot make the actual try-out date, please email Deb and Darren and let them know. Again, all players must register for the try- out regardless if they can actually make a date! 

2. Players that cannot make any of the try-out dates, must register for the try out anyway! For these players, our coaches will use our knowledge of the players  from previous practices and tournaments to make a decision on selection. If a player is brand new to our club and has not participated with us previously, we will arrange a private try-out opportunity. So all interested players must register for the try-out and then if they cannot make it for any reason, email Deb and Darren to let us know. 

All HTC and New players to our club are eligible to be considered for one of our RCC teams! 

This Spring our RCC Training Squads will have 2-3 intense practices per week. This program is designed to work on individual skill development, small game concepts, improve player’s game knowledge, and gain valuable 11v11 game experience.  

We will select 20-30 players per age group for our RCC Training Squads. We will evaluate each player during the spring at practices and at tournaments. We will then select the final teams as we get closer to the RCC tournament.

Here are the steps for players to take to be considered for one of our RCC  teams;

All interested players must register for our RCC try-outs, regardless if they can attend or not. We will use this registration list to select for all RCC Teams. So register if you want to be considered. 

We will have 5 possible try out dates. We highly recommend players attend as many try-out dates as possible so that our coaches can evaluate your play. 

If you are a player at a Prep School now or have other obligations and cannot make any of our try out dates, we are asking you to register for the try outs anyway to express your interest in being selected to one of our RCC Teams. For these players, we will use our past knowledge of your play to make the RCC selections. Please email Deb and Darren to let them know you are interested but cannot make one of the try-out dates. 

Try-Out Sessions

March 1 – New Milford – Connecticut Sports Arena – 7p-9p

March 10 – Madison – Daniel Hand High School – 5:30p-6:30p

March 11 – Glastonbury – Oakdale Sports Center – 8a-10a

March 12 – Hartford – Trinity College – 1p-3p

March 20 – Wallingford – Choate Rosemary Hall

Our RCC Training Squads  will be announced the week of March 20, 2023. For the players that are selected to the RCC Training Squad, we will forward the specific training practice schedule. For those players that are not selected this time around, they will be invited to join our club or academy programs. 

What will the schedule be if I make the RCC Training Team?

Our training squads will attend 2-3 practices per week. There will be practices, tournaments and play days for our teams to prepare for the RCC Tourney. Once you are selected for the RCC Training Squad, we will forward you your training schedule. Possible training sites will be in Glastonbury, Tolland, North Branford, Hartford, Kent, Wallingford and Farmington. 

 

Important Reminders!

• Age requirements for the RCC Teams are determined by a players age on January 1, 2023.
• Everyone must have USFHA membership that is current through September 1, 2023 and you must select HTC as your affiliated club.
• We will announce our RCC Training Squads the week of March 20, 2023.

We are very excited to offer our Regional Club Championship Program this Spring. We anticipate a very competitive spring season and look forward to our teams celebrating as this year’s RCC Champions!

Any questions, contact Debra Brickey or Darren Smallhorn;

dbrickey@HTCfieldhockey.com

dsmallhorn@htcfieldhockey.com