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The Bauer Selects™ Program
fosters the best developmental environment possible for
elite players, giving them exposure to high-caliber coaching
and training methods and preparing them for Junior and
College hockey. The program combines education with
athletics, looking to take the best athletes who play hockey
and guide these hockey-playing athletes through the proper
development process. The Bauer Selects™ Program
is more capable, more experienced, and more proficient
at doing this than any other program out there. Most
importantly, our program gives our participating players
more development at less cost, More Development Bang
for your Buck™.
Spending
money wisely
is not a novel concept. But when it comes to the
development of elite hockey players, the options are
limited. And when you consider what traveling to a weekend
tournament costs, it is easy to see that as enjoyable as it
might be, a weekend tournament will never be as valuable for
a young player’s development as a full weekend of proper
elite training. A tournament team with three lines playing
equally in a game with three 15-minute periods translates to
15 minutes of in-game time per player. The next question of
course is: during those 15 minutes of game time, how long
will the player have the puck on his stick? Games can be
valuable, and tournaments can be fun, but if you are looking
for development, and spending your money wisely is important
to you, there’s only the Bauer Selects™.
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In 2012, we will conduct our programs for the 1996,
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 birth years.
The
Bauer Selects™ will be overseen again this year by
Gino Cavallini and Ryan Taylor.
Our Program Has Three Components;
I –
Bauer Selects Training
Academy™:
Proper, scientifically-proven, high-level training is the
very heart and soul of the Bauer Selects™
program. And our Training Academy contains three aspects:
A. Top 40 Training™
Weekend:
In May, we will conduct
our inaugural Top 40 Training™ weekend at the
University of Notre Dame’s new Compton Family
Center ice facility. The 96s, 97s, 98s, 99s, 00s, 01s,
02s and 03s will all have their sessions on the May 4-6
weekend. Only 40 players will be given the opportunity to
train, compete and practice with some of the best players
from around North America. At the training weekend, players
will receive professional training that encompasses all aspects of
their full development as athletes and hockey players. In
addition to six and a half (6.5) hours of on-ice training,
they will experience the full gamut of the highest-level
training, including off-ice sessions, video sessions,
nutrition seminars, meals at our training table, as well as
learning basic psychology of sports and competition.
B –
Residence Training Camp:
Starting the week of June 19,
the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 age Bauer
Selects™ players will have the opportunity to
advance to our intensive Residence Training Camp. Players
stay at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois and skate
and train at the nearby Seven Bridges Ice Arena, home
of the Chicago Mission AAA Hockey Club. At this camp
the players receive more high-level training with
elite coaches from various backgrounds, including
college and junior hockey. And even as the high tempo
of the training sessions challenges the players’
physical skills, the emphasis remains on developing
the thinking skills so important to elite
competitive hockey, with a focus on key tactical concepts
and developing the situation-recognition skills so essential
for playing the team game at a high-level.
C – College
Coaches Weekend:
At the conclusion of the Residential Camp on June 22,
all our age-levels will learn from and train with a
variety of current NCAA college hockey coaches, as well as
USHL junior coaches. This in essence is another
elite-level training component for our players.
But it is much more, because not only will the
coaches conduct some 5 hours of on-ice training with each
age-level, but also they will host our annual Coaches
Q&A Forum™, an interactive seminar for parents to
learn all aspects of advancing to the college hockey level.
II – Tournament Events: In keeping with our emphasis on
cost-effective high-level training, Bauer Selects™
teams will compete in only two or three spring/summer
tournaments. Two separate teams may be fielded at some
levels. Our goal is for our teams to compete in one
tournament prior to the Top 40 Training™
weekend and in one subsequent to it (see the
individual age-level schedules for the tournaments).
III – Bauer Tretyak Latvia Invite™, Riga, Latvia:
From July 29 through August 6, the Bauer Selects will send teams at
the 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01 and 02 levels to Riga, Latvia to
compete against the best that Europe and Russia have to
offer. Last year’s inaugural Challenge event in St.
Petersburg, Russia showcased an amazing array of talent,
including what were essentially “national” teams from
Sweden, Czech and Finland, as well as the very top clubs
from Russia. Operated in conjunction with Russian hockey
legend Vladislav Tretyak, the Bauer Tretyak Latvia
Invite™, tournament will cap off the 2012
Bauer Selects™ season. |
