Sep 19, 2024 | Anne Love | 450 views
Zone Update
On August 5, the minor hockey associations of WOAA met to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for the Zone Hockey trial to take place for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 hockey seasons. This change will have our representative hockey teams being formed with players from 6 zones now established by the WOAA. These zones are considered ‘A’ centers and will have ‘A’ teams at all major and minor levels beginning at U10.
Our zone, Zone 6, will consist of the hockey associations of Listowel, Wallace, Central Perth, Howick, Minto, Drayton, and Mount Forest. The transition will begin the spring of 2025 with spring tryouts for Zone 6. This trial will not affect our local league players.
Each hockey association has equal representation on the zone committee and play a part in establishing the zone's operation. Huge thanks to our two reps, Jeremy Heibein and Brendan Magee, who attended the first Zone 6 meeting last week.
This is a 2 year trial - the first of a kind in the OMHA - and this will allow our association to remain intact and avoid costly amalgamations.
As this progresses, we intend to keep everyone informed as much as we can.
Anne Love
President, Listowel Minor Hockey