Girls Elite Goaltending
Sacrifice, sweat, and countless hours of repetition and practice! Hockey success requires more than talent alone. It takes the will to compete and win! The determination to push yourself to your limit and beyond.
All campers in our Girls Elite Camp will be travel players who will be expected to arrive ready for a challenge! We will surround your camper with enthusiastic and professional coaches with the tools necessary to provide a week of demanding, hard work to help push them to the next level. If you want to give your child the best chance for a successful season next year, this is the program!
The Girls Elite Camp is an advanced program designed exclusively for Travel, All-Star and Rep Team players. Applicants are required to submit a resume with their application.
Learn and train under the men and women who have made it to the top level of women's international and collegiate hockey.
Program Highlights
Boarding and Day options. Ages 12-15.
On-Ice Instruction
- Approximately 22 hours of intense on ice instruction and station training beginning Sunday evening and ending Saturday morning.
- Sunday evening skate & evaluation introduces you to the CAN/AM way and gives instructors their first chance to evaluate goalies.
- Monday-Friday goalies will have two 90-minute sessions daily, each with specific skills and goals.
- Additional 30 minute session exclusively for individual goalie development.
- Saturday session serves as a recap from the week and a chance to display enhanced skills during a final scrimmage.
- Advanced daily power skating sessions to enhance agility in movement, recovery, mobility, and foot speed.
- Specialized on-ice curriculum for the Elite Goalie Camp includes individual skill instruction and positional, situational, and game play with an emphasis on speed, flow & execution.
- Train and perfect individual skills such as stance, movement, angle play, rebound control, and puck handling.
- Learn save selection and technique. Learn exactly how to read, react, and even dictate what happens during an offensive attack.
- Use of screen boards, deflection boards, and mirrors to sharpen anticipation, reaction, and form.
- Instant video feedback during the week from on-ice sessions.
- Dedicated shooting staff (during goalies only sessions) capable of challenging any goaltender. Our shooters play at the pro, junior, collegiate, and AAA levels. We will adjust our shot speed and strength based on goalie age and experience.
- Instructional scrimmages early in the week to emphasize and implement new skill development. Coaches will give feedback on the ice and on the bench.
- Professionally coached end of week games with referees and personalized stats from the games.
- Scouting report from accredited player scouts.
Off-Ice Instruction
- Accelerated off-ice program that includes speed & agility training, shooting skills, stick handling circuit, team building, and techniques & tactics.
- Foot Speed, Agility Training & Flexibility:
- Agility stations including ladder drills, Gorilla steps, Dot Drill mats, Power Slide boards, core strengthening via medicine balls and resistance bands, balance and flexibility training.
- Read & React:
- Hand-eye coordination exercises, reflex and anticipation, along with mental and visualization techniques for control and confidence.
- Techniques & Tactics:
- Designed to introduce and reinforce on-ice concepts used during situational and positional play. By introducing these physical elements off-ice, we can help goalies focus on the mental and physical skills involved without having to worry about on-ice distractions. This leads to a much greater understanding of the skill or concept in question.
- Team Challenge:
- Learning of what "TEAM" means is an important part of developing hockey players. You will learn the importance of such critical hockey team skills as desire, cooperation, trust, motivation and just plain hard work towards a common goal. This program is under the supervision of our special Team Challenge staff and instruction is geared towards safety as a priority.
- Interactive lectures focusing on the goalie position and your questions. Topics covered:
- Advantages and drawbacks of goaltending styles.
- Review and critique of professional situations, saves, and breakdowns resulting in goals.
- Goalie responsibilities.
- Understand breakaway concepts and techniques. Know when to come out and how far, how quickly to back up, what visual cues to look for and what saves to make.
- Pre-game preparation, in-game focus, and development of mental toughness and a winning attitude.
- Learning and bouncing back from a bad game.
- Hockey and higher education.
- Fitness Testing for flexibility, sprinting, endurance, and power
- See how you measure up against goalies of your age.
- Recreation:
- Although hockey, both on and off the ice, is the focus at Camp, there are times set aside for recreation in order to relax, have fun and take a break from the concentrated hockey program.
- Field trip to the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center.
Additional Package Details:
- 7 days 6 nights accommodations.
- Sunday camp registration 1:30pm-3:30pm and Opening Ceremonies.
- Sunday team dinner.
- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Monday-Friday.
- Breakfast Saturday morning.
- Olympic Center Guided Tour: How Lake Placid got the Olympic bid and the importance of the Miracle on Ice.
- Friday evening closing activities.
- Saturday closing remarks, Awards Ceremonies, and check-out.
- CAN/AM camp souvenir.
- Official CAN/AM Camp jersey.
- Personal Scouting Report: Detailed end of week evaluation including coaches’ assessment based on your on-ice and off-ice progression and testing results.
- Training workbook to supplement your on-ice training and to guide you through on and off-ice workouts for the upcoming season.