Each year at the Tiger Paw Elite Summer Hockey School, during Championship Habits, we ask our students to set their goals and objectives for the coming season and beyond.
As you know, goals are not goals until they are written down and there is an accountability factor to achieving them.
Through Championship habits, the dryland sessions and the on ice, we encourage our students to get out of their comfort zone! Increase their speed through the dryland drills and on ice drills! Improve their stickhandling, improve their shot, their compete level...their strength.
In increasing the strength we encourage our students to increase their muscle mass/body weight.
And, many of our Championship Habits explain the merit of pursuing an education for life goals as well as pursuing a long term hockey development approach.
So, you can imagine what the goals and objectives reflect. It appears that the message is getting across!
Every respondent wants to eat better to fuel their body! Many respondents wanted to improve their grades to pursue academic options for hockey and career.
All stated hockey specific improvements, many wanted to increase their muscle mass and add weight to their bodies.
One of the students had these simple goals:
1.) try my hardest at everything I do
2.) be a gentleman
3.) become a lawyer
As you go through the process a few times with students, seeing them pursue academic dreams by the opportunities that hockey presents, is an amazing thing to see. And, if that student becomes a lawyer instead of a professional hockey player, that is just the kind of success that you want to see from your students...or a doctor, or a dentist, or an accountant or any professional pursuit, we would have helped our student achieve their lifetime goals!
One more student story before we go. A female student disclosed, she wants to be the first female General Manager in the National Hockey League.
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