The BC Hockey Championship Host sites for integrated and female, Peewee to Juvenile, have been announced.

The BC Hockey Championship dates are:

Female: March 21-24, 2019 with a travel date of March 20, 2019
Integrated Tier 1-4: March 17-21, 2019 with a travel date of March 16, 2019
Juvenile: March 21-24, 2019 with a travel date of March 20, 2019

Please see PDF for locations.

Victoria C1 joins Saanich C1 to commemorate Buddy Check for Jesse by taping their sticks in green tape to honor the memory of Jesse Short-Gershman and raise awareness of mental health issues. https://buddycheckforjesse.com/ #buddycheckforjesse

Saanich Minor Hockey Association is pleased to be participating in the Buddy Check for Jesse Mental Health Awareness program this season through their partnership with BC Hockey. We will be distributing green stick tape and other resources to our teams (atom through midget) over the next few days and encourage you to discuss this with your players. It is an important initiative to help normalize the conversation around mental health.

From BC Hockey:

BC Hockey has partnered with Buddy Check For Jesse to provide a Mental Health Awareness pilot program for the 2018-2019 season. Buddy Check was created by Dr. Stu Gershman who unfortunately lost his son Jesse to suicide October 29, 2014.

BC Hockey is reaching out to teams to support Mental Health awareness by participating in Buddy Check For Jesse. The program was developed for hockey coaches to deliver a message about mental health to their teams. It began with Jesse’s dad, Dr. Stu Gershman, wanting to help his other two boys feel support, to take action, to create awareness of Mental Health challenges, and to support their teammates. Stu believes that coaches are in a unique position to share this positive message to help raise awareness that mental health issues can affect anyone.

Stu is proud to have partnered with BC Hockey, CBI Health Group, and Suburbia studios (amongst others) and is grateful for the support he has received with this project.

Each team will receive eight (8) rolls of green tape, green wristbands, mental health awareness cards, and a coach’s speech to be facilitated prior to a game on the weekend of October 27-28, 2018. All materials will be sent to the team’s General Managers the week prior and BC Hockey will coordinate shipment or pick up for the Greater Victoria Minor Hockey Associations. Please post any social media to Twitter or Facebook using the hashtag #BuddyCheckForJesse and #BuddyCheckBC.

For further information on Buddy Check For Jesse please visit https://buddycheckforjesse.com/.

We encourage all teams to start the conversation around Mental Health and utilize the resources provided to you for this initiative. Jesse’s family hopes that through creating this program in Jesse’s honour, it will help other youth and families.

https://goo.gl/forms/Gcjb7ZbNFsl6QCQa2

As you may all know, the Pearkes Gold rink is 50 years old and requires extensive and expensive upgrades to keep it functional. Hockey Canada and other research shows that ice arenas have an average life expectancy of 30 to 35 years. Many municipalities raze rinks when they have reached this age.

Currently, the number of ice rinks in Saanich is far below what is provided by other municipalities in the area, and by what is needed by Saanich user groups. Saanich currently provides 2 rinks for a population of 114,000 which is a ratio of 1 ice surface per 57,000 people. In comparison, Esquimalt is 1 rink per 18,000; Oak Bay is 1 per 18,000 and Peninsula is 1 per 20,000 people. In order for Saanich to meet current demand and to be in line with other municipalities, we need a total of 5 rinks to bring the ratio down to 1 rink per 22,800 people.

PLEASE SIGN THE ATTACHED PETITION (click on the google forms link below), to ask that Saanich Council take immediate action to not only repair the aging ice rinks at Pearkes, but to also work towards constructing new ice rinks.

https://goo.gl/forms/Gcjb7ZbNFsl6QCQa2

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Welcome to the Bantam C1 webpage!

Head Coach: Todd Jones
Team Managers: Paul Bendall and Cindy Eng

To contact the team please email: smha.bantam.c1.mgr@gmail.com