Player Development Strategies Presented By Jim Fetter
Where:Ernie Ritz Room, 121 Huron Street, New Hamburg
Date: December 22, 2011 – 7:30pm
The Wilmot Girls Hockey Association is pleased to host an evening with guest speaker, Jim Fetter. Jim brings to us a wealth of experience in coaching female hockey. He will be sharing a variety of coaching tips and strategies from planning and implementing effective practices, to useful resources for coaches, to promoting the development of all players.
This presentation is open to all members of the coaching staff of 2011/2012 Wilmot Wolverine teams.
Originally from Waterloo, Ont., Jim Fetter recently completed his eighth season as the Wayne State University Head Coach of Women's Hockey in 2010-11 before the University opted to eliminate its women’s hockey program in the spring of 2011. He is currently an Assistant Coach at St. Cloud State University. A three-time recipient of the College Hockey America Women's Coach of the Year Award, he was also a finalist for the American Hockey Coaches Association Women's Division I Coach of the Year Award in 2006 before earning the award in 2008. Prior to his term at Wayne State, he was an Assistant Coach at Mercyhurst University and the University of Maine.
In the summer of 2006, he was selected to Hockey Canada's National Women's Program Coaching Pool. Fetter served as an assistant coach for Team Canada's Under-18 squad for 2007-08 and has also worked summer evaluation camps with the U-22 and National women's team. For the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons, he was chosen as an Assistant Coach for the Under-22 team before being selected Head Coach in 2010-11. He has been selected as an Assistant Coach of the 2011-2012 Under-18 National Women’s squad and will be travelling to the Czech Republic over the holidays for the World Championships.
His women's coaching career began in 1996 when he led his midget team to a bronze medal at provincials and gold a year later. Fetter then served as Head Coach for the University of Lethbridge women's team of the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) in its inaugural season of 1998. A 1995 graduate of the University of Lethbridge, Fetter earned national level experience as an Assistant Coach for Team Alberta's Under-18 squad that won the bronze medal at the 1999 Canada Winter Games in Corner Brook, Newfoundland
