What is the McCrae Williamson Jamboree? The Jamboree is a 4-day event where the primary focus is on ensuring all players are provided with an opportunity to improve their playing skills and ice hockey knowledge in a non-competitive environment, play small area games to enhance their playing skills, meet new friends and most importantly have a “FUN” experience! When/Where is the Jamboree? The Jambo
ree is held in the Adelaide Ice Arena over the June Long Weekend
Who can attend the Jamboree? Any IHA member player born (7-11 years old) is eligible to attend the Jamboree. Players must be a current active registered member with IHA. So what happens at the Jamboree? It's an open national coaching even for all 7-11 year olds who are registered with Ice Hockey Australia. Basically the kids will be broken into two groups:
10 and 11 year olds and 7, 8, 9 year olds. Each group will get:
3 hours on the ice Friday, 1.5 hours Saturday, 3 hours Sunday and 1.5 hours Monday. During these ice times the kids are broken into small groups of about 8-10 players. and they rotate between coaching stations where they do coached Small Area Games. Monday there is a morning of cross ice hockey games which is a lot of fun to watch as it is intense. It is a fantastic event for player development as well as for coaches to develop their skills.
