This past weekend I spent a lot of time on LiveBarn watching the Rocky Mountain Districted Evaluation Camp, the camp that determines who will make the USA Hockey National Development camp.  One of the most exciting games was the final gave between the [...]

Simple app with game schedule and rosters for the 2022 Colorado Combine. This is a very basic app, with very few references, simply because I don’t have the time to make it really fancy.  I get no money for creating this, I simply [...]

Have you ever noticed that some people seem like they can train hours a day, every day, while others pace themselves throughout the week?  Are the former overtraining – breaking down their bodies?  Or are the others simply not pushing enough?  It may [...]

Dear Parents, Skaters, and the larger Colorado hockey community, It’s been just a year since I began my transition from a successful IT career to become a full-time skating coach. After the death of both my husband and my mother the previous year, [...]

“You don’t choose your sport, your sport chooses you.” In the past decade or so, this adage has become popular lore in the coaching, and hockey, world. And as both a skating and strength and conditioning coach, I’m here to tell you it’s [...]

Join me for a trial run of a remote training session Thursday, Oct 29 and/or Monday, Nov 2. All hockey players are welcome to join! Those of you skating with me Thursday night can just do Monday instead or rush home and join [...]

I rarely use my blog to tell my own athletic story, but for all you parents of introverts and introverts yourself, it might provide some meaningful insight. I still remember my first “race.”  I was just 7 years old and my sister had [...]

I recently had a prospective client come to me with questions about my training methods.  Being a hockey player, he had been looking at speed skating training for hockey when he came upon some information from a power skating coach whom recommended against [...]