Photos from the Titans 2021 Try Hockey For Free event
Titans return with our annual Try Hockey For Free community event
After a Covid hiatus, the Titans finally held our annual Try Hockey for Free community event on Sunday Oct. 24th from 10:00am - 11:20am at Fort Dupont Ice Arena. As always it was a BLAST! We had 29 participants: tots who'd never been on the ice before, roller skaters trying out the ice, and ice skaters who wanted to see what it's like to play with a hockey stick. SO many of our 10U, 12U and 14U Titans, and even an alum, turned out to volunteer with assisting. More photos to come!
TITANS 2021-2022 SEASON IS OPEN
The Titans 2021-2022 Season is now open for registration! Please click on this link for our registration site with guidance and instructions on how to sign up for this year. GO TITANS!
TITANS 12U PEEWEES TEAM 2020 CCHL CHAMPIONS
Congratulations to our 12U Peewees Team on their hard work!
TITANS 10U SQUIRTS TEAM 2020 CCHL FINALISTS
Congratulations on a spectacular showing at the 2020 CCHL Tournament!
CLASH OF THE TITANS
TITANS 10U BLUE SQUIRTS WIN THE 2019 JOE LOSCHIAVO CUP - CCHL DIVISION TITLE
CCHL Cup Division IV Championship Game came down to a Clash of the Titans, our 10U Blue v 10U Silver teams!
Titans 10U Blue team takes the CCHL Division IV Title! Congrats to all the players who were led through this season by Head Coach Ryan Smith. Go Titans!
Titans PeeWee Anthony Diallo was MVP of the game in Hershey and was interviewed on the ice before the Bears game that evening. The Hagerstown Bulldogs generously invited the Titans 10u and 12U to play a friendly at the famous rink, and the teams stayed to watch a Hershey Bears match.
2019 MLK SERVICE DAY
TITANS 2019 MLK SERVICE EVENT
Thank you to all the Titans who participated in our MLK Day service event! Despite the freezing cold temperatures and the postponement of our outdoor project with DC Urban greens, dozens of Titans and their families came to Fort Dupont on Jan 21 to assemble one hundred walking food bags for our DC neighbors who are homeless. Big thanks to David Wolf, of Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington and Martha Wolf, of Miriam’s Kitchen (our benefiting partner organizations) who organized and will distribute the food bags. SPECIAL THANKS to our Founder and Coach Emeritus Willy Meaux who came with his crepes, and his huge Titans spirit. Lines for his crepes were out the door! We also received several donations from Titans families who couldn't make it - you were still part of the day and helped to make this happen. GO TITANS!
Titans Launch 'Giving Tuesday' Fundraising Campaign
As we approach the holidays, don’t forget your favorite hockey team! The Titans have launched a major fundraising campaign designed to keep our program strong.
Our goal was to keep this simple. We are asking every Titans family to contribute $25— just use the PayPal button below! Our goal is to raise $2,000 by the end of November.
Please encourage grandparents, aunties, neighbors, friends and colleagues to give—and don’t forget to put the campaign on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and all your social channels. Together, we can make our goal!
TITANS 2020 MLK DAY SERVICE EVENT
Dozens of Titans players and parents gathered at the farm behind Fort Dupont Ice Arena on Monday, Jan 20, for our annual MLK Service day event! They wielded hoes and weeded plant beds, and helped staffers from our nonprofit partner DC Urban Greens prepare for this year's spring planting. DCUG provides produce for residents in DC's food deserts. It was a chilly day, but warm inside the hothouses, and after all the hard work, the Titans-turned-gardeners were treated to Coach Meaux's famous hot nutella crepes. Big thanks to the wonderful staff at DC Urban Greens, and thanks to all the Titans who turned out!
MITES JINGLE JAMBOREE
TITANS V1 PLAYERS ON WUSA 9 NEWS!
The Titans V1 team was playing a game when WUSA9 came to the rink to do a story after Blackhawks fans hurled racial insults at Caps forward Devante Smith-Pelly. Other fans wanted to make up for the hurtful incident, so Smith-Pelly steered them to to Fort Dupont, which took in more than $20,000 in donations. Watch our middle schoolers in action, and Lawrent Chinakhwe being interviewed!
Good Reading on Youth Sports
What Sports Parents Can Learn From a Town in Vermont That Produced 11 Olympians
Norwich has sent its kids to the Olympics while largely rejecting the hypercompetitive joy-wringing culture of today’s achievement-oriented parents. In Norwich, kids don’t specialize in a single sport, and they even root for their rivals. Parents encourage their kids to simply enjoy themselves because they recognize that more than any trophy or record, the life skills sports develop and sharpen are the real payoff. The town’s approach runs counter to the widespread belief — propagated by those perpetuating the professionalized youth sports complex — that athletic excellence and a well-balanced childhood cannot coexist."
The Secret to Norway's Olympic Success
Tore Ovrebo, director of elite sports in Norway, says that "in Norway, organized youth sports teams cannot keep score until they are 13. “We want to leave the kids alone,” says Ovrebo. “We want them to play. We want them to develop, and be focused on social skills. They learn a lot from sports. They learn a lot from playing. They learn a lot from not being anxious. They learn a lot from not being counted. They learn a lot from not being judged. And they feel better. And they tend to stay on for longer.”
9-year-old hockey players deliver a lesson in decency
Wondering whether we can still find grace and honor anywhere around Washington? Yes, you can. It was on full display Sunday afternoon at a hockey rink.
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