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Hockey camp attracts almost 200 kids

The fourth annual Season Opener hockey camp was another resounding success in Rankin Inlet this past week, with 180 local minor minor hokey players and 10 out-of-town players taking part.

Camp organizer and top on-ice instructor, David Clark, explains a drill to a group of initiation players during the fourth annual Season Opener hockey camp in Rankin Inlet this past week. Darrell Greer/NNSL photo

The camp ran from Oct. 16 to 21 and included on-ice instruction for every minor hockey age bracket from initiation to midget, as well as offering off-ice training sessions and a literacy module.

The Season Opener camp has seen more than 600 kids come through the Rankin arena to participate since the program started in 2014.

The 2017 edition saw Adriana Kusugak once again deliver the literacy module, while her husband, Pujjuut Kusugak, oversaw the off-ice instruction.

Camp organizer and top on-ice instructor David Clark said the camp hired a number of youth leaders to help out during the week.

SA国际影视传媒淭he younger youth leaders who helped run the camp are just out of high school and seeing that also makes me very proud, especially with many of them having participated in the camp for three years and now they're out helping to run it and that's pretty incredible,SA国际影视传媒 said Clark.

The camp concluded with a game day on Saturday, Oct. 21. As the week progressed, the players became more and more eager for game day to arrive.

SA国际影视传媒淭hey were eager to learn and they had a great time during the entire week,SA国际影视传媒 said Clark.

SA国际影视传媒淗ockey is moving more and more in the direction of skill and skating and we're following along and doing our part with the development of our players.SA国际影视传媒

Clark said the instructors rarely touch upon team strategies or approaches during the week, instead focusing on individual, rather than team, achievement.

SA国际影视传媒淭he camp is about helping to make each and every one of the players who attend a little bit better,SA国际影视传媒 he said. SA国际影视传媒淭he season is for putting the emphasis on team aspects, while this camp is all about is skill development.SA国际影视传媒

Clark said he hopes to secure more money to run future editions of the camp.

SA国际影视传媒淚'd like to be able to add a lunch program because it can be hard on the parents, and the players, with their lunch hours being at different times. I hope to make that a reality for the 2018 camp,SA国际影视传媒 he said. SA国际影视传媒淥ur community makes the camp happen. Every single person out at this camp is from Rankin Inlet, and I'm very proud to say that. It's a made in Rankin and run by the community of Rankin camp, and that's the way we like it in this community.SA国际影视传媒

The Rankin Inlet Minor Hockey Association is still looking for one more atoms coach, he said, and time is running short with the season set to begin this week.

SA国际影视传媒淚'm a little concerned about it, to be honest with you, with our regularly scheduled ice times set to begin,SA国际影视传媒 said Clark.

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Darrell Greer/NNSL photo Cutline: Sam Kaludjak, Vestal Netser, Denise Martin, Logan Illnik and Blake Kusugak, from left, show off their 'guns' during a training session with Pujjuut Kusugak in Rankin Inlet on Oct 20.
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photo courtesy of Noel Kaludjak Cutline: A Mimico Canadiens player, back, looks on as Rankin Rock players Sophia Kaludjak, Tiana Misheralak, Vestal Netser and Terence Pilakapsi, from left, chat with a homeless woman after giving her the last of their spending money during the first leg of the Northern Exchange program. The exchange brought players from the Rankin Inlet Hockey Association together with the Mimico Canadiens Hockey Association near Toronto, Ont., earlier this month.
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photo courtesy of Holly Mercer Cutline: Holly Mercer and Robert Kabvitok, right, of Rankin Inlet accept their Community Program Award from Kyle Seeley of CLEY's Sport and Recreation Division during an awards ceremony in Iqaluit earlier this month.
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photo courtesy of Julia MacPherson Cutline: Culture and shop teacher Laimmiki Malliki leads a group of Tuugaalik High School students out on a boating trip in Naujaat this past month. Malliki is seen by principal Aubrey Bolt as a tremendous asset to the school's cultural programming.




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