The Cathedral Chatard Hockey Club is a varsity level high school team, that is a member of the Indiana High School Hockey Association and the Hoosier High School Hockey League. The Cathedral Chatard Hockey Club is comprised primarily (though not exclusively) of students attending Cathedral High School and Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis. Although they are rivals in almost every other sport, Cathedral and Bishop Chatard students join together to form the backbone of our team.
Since its beginning in theearly 1990s, the Cathedral Chatard Hockey Club has achieved an enviable record of excellence. Over the years, the team has won four state championships, and has been runner on three other occasions, including the last two years. This year, five of our players and our Coach, Mike Kellermeyer were named to the league all star squad.
Although we are proud of the championships and awards the teams have won on the ice, we are equally proud of our student athletes’ performance off the ice.
Once leaving high school, almost all of our players further their education by attending some of the most highly respected colleges in the nation. Among the colleges that this year’s seniors will attend are: Eastern Michigan University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, Wittenberg University, Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame.
The CCHC Blues are supported financially by team members, parents, and charitable contributions. However, the Club considers itself extremely fortunate to receive substantial non-monetary support from the schools. Cathedral and Bishop Chatard both award varsity letters to their respective team members and the accomplishments of the team members are publicized and celebrated to the same extent that the school publicizes the accomplishments of athletes of every sport. The team members particularly enjoy the enthusiastic support they receive from their school mates who show up at games in significant numbers to cheer their classmates on to victory.
The goal of the Club is to provide an environment for our students that enables them to participate in a sport of their choosing, and improve their skills as hockey players, while permitting them to have the time and opportunity to participate in all other aspects of high school life. In addition to attending the normal dances and football games, our hockey players participate in a wide variety of cultural, academic, athletic and community service activites. For example, seven of last year’s players were starters for their respective Lacrosse teams, with one player receiving All American Honors, and three players achieving All State Honors. In addition to Lacrosse, current players have won varsity letters in sports as diversified as football, soccer, and baseball.
Others of our players volunteer regularly for community service activities, such as coaching youth hockey programs, and summer lacrosse camps, working for Habitat for Humanity and at local food banks and soup kitchens.
The Club believes that the privilege our student athletes have to participate in the hockey program carries with it the responsibility of conducting themselves responsibly. As such, all players are subject to the same rules of conduct, discipline, and grade point maintenance as any other athletes at their respective schools.
For those of you who may have questions about the program, or would like to learn more, please feel free to contact any of our current officers, including Warren Culpepper, President at warren.culpepper@anthem.com; Bill Bolger, Treasurer at bill.bolger@indystar.com; or Vic Indiano, Secretary at Gadgetlawyer@yahoo.com.
Please also feel free to contact Mike Kellermeyer, our Head Coach at mkellermeyer@hotmail.com
If you are a student or a parent of a student who will soon be entering high school, we hope that you will seriously consider Cathedral and Bishop Chatard among your high school options. Although they may not be your only options, we believe them to be your best.
We have moved the team photo gallery to a Picasa Web site that will provide us with a more convenient, fuller featured and less expensive alternative to this Eteamz site.
You can access the site by clicking on the headline above, or by going to http://picasaweb.google.com/CathedralChatardHockey/.
Once on the site, you can view the pictures, download the full sized picture(s) to your computer, or send the picture(s) to a printing service. If you have any pictures that you wish to upload to the site, please contact me at gadgetlawyer@yahoo.com for instructions.
Instructions for ordering prints
You can have prints of any picture you wish. Unfortunately, I only have them electronically, and have not printed any of them. If you wish to obtain prints, please do the following:
1. Go to picasa picture site: http://picasaweb.google.com/CathedralChatardHockey/
2.Go to the picture(s) that you wish to print
3. double click on the picture to enlarge it
4. click on the down arrow next to Print (above the picture) and click on "order Print". That particular print will then be added to you potential order.
5. Repeat the process with any other pictures that you wish.
6.When you are finished, click on the down arrow next to the "prints" button (located above the last chosen picture), and click on "view order"
7. Clicking on "View Order" will take you to a screen where you get to choose a provider (e.g. Walgreens, Snapfly, etc)
8. Choose your provider;
9. After you choose your provider, you will then be instructed to click on a button that says "continue to provider.
10. Click on this button. If you do not go the provider, check the top of the screen for a green button that will tell Internet Explorer that it is OK to go to the desired screen; and
11. Follow the provider’s instructions for choosing size of pictures, number of prints, etc.
As an alternative, you can download the pictures on to your computer and then print them yourself, or e-mail them to the provider of your choice.
Hope this helps.
Vic
