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Friday, June 30
Where Are They Now
We are looking for information on any grads of NMAHA travel hockey, going back the formative years in the mid-60's. To pull our annual Alumni tournament together (already booked for Dec. 27-29 or 30), we want to contact every alumni travel player possible in hopes of getting them out to the tournament. We hope to have six teams this Christmas and want to locate all the grads who have moved elsewhere on the planet, but are back in Albuquerque for the holidays. Some we will make come back, we just have to find them first! If we can come up with a credible roster for kids from any particular year or split years, they can be allowed to play as a team whether or not we can round up their original coach. We need a dozen heads to count, minimum, and that would make up an entrant team.---Byy the way, we need contact information on anyone who was instrumental in NMAHA's growth over the years--coaches, sponsors, ref's,Because NMAHA is such a grand old gal, we want to gather together all the people who helped make it what it was--is.
Contact grant harvey , grnharvey7@aol.com phone, 304-3978 or Dorothy Elza, delza@pnm.com, phone 241-2269
Sunday, June 4
JOEY MEESE TRAVEL ALUMNI TOURNAMENT SET FOR DECEMBER 2006
By GRANT HARVEY
No one imagined how successful the second annual "One Life to Live", Joey Meese memorial NMAHA travel alumni tournament would turn out as 2005 came to an end.
Initial mailers sent out to perspective players for the tournament which will be held annually between Christmas and New Years, suggested players would be competing in a three-team go round that would add a little fun to the slack schedule for most during the holidays. By the time the puck dropped for the beginning of the first game, organizers were scrambling to cram late-comers onto the already filled rosters of four teams.
What started off as a tentative battle between the current Midget AA team, a team composed of recent NMAHA travel grads and UNM players, and a resurrected Red Devils team from the late 90's, broadened into four-team scramble with former players of all ages searching through storage sheds and closets for forgotten elbow pads and too-small, unsharpened skates.
Needless to say.........
At this point in the 2006 schedule, organizers are confident a six-team tournament is not only reasonable but quite likely. The goal of promoters is to make personal contact with every NMAHA travel grad by summer's end in preparation for the late 2006 event.
With this in mind, NMAHA members and supporters are solicited to provide any phone numbers, e-mail addresses or other clues as to where these elusive scoundrels are currently residing.
Because so many of our NMAHA travel grads still come home to be with mommy and daddy and beat up on their little brothers at Christmas, we want them to be aware there are important hockey games to be played right here in River City, Dec.27-9.
One of the sad routines we found last year were that players that flew into Albuquerque for vists where scheduled for flights out of here the first day of the tournament. Because of the international attention this tournament has earned in its short two-year existence, we don't want anyone to miss a chance to star in the show.
Contact Dorothy Elza @ delza@PNM.com or 241-2269, or Grant Harvey at grnharvey7@AOL.com, phone 304-3978
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