Haverhill Valley Forum What Sets Us Apart

What Sets Us Apart
Haverhill Valley Forum
Premier Facility
Forum its home. The two-rink facility features a private locker room, video/player lounge area, full-service pro shop with
skate sharpening and a heated mezzanine area for comfortable viewing of all home games.
Unlimited Ice Time - As owners and operators of three facilaccess to unlimited ice time for practice, power-skating and
individual sessions.
Private Locker Rooms - The Haverhill Valley Forum
and A/V room.
On-Site Strength & Conditioning Center - Since September 2011, the Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning Center
zanine level of the Haverhill Valley Forum. Mike Boyle is
of strength and conditioning and is regarded as one of the
top experts in the area of sports performance training. For
more than 25 years he has worked with the Boston University hockey team and he currently helps to train the United
has trained top collegiate and professional athletes from the
Boston Bruins, Boston Breakers and New England Revolution. His client list over the years includes such local notables
* Home of the Valley Jr Warriors *
7 Parkridge Road
Haverhill, Massachusetts 01835
Tel: (978) 557-5518
Fax: (978) 557-5519
February 2007. The state-of-the-art, twin rinks facility is one of
the premier rinks in the Northeast. The Valley Forum serves as
a spacious team locker room and players lounge.
Two 200’ x 85’ playing surfaces
room and players lounge
Full-service pro shop with skate sharpening
More than 800 spectator seats
Glassed-enclosed mezzanine level
Arcade and concessions onsite
contact Andy Heinze, Director of Hockey Operations, at
[email protected] or visit the team web site at
www.jrwarriors.com.
What Sets Us Apart
History of Excellence in three of the past four years.
About the Program
to preparing those young players who are looking to move
college course per semester. This allows the student athlete
Metropolitan Hockey League.
Valley Jr Warriors Junior A team can offer young players:
Recruitment of four to six major recruiting showcases and tournaments,
Experienced Coaching - Head Coach/General Manager Andy Heinze is the only EHL Coach who has collegiate
coaching experience. Heinze spent nine years as an assistant coach at Merrimack College and has developed relationships with scores of Division I and III college coaches across
the nation.
Eastern Hockey League
League franchises.
cover hockey rich markets in the Northeast.
Strive for Excellence
Junior Team Coaching Staff & Prominent Alumni
Andy Heinze
Head Coach/General Manager
A former collegiate coach and professional player, Andy Heinze has nearly
two decades of experience coaching
and developing junior-level hockey
players. Heinze has served as the
operations and the head coach/general
manager of the EHL team since 1999.
ored as the Coach of the Year. He received that honor again in
riors, the program has placed more than 100 NCAA Division I
& III players and maintains a strict commitment of developing
student athletes. During the 2012-13 season, Heinze placed 16
of his players at top collegiate institutions - many of which are
Division I powerhouses - and was the only league coach with
collegiate coaching experience.
On the ice Heinze played at Merrimack College where he served
as team captain during the 1989-90 season before a three-year
his almater where he served as an assistant from 1993 to 1999.
Jeremy Tabb
Assistant Coach - Junior A
program. He has an extensive background in training young players and
improving their overall skills. His work
on stride and skating development for
numerous teams and individuals has made him well known in
the hockey community. He has also owned and operated the
Owner Pride Hockey School since 2008. A 1990 graduate of
Cathedral High School. Tabb went on to enjoy a successful
playing career at UMass-Lowell and Elmira College and then
as a professional player for four years in France.
Peter Heinze
Assistant Coach - Junior A
Pete Heinze was a standout defenseman at the UMass-Lowell
from 1985-88. The eldest Heinze brother was a former draft
pick of the Edmonton Oilers. He has been involved in youth and
junior hockey since 1990.
Eric Brown
Assistant Coach - Junior A / Head Coach - Junior B
program with a wealth of high-level playing and
coaching experience. A 1995 graduate of
UMass-Lowell, Brown was a four-year
scholarship player for the nationally-ranked program. He went on to
enjoy a three-year professional
playing career before taking over
as vice president of the Greg Carter
European Hockey School where he
oversaw all on and off-ice activities.
From 2009 through 2012, he served
as head varsity hockey coach for
Prominent Alumni
sistently placed players in the top Division I, II and II schools
in the country. Many of those student-athletes have used their
Our alumni have gone on to attend a diverse number of institutions including the following:
Babson College
Bentley College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Clarkson University
Colby College
Dartmouth College
Elmira College
Harvard University
Merrimack College
Niagara University
Northeastern University
Quinnipiac College
Sacred Heart University
Salem State College
St. Anselm College
St. Lawrence University
Suffolk University
Trinity College
Tufts University
University of Maine
UMass-Amherst
UMass-Boston
UMass-Dartmouth
UMass-Lowell
Union College
UNH
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