Titans Sponsors. Dean is the matriarch. This website is powered by the SportsEngine platform, but is owned by and subject to the Titans Hockey privacy policy. But right now, the kids are pushing, the parents are pushing, the coaches are pushing. We are grateful your support. To donate to the Georgetown Titans Youth Hockey Program, please click on "Continue" and follow the steps on the next page. “The other team parents are the uncles or aunts, and then you have the other players that are like brothers and sisters or cousins, coming together to work as a team,” Baker, 16, said. The program usually fields two teams — a high school and an under-13 Peewee squad — to play teams such as the Columbus Ice Hockey Club in Ohio or the local Georgetown Titans. Neal Henderson, a former hockey player who had recently moved to the area, was eager to teach his son the game, and pretty soon he had a group of kids coming to play at the Fort Dupont Ice Arena in Southeast Washington. Joel Ward, the only black player on the Washington Capitals, visited a recent practice to present a donation from the team as part of its “Teammates for Kids” program. “This is one of the reasons why I keep coming,” he said. A Tucker Road Ducks player ready for action. He settled in Springdale, Md., in 1966, where he hosed down his driveway during the winter to teach his 10-year-old son and neighbors basic hockey skills. With a tournament in York, Pennsylvania, looming next month, Ducks coaches hope to supplement the donated ice with rented ice time – if they can find any in the youth hockey-mad D.C., Maryland, Virginia area. “You do what kids in the neighborhood do,” Henderson said of his upbringing. Other youth teams in the area charge two or three times that amount for a season. “What about building two sheets of ice?” she said. To make the joy and benefits of ice hockey accessible to ALL young people, we rely on your generosity. They find the program by catching a glimpse of the team during summer camps at Fort Dupont, like Baker did, or on the recommendation of a friend. The noise swells as teams shuffle ice times, and parents and their children work out carpool arrangements. We are trying to break down some of those barriers.”. Today, nearly four decades later, the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club remains almost entirely African American, a rarity in a sport historically dominated by white players. Henderson, 76, is the constant through it all. They also learn to interact with others beyond their neighborhoods. The Tucker Road Ducks, a three-year-old team  made up of African-American boys ages 11 to 14, had a healthy slate of games this season, its first ever road tournament coming up in March, and tons of practice time at the Tucker Road Ice Rink, its home barn in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Georgetown Titans were in trouble. Henderson, 76, is the founder of the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club, which gives kids of all colors a chance to learn the sport. The Georgetown Titans also opened its practice ice at the District of Columbia’s Fort Dupont Ice Arena, to Ducks players. Ducks player Ryan Hamm, 13, can’t wait for Maryland’s Tucker Road ice rink to be repaired so the team can have its home rink back. “When a kid comes off a trip like that, he’s not the same kid that went on that trip,” Henderson said. The rink remains closed more than a month after the blaze. When word spread about the fire, the Knights – an Arlington, Virginia, youth hockey team  – offered to share some of its ice time at  The Gardens Ice House in Laurel, Maryland. The Washington, D.C.-area hockey community has pitched in to help. Henderson sees hockey as a tool. Briggs-Blake dreams of the day the Ducks go back to their house – the Tucker Road ice rink. Parents are bird-dogging the Prince George’s County government, trying to insure that the rink is a front-burner issue and will be rebuilt sooner rather than later. The faces change over the years — players come and go, they graduate from high school and move on to colleges and jobs in new cities — but with each generation comes another group of D.C.-area youth eager to join.

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