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Equipment and Jersey Policies

Boys and Girls Traveling Equipment Policy - Not applicable to goalies

RAHA has a Navy uniform policy for all non-goalie traveling level skaters.  This applies to Bantams, PeeWees, Squirts, 10U, 12U and 14U levels.

A 2nd trim color will be acceptable on the equipment but Navy should be the dominant color when making your equipment selection.

Required navy equipment:

  • Helmet
  • Breezers
  • Gloves

Navy Helmet Examples


Navy Glove Examples


Navy Breezer Examples

Traveling Jersey Policy

All traveling players will buy jerseys and socks each season as part of their season registration. This will provide a set of home and away jerseys and socks. Moving to a parent paid jersey will outfit our players with new sublimated jersey and sock every year and allow them to keep their jersey at the end of the season.

Background

RAHA is growing, and as we get larger we need to look at doing things differently than we have done in the past.

Over the past 5 years RAHA has supplied team sets of jerseys that were passed out at the beginning of the season and handed back in at the end of the season. Those jerseys need to be replaced/updated and with the growing number of teams the old process of reusing the jerseys is becoming a logistical nightmare. It is also costly to keep doing it this way. Currently RAHA pays over $225 a month for the largest storage garage in the Storage facility on 145th Street. That comes to $2700 a year. RAHA needs to have a storage facility, but we should be able cut the storage need in half if we do not need to store the team sets of jerseys. If we buy new sublimated jerseys for all the traveling teams we are looking at a minimum cost of $22,080 for the new set of jerseys.

Rationale
 

1) Why do we choose this style of sock?

A stitched sock is made of the same material as the jerseys. This means that the socks are lighter and they have a velcro strip on the top of the socks to attach to the supporter shorts all the kids wear. These socks come in 2 inch increments for sizing versus the 4 inch increments for the knit socks making them fit better.

2) Why not assign each skater a number and let the kids wear the same jersey for multiple seasons?

This method was considered as a cost saving measure for parents. It would be great if kids could pick a number and wear the same number every year and get new jerseys only when they grow out of them. The problem is that we are too big so we will be get new jerseys each year. This allows us to be creative with the jersey designs and change it up so that the jersey designs don’t get stale.

3) Why are the Junior Gold and 15U girls not buying jerseys this year?

Junior Gold starts later than everyone else and has a shorter season. We also bought 2 sets of jerseys for those teams last year. The 15U girls level is filled with uncertainty at this point. Currently, we are deciding between 1 or 2 teams and we might need to Co-op with other communities. The plan is for them to move to the new jerseys next season.