Junior Talons Inline Hockey Athletic Development
The CEIHF junior program is designed to recruit and develop the future for Talons Hockey while ensuring the longevity of elite and competitive Colorado inline hockey

Through appropriate teaching models we can enhance a young player's existing athletic skills to improve the important hockey fundamentals, and mechanics critical to athletic and team success.

FUN FOR ALL
The Colorado Elite Inline Hockey Federation (CEIHF) wants to introduce its “Buddy Up with Hockey” a fun fitness program for Denver Metro youth. Our celebrity inline hockey athletes are joined with younger children from elementary and middle schools from around our inner city communities to introduce kids to the benefits of skating for fitness.

FOR BETTER HEALTH
The CEIHF Major League players will visit schools to provide 30-minute demonstrations of exercise on skates. These specifically designed fitness exercises are similar to what the players do within their own fitness and conditioning routines, but adapted and designed for grade school and middle school kids.

FITNESS AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Elementary and middle school children will especially enjoy the one-to-one attention they receive from their older Buddy Up partner.

They make comments such as, "He makes me feel special; he says nice things to me!" and “We do lots of fun things together. He’s my friend."

Teachers report that participation in buddy programs enhances children’s cooperative learning behaviors such as taking turns, listening, sharing knowledge, praising another’s effort, helping one another, and completing a task. Due to the extra attention and assistance, the younger children’s work often improves.