WHL Announces Formation of WHL Alumni Association
November 7, 2007 - Western Hockey League (WHL) News Release
Calgary, AB - Western Hockey League Commissioner Ron Robison announced today the WHL has formally established a WHL Alumni Association.
The WHL Alumni Association will take an active role in assisting with the operation and promotion of the WHL at both the Club and League level. The WHL Alumni Association will provide a medium through which past players, coaches, officials and management personnel can reconnect with former teammates and continue to make a contribution to the growth and development of the WHL.
Initial plans for the WHL Alumni Association will include the establishment of a database system for Alumni communications and an Alumni speaker's bureau to assist the WHL with key public messaging. The WHL Alumni will also be reviewing the ways, in the future, to further enhance the WHL developmental experience for players, coaches and officials, and to encourage all WHL Clubs to establish their own local Alumni organizations.
The WHL Alumni Association will be headed by former NHL goaltender and Medicine Hat Tiger, Kelly Hrudey, who will serve as the Association's first President. Hrudey will be joined on the WHL Alumni Association Executive by Dell Chapman, Vice President (Saskatoon/Billings '73-'78) and Members at Large; Cal Ellerby (Calgary '77-'79), Daryl Henry (Billings/Nanaimo/Kelowna/Medicine Hat '81-'84), John Gordon (Victoria '75-'77), Warren Skorodenski (Calgary '77-'80), Gable Gross (Kamloops, Regina, Medicine Hat '97-'02), Jeff Marshall (Regina '79-'80), Clayton Norris (Medicine Hat '88-'93) and Ron Sutter (Lethbridge '80-'83).
"By establishing a WHL Alumni Association it will allow us to not only stay in contact with former WHL players, coaches and officials but also allow our Alumni to take a meaningful role in the future operations of the WHL on a League wide basis," commented WHL Commissioner Ron Robison.
"The WHL Alumni Association will allow former WHL players to become directly associated with the League again," commented Alumni President Kelly Hrudey, "We have all benefited from our experiences and look forward to assisting the League with some new initiatives in the future."
The WHL Alumni Association Executive is meeting today in Calgary to review the implementation of programs for the 2007-08 season. The WHL Alumni Association Executive will be scheduling regular meetings this season as it begins to develop a long term strategy for the Association.
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