The Division Captains have gathered and drafted their rosters for the upcoming SOL Season. Captains will be reaching out to their teams by email over the next couple of days so keep an eye out. In the meantime, the rosters are below so you will know where you landed.

We will once again be holding an evaluation for those registered for the upcoming SOL season that are new to SOL or that haven't played in SOL in several years. Everyone that meets this criteria will receive an email with the details for this skate....but I will put them here as well.

Date: Sunday September 7th

Time: 1:30 - 2:50pm

Location: Rink 2 of the Huntsville Ice Sports Center

Is this Mandatory: Pretty much... this is mutually beneficial to ensure that you end up in the correct division.

What do I do if I can't make it: email me at nahasoldirector@gmail.com

What should I bring: Full gear is required and bring both a black and a white jersey. We will provide numbers to avoid confusion with duplicates.

What should I expect: The skate is about 90 minutes long with approximately 50% skills drills and 50% scrimmage. Teams will be a mix of skill levels and evaluations will be performed by captains and coaches.

As always, if you have questions please send me an email

Stephanie

Goalies....

If you do not see an open Goalie registration DO NOT register as a skater!!!

ALL dedicated goalie spots are full! The goalie sub registration is open!

Registration Update - September 8th 11:00am

A Division: Goalie - Full Skater - 4 open spots

B Division: Goalie - Full Skater - 10 open spots

C Division: Goalie - Full Skater - FULL! waitlist open

D Division: Goalie - Full Skater - FULL! waitlist open

O40: Goalie - Full Skater - FULL! waitlist open

It’s that time! Registration for the upcoming 2025-26 SOL Fall/Winter Season is now OPEN!

A few details…

1.     Cost: Skater - $567 and Goalie - $284

2.     How many games? 21 plus single elimination playoffs

3.     Is there payment plan? YES!! You may opt to break your fee up into a total of 3 payments.

4.     There are 5 Divisions

a.    A Division – 4 teams

b.    B Division – 6 teams

c.    C Division – 6 teams

d.    D Division – 4 teams

e.    Over 40 – 6 teams

5.     When are games played? All games are on Sundays typically between 2:00pm and 10:00pm. All teams and all divisions rotate through the timeslots throughout the course of the season.

6.     The season starts October 5^th

7.     Drafts will be held the week of September 14^th

8.     If you are new to SOL or haven’t played in SOL in a few years you will need to attend an evaluation skate. If this pertains to you then you will receive an email with the evaluation skate information.

SOL is about playing at the appropriate skill level, it is NOT a “bring a team” league. You are registering for a draft! There is not a guarantee that you will play on the same team as last season, unless you were protected for this season, in which case you are already registered. If you are not willing to play on whatever team you are drafted to, you need to reconsider registering, refunds will NOT be issued. Your SOL Committee and team captains have been working hard behind the scenes to ensure that everyone is placed in the division that best matches their current skill level – so we can all enjoy the most fun, competitive hockey possible from day one. If you received an email indicating that you need to register for a different division this year, please abide by this…should you register for the incorrect division, your registration will be moved to the correct division. We are hoping to minimize having to move players once the season starts, but it is possible that this will still need to happen and is at the discretion of division captains, the SOL Committee and the Director. It is recommended that when purchasing jerseys you take this into consideration as SOL is not responsible for reimbursement of their cost in the case of team or division changes.

In regard to refunds SOL and Crossbar have teamed up with Vertical Insure to offer a supplemental insurance for our members, this insurance covers the cost of your SOL fees should you be forced to withdraw due to a number of covered reasons. SOL has an “all sales are final” no refund policy, it is recommended that you pickup the supplemental policy. You can take a look Vertical Insure here. An option to add this to your registration will be available during the checkout portion of your registration.

This is going to be an awesome season!!!

As always, if you have any questions email me at nahasoldirector@gmail.com

Respectfully

Stephanie Jeffrey

NAHA Adult Hockey Director

If you were registered for the 2024-25 SOL Season, you have been sent an email with a link to a survey.

This is a short survey to help in making a few decisions about the upcoming 2025-26 Fall/Winter SOL Season. It should not take you more than 2 minutes to complete and your responses will be used to guide the Director (me 😉), the Deputy Director, and the SOL Committee in making a couple of key decisions. The survey went active and emails sent out at 5:50 p.m. today (7/11) and will remain open for responses until 6:00 p.m. Monday July 14th.

If you did not get an email....

1. Check your spam/trash folders, the email comes from notifications@nahasol.org
2. Didn't find it there? check your CrossBar account settings on the nahasol.org website....if you did not opt to receive emails you should probably change that.

Let me know if you have any problems with the survey.... not expecting any because in less than 15 minutes we already have 27 responses! NICE JOB!!!!

Thank you everyone!

Stephanie

The Huntsville City Council has unanimously approved the contract for the rink expansion! We will have more details in the next week or so, but work is expected to start very soon!

A huge thank you and congratulations to the Management and BOC of the Ice Sports Center!

This coming Friday June 20th is officially summer! There are still a few days left of spring to get that "spring cleaning" finished up. If you come across any unused hockey gear hanging out in your garage/closet/basement please consider donating it to NAHA. We are in need of adult gear for those new to hockey that aren't yet ready to purchase gear. If you have gear that you would like to donate, you may bring it to the Hockey Office at the rink and Martin will gladly accept it. NAHA is a non-profit organization so your donations may be tax deductible.

This coming Saturday June 21st is The Longest Game fundraiser....12 hours of ice time! This years event will benefit the Russell Hill Cancer Foundation at Clearview Cancer Institute. This event is not affiliated with NAHA but is definitely a great one to support. You can get more info and register here: Longest Game

Upcoming Adult Hockey Dates:

• June 23, 2025 Registration opens for ADP Session 7/14-9/1/2025
• July 7, 2025 Registration opens for ADL Session 34 8/7-10/23/2025
• August 31, 2025 USA Hockey memberships expire
• this applies to memberships renewed prior to April 1, 2025

As always, any questions you can reach me at nahasoldirector@gmail.com

Steph

A huge thank you to all 386 of you that chose to play hockey with SOL this past season! Your participation in NAHA and in SOL is greatly appreciated, we wouldn't be here without you. I want to give a HUGE thank you to a few people that make my job a whole lot easier, and that I appreciate more than they can ever understand:

• Tommy Blackwell - Deputy Director and head of the SOL Disciplinary Committee - my right hand ... and arm ...and leg!
• Lori Kantmann - Scorekeeper Scheduler and the one you see sitting in that box freezing her 🍑 off for a huge percentage of the games
• Mike Brown - Referee Scheduler and Referee - Mike makes sure that we have officials and is always proactive in heading off issues
• The members of the SOL Disciplinary Committee - Chris, Bob, and Troy - you guys have spent waaaay too much time handling issues this season, but you didn't bail on me and made sound decisions. I appreciate these guys for always taking the time to research and review!

There were some great games yesterday!! A couple of overtime shootout wins and a long but awesome day! I will be posting the pics that I took yesterday and I noticed a few folks with "real cameras" if anyone wants to share some of those pics I would love to put them up on the Division pages of our site.

That said, we are always looking to improve our league and welcome your feedback. It won't be long before we start planning the Fall 2025-26 Season (evaluation skate is already scheduled) so if you have suggestions or comments on what you really liked or didn't like, please email me at nahasoldirector@gmail.com. There are a few things that restrict what we can change, like ice availability and rates, but we do our best to listen and try and come up with solutions.

Thank you again! and enjoy the next couple of weeks off... play in a tournament or two and get some rest.

Respectfully,

Stephanie

NAHA Adult Hockey Director

Hi Everyone!

and I do mean EVERYONE.....we are moving all of the NAHA Adult Hockey Programs to CrossBar. In the coming weeks there will be changes to portions of this website to accommodate the addition of the other programs, but the home page will stay the same...info and updates!

Fall/Winter 2024-25 Season

The season is winding down quickly! There are only 4 regular season games left and then it's on to playoffs. A quick reminder that playoffs are single elimination and are scheduled as follows:

• April 13th round 1 all divisions
• April 27th semifinals for 6 team divisions, and championship games for all divisions.

Summer 2025

We are working on getting everything ready for Summer SOL registration, but here is what we do know:

• Registration will start April 27th after the current season officially ends
• This summer will be very similar to last summer (2024)
• 3 divisions (Upper, Middle, and Lower)
• 4 teams per division
• FULL DRAFT (scheduled for May 18th)
• 10 Games - no playoffs
• The schedule currently looks like this but is subject to change:

A quick shoutout and BIG thank you to the C2 Division Bandits team!!! with only 16 team penalty minutes they are currently the least penalized team in the entirety of SOL!! Thank you guys for adhering to the "DBAD" rule! Your Disciplinary Committee and I appreciate it!

See you at the rink!

Steph