News and Notes

Birth Verification and Proof of Citizenship

ALL NY DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS

Time to start gathering the Birth Certificates of all your participants for the verificaiton of birth (VOB). In NYSAHA the verification of birth MUST be done for all participants that are 8 and under and all those that are playing on teams that are State and National Bound (TB). However we encourage you to send the birth certificates in for all your participants. Many tournaments are now asking to see rosters with all players verified. Once the verification is complete there is no need to redo the verification unless there is an issue in a future season. Send the birth certificates to your USAH registrar for your section to be verified or to District Registrar Tom Branden.

NY DISTRICT WEST SECTION RULE:

Birth and Citizenship Verification. Prior to roster placement and subsequent approval, a verification and affirmation of each player's birth certificate and citizenship must be completed by a USAH District/Associate Registrar. This applies to all youth and girl's participants and women's TB participants. The club registrar will submit the necessary documents to the USAH registrar to complete the process.

USA Hockey Registry 2018-19

CLUB REGISTRARS

USA Hockey Registry for the 2018-19 season will be available in mid-late July. If you have not completed the request for the USAH registry program for the 1819 season, you must sign into your current registry and complete the info in the “pop-up” window. You will be asked if you will be the returning registrar or if there will be a new registrar. There are exciting improvements with this years program. It is important that all club registrars read the NY Tech Bulletin as there will be changes to how teams will be created: classified, categorized and labeled especially for teams Tournament Bound. The Tech Bull will be linked directly to the USAH Portal. In the meantime enjoy the Fourth of July holiday and be watching for an email from USAH with your Registry access information.

We’re looking forward to a great hockey season. Thanks for all you do for your Program.

Details: Written by NY Registrar NY Registrar

With December 31^st fast approaching, listed here are a few registration reminders:

Rosters are frozen for all state (12u) and national tournament bound (TB) 14u – 19u youth and girl’s teams on 12/31/18. Sections in the NY district that conducted a playdown prior to 12/31/18, should be aware that rosters are frozen as of the playdown start date.

Players are not to be added or dropped on any state and national TB Rosters.
Players can only be listed on 1 TB team.
All other rosters can be changed throughout the season. It is advised that teams check with their club and league if they allow changes to rosters.
High schools have until 2/15/19 to make roster changes

Coaches who do not have a current, unexpired CEP have until 12/31/18 to obtain a current CEP level.
1. Beginning on 1/1/2019, USAH Mandates that any coach not in possession of these certification requirements will be ineligible to coach for the remainder of the season. Districts and/or affiliates are required to uphold this penalty. It will be the responsibility of the local association registering the team to enforce the national policy.

Club registrars should audit their rosters and drop all coaches that do not comply with the rule. Those not in compliance will be redlined.

Credentials:
1. TB teams should be preparing their credential books for participation in the NY district state tournaments. Instructions for putting the books together are located on the NYRegistrar.com website and at this direct link:

https://www.nyregistrar.com/credentials/credential-book-compilation

Remind all teams that scoresheets must reflect their registering club name and not a nickname or other name they may want to call themselves. Those scoresheets that are not in compliance will be considered tainted and WILL NOT COUNT toward the 20/10 team and player requirements.

Players from out of the NY district that are on rosters must have the players release from their district in their credentials book to comply with the NY District rule on releases.

Players from other districts are not eligible to participate on any TB team in NY if they already participated and were eliminated from contention and did not qualify in the registered district for the National tournament.

The current consent to treat form for each TB participant is attached to this email. No other consent to treat form is acceptable and signatures must be in ink and not electronically signed.