Charles River Blazers

Website: http://bochblazers.com/
Email: dnolan@bochice.com;
Phone: 617-816-0620

Address:
1105 East Street
Dedham, MA 02026

Charles River / Boch Blazers
Program History

In the spring of 1997, a group of avid hockey parents from four neighboring towns gathered together for a discussion of girls' hockey in the Boston area.  With the limited number of girls in each town, the feeling was that the players would be served better by combining the teams to form a regional program.  From that discussion, the Charles River program was born.  There were 3 teams that first year.  At the end of the season, a team of Charles River girls travelled to Europe, playing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  Now 16 years later, the program boasts 10 teams with over 150 girls.  Charles River is one of the largest girl's programs in Massachusetts.  For all those years, we have held a tournament in February hosting teams from Canada, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Maine and California, to name a few.

The purpose of the program has been and continues to be to develop girls into hockey players with the tools necessary to continue playing the game of hockey for as long as they desire, whether that be through high school, college, pick up leagues or a European professional career and, most importantly, with the life skills needed for a successful life.  We have helped to produce an Olympian and have sent girls to play hockey at over thirty colleges, including Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown, Northeastern, Maine and even a captain to Boston College. With our new home rink at the Boch Ice Center, we can offer our players convenient, consistent ice time throughout the season for practices and skills sessions. We at Charles River Girls Hockey look forward to many more successful years for our players.

As of two years ago Charles River merged with the Boch Blazers program and now runs as a "sister" girls program under one organization.

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