Kansas City Stars Hockey

My name is J-F Quintin. I am your new Travel Hockey Director for the KC Stars organization. I am very excited to meet the challenge of helping this organization reach the next level. Our goal is to become one of the most respected travel programs in the country. I want to thank Pat Ferschweiler for what he has done to establish and grow our program from its inception. Without his efforts, we would not be where we are today. 

To achieve our goal, every family must be proud to be a part of this organization. They must understand and appreciate the added value we bring and for each player to have fun and develop during the hockey season. The experience must be enjoyable and rewarding for the entire family as well.

Our Hockey Director, Tom Tilley, has promised to improve communication as one of our goals. Consistent with his promise, it is my pleasure to announce our travel coaches for the 2009-2010 Season. Our coaches and I look forward to meeting everyone and are excited to get the season started.

One of my duties will be to help the travel coaches raise the bar with practices focusing on skill development. By developing individual and team skills, we will raise the level of play for each team. My expectations are for every player to have a great experience, improve their hockey skills and promote life lessons and personal qualities that are uniquely suited to playing hockey (friendship, teamwork, dedication, hard work, discipline, respect, success, failure, etc….). I know for a fact that players improve with great practices, great coaching and competition. The coaches we have selected are highly qualified and look forward to these challenges and are very excited for this coming season. We have included a small bio of all coaches for you to read. I will be working with each coaching staff to promote coaching education and development and to implement consistent teaching and philosophy at all levels. I am also dedicated to educating parents on what travel hockey means and what their expectations should be at each level.

Finally, while my primary responsibility will be to the travel program, I will continue to work with Tom Tilley and others to support the transition of players from the house program to the select and travel programs. Our travel program cannot flourish without a strong and well-populated house program based on fun and skill development.

As stated, effective communication at all levels is essential to our success. Tom Tilley and I will continue to work very hard to keep the communication with parents as open as possible. During try-outs, Tom and I will conduct short meetings with all parents from each travel age group, as well as answer any questions parents might have. We believe that well informed parents will be in a better position to make the right decisions for their players and their families.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Good luck to all players at try-outs.

Sincerely,

J-F Quintin