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The Hong Kong Academy of Ice Hockey (HKAIH), founded in 2007, is a non-profit sport association with the objective of promoting and developing ice hockey as a sport for all in Hong Kong.
Mission
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Promote ice hockey as a sport for all |
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Collaborate with various government bodies and charitable and youth organizations to provide a wide range of ice hockey training programs for the benefit of the community as a whole |
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Target the grass roots with a view to developing interest and potentials of youngsters in the sport |
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Subsidize ice hockey programs in local schools with a view to identifying and nurturing talented local players |
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Organize exhibition games and exchange programs to widen the horizon of youngsters |
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Strategy
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Focus efforts in local primary and secondary schools: demonstrate ice hockey in action and enable teachers and students to understand more about the sport; |
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Develop diversified hockey programs in a professional way |
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Introduce synthetic ice rink In view of a severe lack of ice-time in the next 3 years |
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Successfully held Hong Kong’s first ever School Ice Hockey League in 2009, opening up a new horizon of the sport for local schools |
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Organize various exchange activities to enable students to familiarize with the world of international ice hockey |
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Extensive marketing plan to promote the sport and school programs through various channels including the mass media in particular the electronic media |
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Founder : Mr. Thomas J. Wu
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Honorary Patrons |
| ĄDMr. Thomas J. Wu, Chairman |
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ĄDThe Hon Ronald Arculli, GBS, JP |
| ĄDLady Ivy Wu, JP |
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ĄDThe Hon Victor Lo, GBS, OBE, JP |
| ĄDMs. Shelley Lee, GBS, OBE, JP |
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Mr Chui Sai-Cheong [Member of the Macau SAR Legislature] |
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| ĄDMr. Fong Hup, MH |
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ĄDDr Allan Zeman, GBS, JP |
| ĄDMr. Calvin Tien |
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ĄDDr Rosanna Wong, DBE, JP |
| ĄDMr. Laputa Poon |
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ĄDMr. Wilfred Ng MH,JP |
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ĄDMr Adrian Li |
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ĄDMr Daryl Ng |
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Achievement
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Conducted free demonstrations in 150 schools involving some 18,086 student since its establishment in 2007 |
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Run regular on-ice training courses for 370 youth players every week |
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Set up the Hong Kong's first synthetic ice rink in a Tung Chung school in the summer of 2011 and run ice hockey programs for over 1,700 youths in the whole Islands District |
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Establish Hong Kong’s first ice hockey league for local schools participated by 3 primary schools and 6 secondary schools in the 2010-2011 season |
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Invited the Croatian National Ice Hockey Team to visit Hong Kong in 2008 for friendly exhibition games and cultural exchanges. This is the first national team ever to visit Hong Kong |
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Organized summer camps in Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai for youth players in Hong Kong in the years 2009-2011 |
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Arranged students from local schools and youth organizations to see for themselves exciting competition games at the annual HKAHC International Tournament since 2008 and learn the basics of ice hockey |
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Assisted in the production of numerous local TV drama series, documentaries and movies with ice hockey themes or features |
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Broadcast championship games in Hong Kong live over the local TV network for the first time in the history of Hong Kong |
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First hockey organization in Hong Kong to receive the Caring Organization Award from the Hong Kong Council of Social Services since 2008 |
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