Giving Back
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SHELTON, Conn. -- Quinnipiac Head Coach Rand Pecknold held a
coaching clinic October 7 at The Rinks at Shelton in Shelton, Conn.
for the Greater Bridgeport Junior Hockey Association. Pecknold, a
resident of Southport, Conn., associate head coach Ben Syer and
assistant coach Graham Johnson spoke to 33 coaches on running a
practice for youth hockey players.
“This was a great event,” Pecknold said. “I
think we really helped them out in terms of showing them how to run
a practice and also providing them with a practice template that
they could bring back to their teams.”
Several Bobcat players were in attendance to help with the on-ice
segment of the instructional clinc. Senior Chris Myers
(Wallaceberg, Ontario), juniors Jean-Marc Beaudoin (St. Paul,
Alberta) and Mike Atkinson (Sparta, N.J.), sophomore Zach Hansen
(White Bear Lake, Minn.) and freshman Spencer Heichman (Yorba
Linda, Calif.) aided Pecknold and his coaching staff with the
clinic.
The coaches clinic served as part of the Quinnipiac Athletics
Positive Play initiative, which promotes community service for all
Quinnipiac student-athletes. In the past, the men’s ice
hockey team has traveled to several elementary schools as part of
national reading week, in addition to their visit to Yale-New Haven
Children’s Hospital to donate over 600 stuffed animals and
most recently the Blades & Shaves event to benefit St.
Baldrick’s for children’s cancer research.
