Thursday, December 16, 2010

GLADES ANNOUNCE PERSONNEL CHANGES

Press Release

Burlington, VT – The Green Mountain Glades Junior Hockey Program performed several mid-season moves in an effort to re-organize and re-energize its club as it seeks to head in a new direction with its EJHL club. Green Mountain Glades, is a subsidiary of Selects Sports Management, Inc. (www.selectshockey.com), a globalhockey company focused on the development of youth and junior athletes. The changes included the re-assignment of Team GM Dennis Himes to Team Governor and the dismissal of the EJHL Head Coach Chris Line.

“It is always unfortunate to make changes in the middle of the season although we felt that we need to do a much better job of connecting with the community, the youth programs, the players and the league. In order to effectively do this we felt that a change in the leadership was necessary.” said Travis Bezio the COO of Selects Sports Management, Inc. and Interim GM of the team.

David Pavlik the Head Coach of the Glades Empire team will be the Interim Head Coach of the EJHL team while Travis Bezio will be the Interim GM and responsible to evaluate the future needs of the organization.

“Chris and Dennis have been a valued members of our team for the last few seasons and it is unfortunate that we needed to make these changes, especially mid-season however we feel it is necessary to re-organize and re-energize our club in order to provide the best program for our players.” said John St.Pierre the CEO of Selects Sports Management, Inc.

(Nathan can be reached at fourniern@students.nescom.edu)

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