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Hal Tearse:

My playing career began with youth hockey in the Wayzata area and then four years of Varsity experience at a college prep school. I spent a year on the JV at the University of Denver and during late October of my sophomore year sustained a career ending injury at the University of Minnesota. At that point, I decided to coach and teach hockey. I made that decision in 1971.

Since then I have coached players and teams at all ages from squirts all the way up through Junior A and college players. I was fortunate to spend two weeks with the Soviet Jr. National Team, coached the Midwest team at the National Sports Festival pre-Olympic camp and coached the USHL All Star team in Leysin, Switzerland. In the early eighties I teamed up with Jack Blatherwick to run pre-season training for junior, college and pro players with his OverSpeed training methods.

From 1999 through the 2003-2004 season I served USA Hockey as the Coach in Chief for District 3 in Minnesota certifying nearly 2,000 coaches in the CEP program for Minnesota Hockey. I have also coached in the Select 15 and 17 programs in Minnesota during the past four years. I am a member of the Player Development Committee for Minnesota Hockey. From 1998 through 2004 I served as the Head Coach for the Wayzata Bantam A team which made five regional finals appearances and two trips to the State Bantam A Tournament finishing first and third. In May of 2004, I was elected Coach in Chief for Minnesota Hockey and was appointed the Boys Varsity Hockey Coach at Providence Academy in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Power Skating has been a central theme to my philosophy of coaching and I have learned from the best instructors in the world. As is often quoted,” If you cannot skate, you cannot play this game”.

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