Information for the 2025-2026 Season

See Minnesota Hockey or USA Hockey websites for requirements and instructions.

Refer to 2025-2026 RYHA Coach Requirements

To maintain consistency, promote RYHA, and decrease confusion do not give your team an unauthorized name. Your team name is the sponsor of your team

No unauthorized pieces of the uniform should be worn by teams to include, breezer shells, socks, stickers, etc. There is a Rochester approved sticker that can be used

The maximum fee that can be charged families is $100 (does not include tournament fees)

2025-2026 Travel Guideline

Half Boards Instructions

TM - SQ Goalies should attend as many of the goalie sessions as possible. Recommended that they attend goalie practices vs team practices if they conflict

In order for coaches to coach and players to play team rosters must be approved. Coaching certifications for all coaches must be completed for coach to be rostered.

Managers – Make sure your managers see the 2025-2026 Manager’s Information document 

• Coaches please review this document yourself so you understand and can support the role of the manager.

Pizza parent – Can be the manager as well. Coaches should help the manager find 1-2 volunteers per team for the pizza turn in day

• Coaches cannot be the pizza parent or manager

Locker room Attendants

1. Coaches can be monitors
2. One coach can monitor with more than one child in the room
3. Two adults must monitor if there is only one child in the room
4. If the monitor is a parent, they must be screened as a volunteer
5. safe sport?
6. USA Hockey?
7. Reimbursed from Kathy?

Varies by level. After all your scheduling, you may have ice to turn back in to Doug. Please do that ASAP, don’t sit on ice you are not going to use. 

Ice that isn’t turned back in is $185 of wasted money. Teams that do not turn in ice and do not use it may have the equivalent amount of your ice taken to pay for the losses

RYHA Classroom Guidelines 

Sponsorship for Coaches and Manager

This will need to be updated with the new Crossbar workflow

1. Approved colors only for all parts of the apparel - RHYA black, red, white, or grey
2. Only the RYHA approved team sponsors name or logo can be added
3. No made up team names can be on the uniform
4. Ensure families understand that purchasing team apparel is optional

Your team’s home tournaments solely function on volunteers. Depending on the size, every family is expected to volunteer a minimum of 5 hours at each tournament. 

Each tournament is set up to attempt to avoid having parents miss their own child’s game, but can't be guaranteed. It is vital that each family contribute equally. The brunt of the volunteering for tournaments shouldn't fall on a few families.

Coach will need to assist the managers to encourage all families to volunteer.

1. Sportsmanship/Conduct Discipline
2. Sportsmanship Committee
3. Unit Coordinators
4. Violations by Players, Parents, Coaches
5. See Parent Code of Conduct document
6. See Player Conduct Related Operating Procedures

Recruitment, development, and retention of referees at all levels is challenging. We continue to lose quality, experienced refs. Please keep this in mind during your interactions with them. Some of our referees, especially at the lower levels, are less experienced and are still learning so help us make it a positive experience for them.

See Arbiter Instructions & Game Length-Game Type Guide

MN Hockey Locker Room Policy