Titans Ice Hockey Will Play Again Next Season

The merged Rye Town/Harrison ice hockey team raised enough money to play another year.

During this year's budget negotiations the hockey team was cut, but the team was allowed to form a booster club to raise money to play. At Monday night's Blind Brook Board of Education meeting, hockey parents and booster members Ellen Bass and Cindy Jacobs talked about the success of their fundraising and their frustrations with the budget cuts.

While they admitted to being upset and angry that after 12 years the hockey team was cut from the school budget, they said they decided to act. They needed to raise $30,000 in three short months and with the requirement that they not hold fundraising events within 30 days of Blind Brook Enrichment Program (BBEP).  Still, the booster club succeeded in raising over $40,000.

Bass and Jacobs thanked the generosity and support of the community and surrounding community and said hockey is an important part of who the kids are and who they will become.

They also urged the board to reconsider including the hockey team in the 2011-2012 school budget.