Along with coaching duties, our coaches act as a player development staff.  They spend countless hours counseling and advising players and parents on what course of action is best for them to pursue.  The coaches regularly take time out of their busy schedules to contact junior and prep school coaches on behalf of numerous Saints players. 

    Director of Hockey Operations for the San Diego Saints, Jason Galea is in constant contact with scouts and coaches throughout North America and Canada.  Through his contacts Jason has been able to get a number of Saints players into some of the most highly scouted exposure and junior camps in North America.  
  
  Last season every Saints travel team participated in the highest scouted tournaments in Canada and North America. Our Midget u16AA team participated in the Richmond International Tournament just outside of Vancouver.  This tournament is the highest scouted Midget Tournament on the west coast bringing in over 100 scouts and coaches from various junior, prep, and college teams.  As a result of the Saints coaching staff actively promoting their players five of the Saints Midget players were seen and recruited to play at a higher level.  Our Bantam u14A team participated in a Bantam open Tournament outside of Vancouver in which members of the NHL Central Scouting staff were in attendance. And our Peewee u12A team participated in a tournament in Ottawa Ontario in which teams from all over the world participated. In that tournament, our Peewee team had the opportunity to play in the Scotia Bank Place Arena where the Ottawa Senators Play. 

---

Moving Forward

    Our mission is to provide every Saints player with every available opportunity to improve and showcase their talents in order to reach their hockey and scholastic dreams.  In our short existence our program has managed to produce an impressive list of graduates that are playing at a higher level. 

Saints Alumni

*Andrew Cloonan (’91) is currently a member for the Division 1 Michigan State Champions St. Mary’s Preparatory Academy in Orchard Lake, Michigan.  

*Logan Boehm (’91) and Roc Gossett (’91) both received scholarships to attend school and play hockey for the Division 1 preparatory school Gilmore Academy, just outside of Cleveland in Gates Mills, Ohio.

*Matthew Gage (’90) will be playing for the Ojibwa Eagles Midget 18U AAA team in Houghton, Michigan for the upcoming 2007 -2008 season.

*Grant Gallo (’93) will be attending school and playing hockey at the Pursuit of Excellence Hockey Academy in Kelowna, British, Colombia 

*Nelson Hamwey  (‘90) and Trevor Vanhaute (91) will be playing for the Tier III Juinor A team, the San Diego Surf for the 2007 – 2008 season.

*Grant Thiem III (‘91) will be attending and playing for Ridley College Preparatory Academy in Ontario, Canada in the upcoming 2007-2008 school year. 

*Nick Whaley (’90) will be playing for the Tier III Junior A Capital Thunder for the upcoming 2007 – 2008 season. 

Future Prospects

*Weston Cydel (’91) attended the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers 2006 Prospects’ Camp.  Weston will be attending Medicine Hat’s main camp August 2007, and will also be attending the Langley Thunder of the Premier Tier I Junior A League in Canada the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL), Prospects Camp in September of 2007.