PAT KELLEHER

USA HOCKEY’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHATS ABOUT THE RECORD-LEVEL ENROLLMENT FIGURES, THE JOY HE GETS SEEING THE GROWTH OF THE WOMEN’S GAME AND THE IMPORTANCE OF OFFERING A DIVERSE ARRAY OF PROGRAMS

WITH W. GRAEME ROUSTAN

W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: The one thing that jumped out at me when I was doing research for our get-together here was the growth, the numbers. They’re just, across the board, solid. Everything from boys, girls, referees – you name it. It’s above pre-pandemic numbers. Walk me through what’s happened in the last year. PAT KELLEHER: Our job No. 1 at USA Hockey is to grow the game. All day, every day. That’s the No. 1 priority, right? We have a lot of other things that go beyond that too, but how do we introduce families to the game? We recently had a Try Hockey For Free weekend. Over 8,000 kids introduced to the game. From an organizational perspective, we focus on how to bring people into the game, and that permeates from…

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