The newly revamped Inline Hockey development program ‘Mighty Pucks’ was relaunched at the 2012 Inline Hockey National Championships in Adelaide last week.

Highlighted through a feature game called ‘Future Stars’, 2 teams of juniors under the age of 10 showed off their newly acquired hockey skills in front of a crowd of more than 1000 people at the Adelaide Arena.

Originally created by Inline Hockey Australia Chairman Gordon Young in 2007, ‘Mighty Pucks’ was designed to teach children how to play inline hockey in a structured but fun way, to continue to grow and develop the sport.

Skate Australia’s Pathway Participation Manager Aaron Sprigg believes the program highlights the future potential of the sport to continue to grow in Australia.

“‘Mighty Pucks’ has the ability to transition heaps of new young players into the sport, reaping the benefits of this strong development program and positioning them well to be great players in the future,”

"continuing to enjoy the sport and have fun along the way," he said.

The new program includes improved booklets and resources as well as certificates for each achievement level.

‘Mighty Pucks’ is now available to all affiliated clubs.

Skate Australia would like to thank ILHA, Corey Smith and the ILHSA Executive Committee for helping to make ‘Future Stars’ and the relaunch of ‘Mighty Pucks’ happen.

For more information or to register your club as a Mighty Pucks deliverer, please contact Aaron Sprigg at asprigg@skateaustralia.org.au

The 2012 ILHA National Championships have ended with Skate Australia Victoria Inline (SAVI) taking out the overall trophy.

SAVI and Queensland were tied in the overall count with 19 points each, with the deciders left to Gold Medal wins. SAVI claimed four and Queensland won three.

For full divisional standings and stats please click here for the Inline Hockey page.

Congratulations to all involved in a successful Championships!

Inline Hockey Nationals have been a great success this year with 47 teams battling it out against one another for their state.

Tune in on Thursday 4th October to the Skate Australia website to watch the finals being streamed straight to your living room!

To see the schedule of the finals click here.

To view the stream, scroll below 'Latest News Articles' on the home page!

MITCH Henderson, 18, returned home recently after spending three weeks in Colombia, South America, representing Australia in the junior and senior men's teams for inline hockey.

The world championships was held at Bucaramanga with extensive security presence to ensure all the safety of all participants.

A training camp was held for three days in Los Angeles including a visit to Disneyland before the team flew to to Colombia via Mexico.

Henderson captained the junior men's team who played in pool A against the top four ranked countries in the world.

Although fielding only eight court players and two goalies instead of 12 and two, the team played consistently to be ranked eighth at the end of the tournament.

Henderson was the highest point scorer for his team.

Six thousand people attended the grand final game between Czech Republic and Colombia with the Czech Republic awarded the world champion's title.

The senior teams then arrived with some countries fielding ice hockey professional players.

Henderson joined the Australian senior men's Team, which competed with eight court players and one goalie, who was injured early in the tournament. This resulted in some periods of the games played with an open net.

Playing the Czech Republic, Canada, France, Germany, Argentina and Equador in the minor rounds the team managed to get on the score board against the world's elite.

To read the full article at the Port Lincoln Times, click here.