The ADM Model

CSB’s programs are designed to focus on the long term development of our players, improving skills, increasing participation levels, and creating a positive environment for youth hockey players.
 
In partnership with the American Development Model (ADM), CSB  strives to teach our children life lessons through the sport of hockey that will help them develop into healthy, happy and succesful adults.
 
Sportsmanship and Fun are stressed in all of our programs, at all levels.
 
We teach our players to "Give Their Best", "Do What's Right" and to "Treat Others As We Want To Be Treated".
 

WHAT IS USA HOCKEY’S AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT MODEL?
The ADM is USA Hockey’s nationwide player-development program for youth hockey associations. It’s based on age-appropriate, age-specific competition and training for boys and girls, beginning with their  first steps onto the ice and carrying them through age 18 and beyond. The ADM places a heightened emphasis on skill development and long-term athlete development principles, providing a blueprint for the best possible youth hockey experience. Put simply, it’s doing what’s best for kids.


HOW DOES THE ADM HELP PLAYERS REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL?
First and foremost, by enhancing athleticism and emphasizing skill development.  Through science and experience, we’ve learned that the world’s elite athletes were almost never early-age specialists. They enjoyed a variety of sports and activities. They climbed. They swam. They biked. In short, they were kids. The ADM lets kids be kids. It encourages them to have fun and it amplifies their all-around athleticism through programming developed by hockey experts, sport scientists and child development specialists. This programming lifts the lid off kids’ athletic potential, blending with science to create a full toolbox of athleticism. When they apply it to hockey, good things happen. When we complement it with age-appropriate, age-specific skill training, good becomes great.


ADM IN ACTION.
At the younger age levels, it looks like fun and constant motion in small spaces. The ADM encourages station-based practices, small-area games and cross-ice competition to deliver more repetitions, more puck touches and more skill development per hour of ice time. It provides the most efficient, most engaging development path for children, keeping them both in the game and on a path toward their full potential.  This emphasis helps children benefit from more skill development and less burnout. As children progress in age, the ADM progresses with them, providing age-specific programming designed to prepare, propel and polish.

For more information about ADM, please visit the ADM website.