Northstars Getting Down to Business
You may not know that while the Newcastle Northstars compete at the highest level of ice hockey in Australia, all the players still work daily outside of the sport. Several players within the Northstars run their own businesses, and we’d love to share their details with you to support them.
#14 Matt Price - Dangar Body Works
“We are a local smash repair business that works for all major insurance companies in the area. We range from doing restoration work, rust repairs and insurance claims.”
“The flexibility and freedom of working for myself is great, and I am motivated and driven to help our clients when things are hard for them.”
#5 John F. Kennedy - NSA Hockey
“This year is our 10th anniversary of starting Northstars Academy. Over that time, it has become the National Sport Academy, and I am passionate about helping players grow and develop as ice hockey players and strong leaders within their communities all around the country.”
“We run a lot of camps and clinics and personal sessions in the mornings, and we work with all the clubs throughout the season. This July, we had one of our bigger camps in Newcastle, with a four-day Hockey Days camp, and we also had one being held in Perth, so we have grown to be coast to coast now.”
#3 Mat Lindsay & Assistant GM Dave Ferrari – Hockey MD
“We are really passionate about growing hockey in the country, and we see many fans that come to games join our Learn to Play program and become hockey players, and we just can’t get enough of it,” says Dave.
“Players can progress from our skate sessions and Learn to Play into our Newcastle Ice Hockey League (NIHL), where they can develop further, play for our representative club, and go further to represent the state or the world.”
“Dave and I wanted to focus on our local community with Hockey MD and build our development programs from the juniors up. The growth within our local leagues is phenomenal, and it comes from knowing what we loved about playing hockey locally, and recreationally we have used that experience to give the players coming into the sport the best possible experience in learning the sport and hopefully stay in hockey for life,” adds Matt.
For more information, visit the business’s Facebook and Instagram pages.
