Glacier Hockey Association is a non-profit community youth hockey organization that provides an instructional hockey experience for youth ages 4-18 in a safe and supportive environment. Glacier Hockey Association strives to promote an enriching environment in a community setting while providing foundational skills, in accordance with USA Hockey’s American Development Model program to foster youth development and encouraging a lifelong love of hockey and team sports. GHA endeavors to impart the hockey values of character, hard work, teamwork, sportsmanship, and respect that lead to player success both on and off the ice.

We desire to grow the sport of hockey in the Flathead Valley by being a top tier developmental hockey program in Montana. This goal is grounded in providing the best possible experience for our athletes. We strive to provide a challenging, fun and rewarding experience on and off the ice. We aspire to provide the entire hockey family (athletes, coaches, managers, families, and stakeholders of GHA) a first class experience. To this end, we are committed to excellence across our in season programs, out of season development programs, coaching development, character development, facilities, and fundraising.

We have a set of core values that align directly with our Mission. These are driving principles that direct our organization. They, combined with our Mission Statement, are our True North and will carry us to our vision.

• Our #1 priority is to create a incredible experience for our athletes:
• We want to ignite, stoke and fan a love for the sport of hockey. This ultimately creates a life long appreciation of the sport.
• Our decisions are motivated by what is in the best interest of our athletes.
• We believe Hockey can deliver skills for life off the ice:
• As is the case with all sports, hockey can deliver skills that will serve our athletes for the rest of their life. We acknowledge so many of those skills/lessons come organically through the course of a hockey season. But we intentionally impart these principles to our athletes and teams:
• Team Comes First
• Attitude
• Effort
• Play with Discipline
• We are a development organization
• We provide the best opportunities in season and out of season for our athletes and coaches to develop. This includes practices, dryland, camps and other opportunities to help our athletes and coaches reach their potential. We meet our athletes where they are at currently and place an emphasis on helping them reach their potential.
• While we desire success on the ice, the priority is our athletes and teams reaching their potential. This might mean sacrificing on ice success early on in development.
• We are an organization for all
• Our programming is for all who want to develop as hockey players, regardless of ability, gender and financial resources.
• Whether an athlete is just starting their hockey journey (Learn to Play/House League) or desiring to excel at the highest levels of the sport (Travel and Select Teams), we have a place and programming for them on their hockey journey.
• We do not discriminate based upon gender. We have both coed programming and girls only programming
• We believe that all who desire to play the sport should have the opportunity to play regardless of financial resources. We have resources and scholarships to help those families that need assistance to participate in the organization.