The Albany Academies To Host 42nd Annual Rider Cup Hockey Tournament

Oldest scholastic hockey invitational in region to take place on December 8 & 9

ALBANY, NY (11/30/2007)(readMedia)-- (Albany) – The Albany Academies will host the 42nd Annual Rider Cup Holiday Ice Hockey Tournament on Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9.

The Albany Academies Varsity Hockey Team – The Cadets – will compete with teams from The Hill School in Pottstown, PA; The Winchendon School in Winchendon, MA; The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ; Millbrook School in Millbrook, NY; and Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, PA.

Six games will take place on Saturday, December 8 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., with consolation and championship games being held on Sunday, December 9 at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m.

The tournament is open to the public and there is no admission fee; all games will be played at Robison Family Hockey Arena in The Albany Academies Field House.

The Albany Academies renamed the annual holiday tournament the Rider Cup in 2003 to honor Coach Dave Rider, a former Athletic Director who stepped down as Head Coach in 2002 after a 24-year career behind the bench. During his tenure, the Cadets won more than 400 games, including three New York State Championships and a New England Prep School Championship. Coach Rider is joined on the bench by Assistant Coach Steve Sprague, a 1992 graduate of The Albany Academy.

The Albany Academies is the only high school in the Capital Region that plays in the New England Prep School League – one of the top scholastic hockey leagues in the nation. The tournament features two other schools that play in the prep league and three that play an independent schedule.

The tournament is sponsored by O’Connor, O’Connor, Bresee & First, P.C. of Albany and Stewart’s Shops.

For more information, visit www.albanyacademies.org or www.aahockey.org.

The Albany Academies is home to the two campuses of The Albany Academy (West Campus) and Albany Academy for Girls (East Campus), which share a nearly 200-year-old tradition of quality, single-gender independent school education. Both campuses bring with them deeply treasured values of community, tradition, and purpose to the newly formed school known as The Albany Academies.

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