8TH ANNUAL (2026) POST OHSAA DISTRICT (POD) High School Hockey Tournament Feb 27-March 1: Information:

• The POD Tournament goals are to: (1) have as many 1-2 goal games as possible during the tournament, and (2): give your seniors a fun way to end their High School careers.
• As of 1/16/26 the tournament is full.
• NOTE: OHSAA Teams, the 4 POD games will count toward your 35 game limit. Plan accordingly.
• 8 team tourney (2 PODs of 4 teams each, with crossover championship Sunday)
• 1 game Friday, 2 games Saturday, 1 game Sunday: FEE: $1650 due at signup
• Email for more information or to reserve a spot for 2027: [email protected]

8th ANNUAL POST OHSAA DISTRICT (POD) HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY TOURNAMENT (THE “POD”)
Host Teams: Archbishop Alter and Beavercreek High Schools
Friday, Feb 27-  Sunday, March 1, 2026:  All games at:

NTPRD Chiller
301 W Main St, Springfield, OH 45504

• 2026 TEAMS– Archbishop Alter High School, Beavercreek High School, Springboro High School, Troy High School (Troy, OH)- Tentative Teams to date: Lake (Toledo), Normandy High School (Cleveland), Brebeuf Jesuit HS (Indianapolis, IN), Westlake high School (Columbus)

The seventh annual Academy Hockey Club Post Ohio Districts (POD) Tournament is scheduled for 2/21/25 – 2/23/25 at the NTPRD Chiller in Springfield, OH.  The teams currently slated for the POD are: Alter, Beavercreek, Clay, Lake, Worthington-Kilbourne, Westlake, and Springboro.  More information to follow!

Participating teams: CLICK HERE FOR TEAM REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT

NUGS 2024-25

Congratulations to the Worthington Kilbourne Wolves for winning the 5th annual Post Ohio District (POD) Tournament!  Congratulations also to the Beavercreek Beavers for finishing 2nd and the Clay Eagles for capturing the third place trophy.

Special thanks to the NTPRD Chiller staff, the officials, the trainers, and to all of you that volunteered your time this weekend to ensure that this tournament was a success!  Thank you to all of the teams for playing in the tournament this year and we hope to see you all back in 2024!

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF THE POD TOURNAMENT RESULTS

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2022 pod cHAMPION-

ALTER KNIGHTS !

2022 POD TOURNAMENT FINAL GAMES- SUNDAY FEB. 27:  NTPRD CHILLER

Consolation Game: 8:50am  Troy (Home) vs Westlake (Visitors) 5-0
Consolation Game: 10:30am  Worthington-Kilbourne (Home) vs Whitmer (Visitors) 4-1
3rd Place Game: 12:10pm  Springboro (Home) vs Lake (Visitors) 3-6
Championship Game: 2:20pm  Alter (Home) vs Beavercreek (Visitors) 3-1

Academy Hockey Club is a non-profit organization focused on increasing participation in ice-sports in the greater Dayton/Cincinnati area. Our goal is to provide FREE learn to skate/play opportunities for area youth — because we strongly believe sports creates better citizens.

OUR VISION IS TO:

• Provide High School Players more opportunities to Play
  • Created an Academy High School Fall League with more than 50 players per year
  • Added a Post Ohio Districts (POD) Tournament as a competitive and fun way to end a season
  • Installed the 40×60′ Academy Outdoor Pond, the area’s first synthetic Ice Training Facility
  • Started the Southwest Ohio High School Hockey League (SWOHSHL) All Star Game since Dayton/Cincy players rarely were invited to OHSAA All Star Games
• Increase ice sports participation in the Dayton/Cincinnati Area by providing a free-to-use outdoor synthetic ice-skating facility
  • This eliminates Cost as a barrier of Entry for youth players/skaters
  • Develop & utilize certified coaches for FREE lessons
• Always give our youth free access to ice sports, like Warroad, Minnesota’s model. See their video here!
  • “In Warroad, the mindset is to make sure they always have access to it.”

 

CONGRATULATIONS to Lake! Champs of the 2021 POD Tournament!
2nd Place- PHA Prowlers, 3rd Place-Alter Knights

3rd Place Alter Knights

 

 

 

3rd ANNUAL POST OHSAA DISTRICT (POD) HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
THE “POD”
Feb 26,27,28-2021: All games at South Metro Sports
10561 Success Lane, Dayton, Ohio 45458

Friday Feb. 26, 2021

6:00pm- 3-Beavercreek v 3-Worthington Kilbourne
7:40pm- 7-PHA Prowlers v 5-Alter
9:20pm- 0-Kent v 6-Lake

Saturday Feb 27, 2021
7:00am- 2-PHA Prowlers v 2-Beavercreek
8:40am- 7-Lake v 2-Alter
10:20pm- 3-Kent v 1-Worthington Kilbourne

5:30pm- 1-Lake v 2-PHA Prowlers
7:10pm- 3-Beavercreek v 5-Kent
8:50pm- 4-Alter v 1-Worthington Kilbourne

Sunday Feb 28, 2021
5th v 6th- 12:30pm  8-Beavercreek v 3-Wortington Kilbourne
4th v 3rd-   2:05pm  3-Kent v 7-Alter
1st v 2nd-  3:40pm  4-Lake v 0-PHA: Championship

– Request information for next year’s POD or email with any questions to: [email protected]

2022 POD High School Hockey Tournament Information:

**Please plan ahead when scheduling for your season, as OHSAA teams must have 31 or fewer games scheduled (not counting OHSAA post-season district games nor pre-season games) to be eligible for THE POD, since the OHSAA season limit is 35 games total.

– 2022 Dates TBA- Most likely after the weekend after the first two OHSAA state tournament rounds
– Currently up to 6 Teams and expanding in 2022
– 4 Game guarantee
– For lower half of OHSAA and Club teams based on myhockeyrankings.com
– Tourney Fee: Estimated to be $1500 per team
– Applications Due no later than December 15, 2021 with a $500 deposit
(make checks payable to “Academy Hockey Club” a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization) and mail to:

Academy Hockey Club
435 Danbury Place
Xenia, OH 45385

– Accepted teams/applications will be notified via email

Email with any questions to: [email protected]

 

CONGRATULATIONS to Lake! Champs of the 2021 POD Tournament!
2nd Place- PHA Prowlers, 3rd Place-Alter Knights

3nd ANNUAL POST OHSAA DISTRICT (POD) HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
THE “POD”
Feb 26-28, 2021 at South Metro Sports-  10561 Success Ln, Dayton, OH 45458

(The POD is subject to all pandemic related rules and guidelines of the CDC, State of Ohio, OHSAA, and local and facility regulations, rules, and guidelines and may be cancelled at any time, with deposits and fees fully refunded.)

2021 POD Rules

The Academy Hockey Club is proud to announce an exciting new tournament for Ohio High School Athletic Association and Ohio Club participating ice hockey programs…THE POD TOURNAMENT!

THE POD (Post OHSAA District) is intended to provide a post OHSAA District tournament option for teams ranking in the lower half of the state according to myhockeyrankings.com (which basically constitutes Division 2 in other OHSAA sports).  “We just can’t stand to see a high school senior end their career on the wrong side of a lopsided state tournament game” says Matt Belmonte, Academy Hockey Club Board member,  “so we created the POD as an option for the teams to have a better end-of-season experience, and for senior players, a better end of career experience.”

Games will be played at February 26-28, 2021 at South Metro Sports- 10561 Success Ln, Dayton, OH 45458.  Other OHSAA teams have expressed interest in participating and the POD plans to grow in coming years. “You just have to make sure not to exceed the season 35-game limit set by OHSAA administrators,” says Greg Gutterman, the Academy Hockey Club’s President.

2021 Fee- $1450 with a four game guarantee

– Apply with an email to: Bill Daniels- [email protected] or Greg Gutterman- [email protected]

– $500 deposit due ASAP to confirm your spot.  Make checks payable to “Academy Hockey Club” and mail to:

Academy Hockey Club
435 Danbury Place
Xenia, OH 45385

(Academy Hockey Club is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization)

Congrats to team green! 2020 AHC champs!

and best wishes to all ahc players in their upcoming high school seasons!

 

PLAYOFF SCHEDULE for Sunday Oct. 25

3rd Place Game- Red wins 7-3
11:00am-  Black (3 seed) vs. RED (4 seed)

Championship Game- GREEN wins 4-1
12:00Noon- White (1 seed) vs. Green (2 seed)
(Green won the tiebreaker with Black for 2nd place based on Game Wins)

2020 AHC Standings:

TEAM	Period Win	Game Win	SO Win	POINTS
Blue	7.5	3.5	4.0	15.0
Red	8.5	4.0	5.0	17.5
Green	10.5	6.0	4.5	21.0
White	14.0	6.5	5.0	25.5
Black	9.5	5.0	6.5	21.0

Players- as of wednesday 9/16/20 There have been roster changes made !!!
Please find your new team and new team color, and the updated & changed schedule below:

S. Metro Sat 9/19/2020 11:00am Red Green
S. Metro Sat 9/19/2020 Noon Blue Black
S. Metro Sun 9/20/2020 11:00am Green Black
S. Metro Sun 9/20/2020 Noon Red White

S. Metro Sat 9/26/2020 11:00am Blue Red
S. Metro Sat 9/26/2020 Noon Black Green
S. Metro Sun 9/27/2020 11:00am Green Red
S. Metro Sun 9/27/2020 Noon White Black

S. Metro Sat 10/3/2020 11:00am White Green
S. Metro Sat 10/3/2020 Noon Black Blue
S. Metro Sun 10/4/2020 11:00am Blue Green
S. Metro Sun 10/4/2020 Noon White Red

S. Metro Sat 10/10/2020 11:00am Red Blue
S. Metro Sat 10/10/2020 Noon Green White
S. Metro Sun 10/11/2020 11:00am Red Black
S. Metro Sun 10/11/2020 Noon Blue White

S. Metro Sat 10/17/2020 11:00am Black White
S. Metro Sat 10/17/2020 Noon Green Blue
S. Metro Sun 10/18/2020 11:00am White Blue
S. Metro Sun 10/18/2020 Noon Black Red

S. Metro Sat 10/24/2020 Noon  Red Green
S. Metro Sun 10/25/2020 11:00am Third Place Game
S. Metro Sun 10/25/2020 Noon Championship

TEAM #1  BLUE
William Augustine
Lauren Miller
Riley Hanson
John Lenhardt
Gabriel Neidhard
Braden Preston
Joe Martin
Zachary Burger
Adam Rider
Tristan Schroeder
Henry Ropp
Robert Peterson-G

TEAM #2  WHITE (FORMER RED)
Spencer Morgan
Liam DeGroft
Matthew Schwanekamp
Liam Reilly
Joseph Donahue
Stephen Adams
Michael Brands
Samuel Linden
Joseph Bordas
Zachariah Zynda
Tristan Kouse-G
Benjamin Duford-G

TEAM #3  BLACK (FORMER GOLD)
Alexander Elsner
Peter Crowley
Nicholas Kohlman
Garrett Hurr
Patrick Crowley
Michael Hyland
Peter Devoe
Brady Baxter
Josiah Lehman
Camden Garris
Grant Russell-G
Simon Kelley-G

TEAM #4  GREEN (FORMER WHITE)
Jason Morgan
Thomas Bush
Brian Driscoll
Ethan Webb
Alexander DeRosa
Carter Ca Heekin
Dylan Hayes
Makayla Smith
Owen Natorp
John Schaltz
Gage Bader-G
Christopher Heekin

TEAM #5  RED (FORMER GREEN)
Braden B Cox
Carson C Cox
Jordan Babb
Joseph Piehowicz
Adam Schulz
Owen Huff
Nicholas Das
Gabe Vogelgesang
Neil Weisgerber
Cole Popen
Ian Champagne-G
Max Hauboldt-G

NUGS UPDATE- Sept 10, 2020
The first two NUGS games of the 2020 pre-season are Saturday Sept. 12 at South Metro Sports at 1pm and 4pm. Their next games are Saturday Sept. 19 at South Metro Sports also at 1pm and 4pm, with another game Sunday Sept. 20 at South Metro Sports at 1pm.