The Barrie Women’s Hockey Association is proud to announce that we have once again been selected to offer the NHL/NHLPA FIRST SHIFT program.
Once again the BWHA will be hosting TWO First Shift Sessions!
Our Fall 2025 Session is now complete.
Registration is now open for Spring 2026!
SPRING SESSION:
Kick-off event and equipment fitting - March 19th 2026
- 6 weekly session from March to April 2026
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Thursday March 26 - 5:30pm - East Bayfield CC
Thursday April 2 - 5/6pm start
Thursday April 9 - 5/6pm start
Thursday April 16 - 5/6pm start
Wednesday April 22
Wednesday April 29
ABOUT FIRST SHIFT
The First Shift program is open to children ages 6-10*, who have never previously enrolled in minor hockey within Canada or the NHL/NHLPA First Shift program. The program focuses on the fundamentals of hockey, and showing new players how fun it is!
*To be eligible to participate, children must be born between January 1, 2015 and May 1, 2020.
The cost to participate is $299.00 which includes the 6 week on ice program, player insurance, as well as
head-to-toe hockey Bauer equipment - including helmet, shoulder pads, elbow pads, gloves, pants, shin guards and skates! The equipment is provided at the welcome event and a week or two later players will attend weekly on ice session for a period of 6 weeks.
Registration is open now! Space is limited to 30 players per session so register early.
To register or for more information about this program please go to:
https://www.firstshift.ca/the-program/
If you have any questions regarding this program, please reach out to
[email protected].