The Bauer Selects are THE Elite Training Program for advanced hockey players looking to excel in a professional training environment. No other program has helped more players earn Division I college scholarships or can boast of more players accepted to the National Team Development Program and USAH’s National Teams in the last few years than the Bauer Selects.
Since its founding in 2005, more than fifty (50) Bauer Selects players have received NCAA hockey scholarships. More than twenty (20) Bauer Selects players have been selected to USA Hockey’s NTDP in Ann Arbor. And out of only three birth years of Bauer Selects players eligible for the NHL Player Drafts (Bantam & Midgets), a total of sixteen (16) of our players have been NHL-drafted, including three (3) First-Rounders and four (4) Second-Rounders.
How are players selected?
If you wonder why you have never heard about “tryouts” for the Bauer Selects, the reason is simple: we do not conduct tryouts. Such tryouts generally serve as mere “fundraisers” anyway. Rather, we at the Bauer Selects select our athletes based on three criteria: 1) the recommendations of coaches, athletes and hockey professionals who comprise a sort of referral-network; 2) the homework our own National Staff conducts; and 3) our scouting and vetting of prospects who have submitted to us their Player Profiles. We look at many elite hockey players, of course, but we choose to invite only those whom we believe will represent their teams, clubs, and countries with the class, integrity and character of a true athlete.
Player recommendations are therefore based not only on hockey ability, but also on depth of character, leadership ability, and scholastic efforts. In the simplest of terms, if you are recommended to us, it is because someone somewhere has seen your son and recognized him as an outstanding athlete and as a good person.
What are our Goals and Objectives?
What the Bauer Selects does is provide these elite players with an opportunity to achieve their own goals and objectives:
We:
