Boys 2008 and 2009 players who attended National Development Camp in Buffalo this past summer DO NOT need to register for the Boys District Camps and will automatically attend the Midget Festival in Taylor. Please expect to get an email ~3 weeks before the start of that camp (May 15-17) with registration instructions.

Registration links are below. Please click on the appropriate registration and complete the form. Please have your player's 2024-25 USA Hockey number and your credit/debit card available to complete the registration!

Tryouts are open to MHSAA Varsity players in their sophomore, junior and senior years. Freshmen Varsity players are not eligible, but Freshman on MHSAA Varsity rosters are eligible for the Boys District Camps. All participants must be USA Hockey registered. Registration for Team Michigan tryouts begins at 12:00 pm on Sunday, December 15th and closes at 11:59 pm on February 23rd.

Players will play 1-2hour game and will register for one of the following 3 locations:

Gaylord Monday March 10th

Grand Rapids Tuesday March 11th

Livonia Wednesday March 12th.

Cost: $65

The top players from each of these tryouts will be selected to play in the Team Michigan Festival in Chelsea, MI on March 15-16. The final teams to represent Michigan will be selected from this weekend. Cost is $140.

The registration for the Boys and Girls camps will open on November 16th at 8am. At that time, all girls, as well as boys who are rostered on a Tier I or MHSAA team will be eligible to register. On November 30th at 8am, the boys registration will open for all other players. Registration will close on January 12, 2025 at midnight. The cost of the boys district camps and the girls camp will be $170 this season.

Informational emails will go out this week to all players in Michigan over the next week. Please watch your email for further information.

For the Boys in Dearborn and Grand Rapids, the target is to limit the number of goalies in the District camps. If there are too many goalies registered, a goalie specific tryout may be held the weekend of March 20-22, most likely in Lansing. A separate registration cost will be applied, and those not selected to move to the District camp will have the District registration fee fully refunded.

Registration links will be posted on this web page when they become available. Please do not email if the link is not present if it is prior to the date of registration.

The registration system is set up to accept 48 forwards, 24 defensemen, and 8 goalies per age group for each location (Marquette is 24F, 12D, and 4G). Once those positions are filled, further registrations will be waitlisted. We initially start with 4 teams at each age group, and when there are enough waitlisted registrations at an age group, additional teams are formed from the waitlisted players in the order that they are registered. Those players taken from the waitlist will then be notified of their acceptance in the camp.

NOTE: These camps offer the opportunity for multiple stages of camp development. Players who choose to participate should be prepared to participate in ALL levels of the camp throughout the process. Please watch this site for dates as they become available to ensure that your player will be available for all potential dates.

Boys District Camps will be held at:

Dearborn April 10-13, 2025

Marquette April 18-19, 2025

Southside Arena Grand Rapids April 25-27, 2025

Girls Camp will be held April 25-27, 2025 at Patterson Ice Arena in Grand Rapids.

Most emails for Player Selection Camps come from a 'MAHA.org' domain. Please make certain this domain is safe in your email system to avoid missing emails concerning Player Selection Camps.

Once the District Camps are complete, the top players will be chosen to go to the final step in Michigan, where players from the 2008, 2009, and 2010 birth years will be chosen to attend National Development Camp in Buffalo this summer.

The 2008s and 2009s will attend Taylor May 16-18. There will be 4 teams at each age group. Players who went to National Camp last year already have spots in Taylor. The players chosen from the District Camps to attend Taylor will be posted on this site by the end of April.

The 2010s who are chosen will attend LSSU June 15-20, with the 2011s going June 22-27 (dates for both camps are TENTATIVE!). There are 6 teams at each age group. The players chosen to attend LSSU will be posted on this website during the first week of May.

During the course of registration for the Boys Development camps, positions at locations will fill and players will be directed to the wait list. This DOES NOT always mean that your child will not get to participate in camp. Our initial registration is set with a minimum number of teams with a balanced amount of players. We will fill those teams first. This allows our teams to have an equal amount of forwards, defense, and goalies. From there, all other players are directed to the waitlist. As we progress through the registration timeframe, we form additional teams as the numbers allow. Players are added to form these teams in the order that they are added to the waitlist (as each and every registration is time-stamped). Therefore, we encourage everyone who is directed to do so to register for the waitlist. In past years, approximately 90-95% of players who were placed on the waitlist made it into the main camp. Please continue to watch your email for updates on your registration--especially if you are waitlisted! Also note--players may only complete one registration, so if you are on a waitlist at one location, you will not be able to register for an open spot at an additional location. It is in your best interest to put your player on the waitlist in your desired location. Please reach our to the camp coordinators using the link at the bottom of the page with additional questions.

It’s a common question this time of year.

In short, it’s the way Michigan selects the players who represent the Great Lakes State at USA Hockey national camps.

Each year, the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association holds its Player Selection Camps. For boys, the Player Selection Camps take place first at the district level, and then at the state-wide level, to evaluate and identify the top players in the state, as selected by a panel of coaches at each location. Girls participate in a single-weekend camp in a similar selection process.

Players who are chosen by MAHA to represent Michigan at the USA Hockey Player Development Camps then compete alongside top players from across the country in their birth-year class. USA Hockey uses their national camps to identify the top players in the country, as well as complete rosters for upcoming international tournaments.

“With our Player Selection Camps, we aim to put forth the best players from Michigan to represent our state at the national level,” said Joe Jones, Player Selection Camp chair for MAHA. “We make the process as open and as accessible as possible, so that players from across the state, regardless of what team they played for in the fall, have an equal and fair opportunity.

“It also presents a unique opportunity for Michigan’s youth hockey players to know where they stand with their peers. Hockey is a sport where players develop at different times, so the Player Selection Camps can serve as a measuring stick, and let players identify their strengths and weaknesses as they continue to train and grow.”