2024 - 2025 LJAC U18AAA Information
U18 AAA Head Coach - Cody Leeming 519.996.9941 or u18aaacoach@ljac.ca
U18 AAA Director - Mike Leonhardt 780.203.9800 or u18aaa@ljac.ca
Players that are released from their first AAA tryout, have an opportunity to receive a second tryout from a different organization. The second tryout is to be arranged by the player who was released, and the form below must be completed once the second tryout has been agreed upon. https://www.hockeyalberta.ca/male-elite-waiver-form/. If you wish to attend the AA tryout process. Please contact the following AA draw zone contacts listed below.
Leduc Minor Hockey - Kevin Konelsky: u18aa@lmha.ca
Beaumont Minor Hockey- John Baker: jbaker@baha.ab.ca
Camrose Minor Hockey - Dave Sheets: dsheets@telusplanet.net
The first 3 tryout dates for U18AAA & U17AAA will commence on the following days: August 30, August 31 & September 1st. U18AAA times and rosters will be posted on www.ljac.ca and all social media platforms on or before August 27. Please note that U17 players will attend the U18 tryouts before attending the U17 tryouts. Players will be given tryout information for the U17 team if and or when a player release occurs. LJAC does not have a limitation on how many players we allow for tryouts. U18AAA/U17AAA tryouts are open to any and all players that reside in the Leduc Junior Athletic Club Elite Draw Zone. If you are away at Junior Camps please make sure to reach out to the U18AAA Head Coach Cody Leeming. Please be advised, that being away from U18AAA Tryouts to attend junior camps will not affect your tryout opportunity within LJAC.
To register for tryouts please click here
Please read the following important information very carefully
Leduc Junior Athletic Club is a draw zone-based organization. Player selections are completed by the coaching staffs and our teams are made up of 19 - 20 players from our draw zone in addition to players who might be coming in from other zones on second tryouts. Please be mindful LJAC is not mandated to have a certain number of players from any part of our draw zone. Development at this age is crucial and our organization will do everything in its power to see players get to the next level. In a perfect world you want to win championships and move everyone one to the next level, but sometimes it doesn’t happen in that order. Our coaching staff will put in a 100% effort to try and achieve this tall task! Please keep in mind that rosters for U18AAA are not required to be finalized until the start of the 6th league game and that there could be player movement up to and including that day. U17AAA rosters need to be finalized before the start of the first regular season game. We typically like to have all our teams finalized a week or two before the start of our first game on September 28th, but we want to be transparent with everyone as a lot of times we are at the mercy of WHL and AJHL player release that can sometime occur mid - late October which subsequently cause a trickle down effect.
If you were released from the tryout process and you are interested in another AAA tryout
- 17-year-olds (U18 age division): If you are a 17-year-old player released from your initial U18 AAA tryout, you are permitted to arrange one
- additional U18 AAA tryout.
- If another Elite Draw Zone/Team agrees to accept you for a second U18 AAA tryout, you must complete the Elite Male Waiver form and have both the releasing and receiving associations approve the tryout. The releasing association cannot refuse a second tryout.
- If you are released from the second U18 AAA tryout, you must proceed to U18 AA tryouts or tiered hockey.
- 16-year-olds (U18 age division): If you are a 16-year-old player released from your initial U18 AAA tryout, you are permitted to arrange one
- additional U18 AAA tryout.
- If another Elite Draw Zone/Team agrees to accept you for a second U18 AAA tryout, you must complete the Elite Male Waiver form and have both the releasing and receiving association sign approve the tryout. The releasing association cannot refuse a second tryout.
- If you are released from the second U18 AAA tryout, you must proceed to U17 AAA or U18 AA tryouts or tiered hockey.
- 16-year-olds (U17 age division): If you are a 16-year-old player and released from your initial U17 AAA tryout, you are permitted to arrange one (1) additional U17 AAA tryout.
- If another Elite Draw Zone/Team agrees to accept you for a second U17 AAA tryout, you must complete the Elite Male Waiver form and have both the releasing and receiving association approve the tryout. The releasing association cannot refuse a second tryout.
- If you are released from the second U17 AAA tryout, you must proceed to U18 AA tryouts or tiered hockey.
- 15-year-olds (U18 age division): If you are a 15-year-old player released from your initial U18 AAA tryout, you must proceed to U17 AAA in your resident Elite Draw Zone (or approved association if your Elite Player Movement application was approved).
- 15-year-olds (U17 age division): If you are a 15-year-old player released from your initial U17 AAA tryout, you are permitted to arrange one additional U17 AAA tryout.
- If another Elite Draw Zone/Team agrees to accept you for a second U17 AAA tryout, you must complete the Elite Male Waiver form and have both the releasing and receiving association approve the tryout. The releasing association cannot refuse a second tryout.
- If you are released from your second U17 AAA tryout, you must proceed to U18 AA or U16 AA tryouts or tiered hockey.
- If another Elite Draw Zone/Team agrees to accept you for a second tryout, you must complete the Elite Male Waiver form and have both the releasing and receiving association approve the tryout. The releasing association cannot refuse a second tryout
