Changes to U14AA Evaluations for 2025-26

Exciting Changes Coming to U14AA Evaluations for 2025-2026!

The Ringette Associations across the Capital Region are excited to introduce a new and improved process for selecting players for U14AA teams next season.

What’s Changing?

For the 2025-2026 season, Associations are working together to make the evaluation process more consistent and fair across the board. This means:

• All players will have the same opportunity to be evaluated, no matter which association they belong to.
• Players will be placed at the tier that best matches their skill level.
• Everyone will try out through one streamlined AA evaluation process and be seen by all participating Associations.

How Will It Work?

• Players register for AA Evaluations with their home Association.  Non-host Association players register with their primary choice host AA Association.
• During registration, players can also indicate other AA teams, if any, they’d be open to playing for.
• Each host AA Association will run 2-3 evaluation skates and UAA testing between August 21-27.
• From there, approximately 20 AA-ready players per host Association will be invited to Centralized Evaluations from August 28-30.

Here’s how the Centralized Evaluations will run:

• Athletes chosen to move forward with the Centralized Evaluation will participate in 3 additional skates.
• After Skate 1, Coaches can “protect” players from their own host evaluations that they have selected for their team.
• Skates 2 and 3, Coaches will receive a list of available players who have indicated a willingness to play for their Association, who were not ‘protected’ by their Host Association.

 

• Only coaches and the AA Evaluation Oversight Committee will know who is protected/unprotected—this info won't be shared with families.

 

• Coaches will build their final rosters based on the available unprotected player pool (Host Association athletes or those who indicated a willingness to play).

Want to Learn More?

• Take a look at the U14AA Evaluation Procedures developed by the North AA Evaluations Committee.
• Join us at our Town Hall on Thursday, June 5 at 7pm, held at Red Willow Church (15 Corriveau Dr, St. Albert).  Please register here and include any questions you’d like us to answer.
  
  

We’re looking forward to this exciting new chapter for AA Ringette in our region.

Thank you,
The North AA Evaluations Committee