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Lou's Daughter Kathy played on the original capitals pewee team and then went on to play at Princeton University

Shelly Looney (Northeastern) played on the first Capitals Pee Wee team along
with Katherine (Princeton), Kathleen Brophy (Providence) and Andrea Spruell
(Brown). Jerry Spruell put the team together and was the coach. Karen
Lundgren's daughters played. Other players on this team also went on to
college varsity but I am not sure of who/where. Bree Cheatham to
Northeastern is one. Lundgren and Spruell will have a ton of history.

The next year a Midget team was formed. Katherine moved up at age 14. Kim
Flatt (Northeastern) was the goaltender. Ellie Griffith (Princeton) from
Lansing joined the team. Rich Lacca (boy's AAA) was coach. Bill Alcott
sponsored both teams, big time. This was the first year for the Golden
Blades, started by Barbara (I said she was nuts - wrong again!)The
tournament was a success from day one. In November 1987 Rich Lacca rated
this team at the level of boy's Squirt A, maybe. How he stuck with it and
made the same Bad News Bears gang a national power is beyond me. He only
had two lines and Kim, ever. What a coach!

Bill Alcott's daughter, Nancy, dropped hockey after the first Midget year
but Bill stuck with his sponsorship through 1992-93. He wanted to see his
girls wearing college jerseys.

In 1989 the founder of the Ohio Flames, Lee Helfer, came to the Golden
Blades looking for advice on starting his program in Akron, which he then
did. By then the Capitals had a national reputation as a model program and
inspired Team Illinois and a Wisconsin travel team to start.

In 1991 the Capitals Midgets knocked the hated Assabet MA team out of the
Nationals in the semi-final in OT, at the Assabet rink. In the
championship
game they lost to the Polar Bears I think 2:1 or 3:1. All the Polar Bears
goals were scored by two National Team 19 year old college players. The
rules were changed the following year.

I think every player on that first Midget team will say the greatest game
of their life was beating the Scarborough Firefighters U19 in triple OT at
the 89 or 90 GB. They had beaten them at the Scarborough Christmas Tournament
and up to that point Scarborough had not lost a tournament in two years.
The next year they moved up to Senior A. Some of their players made the
Canadian Olympic Team, Karen Nystrom for one.

Artie Norian (Ice Box) has been a big Capitals supporter from day one. She
is part of the team

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