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The Koeppel Community Sports Center is open to the community an average of 30 hours per week for both public skating and programs geared toward families and school-children in the community. More than 1,000 Hartford children come through the doors of the Koeppel Center each week to participate in organized programs, with hundreds more coming for open skate time. Learn more about the programs below to see how you can get involved!

Public Skating

There are public skating hours 7 days a week, even some holidays! In fact, more than 100 members of the community came to skate on New Year’s Eve! The number of public skating hours will increase further when the facility is open for a full season.
A sign is placed in front of the Koeppel Center daily noting the public skating hours.
Each month public skating hours are posted on the web site and on flyers at the reception desk.

Learn to Skate for the General Public

Learn to Skate (LTS) programs take place on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday for a total of 6 hours per week. There is a minimal fee of $130 to cover ice time, instruction and skate rental. An anonymous Trinity College donor will provide 30 scholarships for Hartford children for each of the three LTS sessions in the 2007-2008 season, a total of 90 scholarships in the year.

Hartford Public Schools Learn to Skate Program

Currently supported by Trinity grant funds, as part of their physical education curriculum more than 600 Hartford elementary school children from Batchelder, Sanchez, Parkville, Moylan, McDonough and Hartford Magnet Middle School skate daily, averaging 18 hours per week, alongside Trinity men’s and women’s hockey players and members of the Trinity figure skating club.

Boys and Girls Club Learn to Skate Program

Currently supported by Trinity grant funds, an average of 60 students from Boys and Girls Clubs throughout the entire city participate in Learn to Skate programs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for 3 hours per week. Students skate during prime after-school hours, a time when the need is high for productive and safe after-school activities.

Sport and Medical Sciences Academy Collaborative Hockey Program

Currently supported by Trinity grant funds, eight Students from the Sports and Medical Sciences Academy come to the Koeppel Center an average of 3 hours per week to practice with the goal of creating a cooperative hockey program for middle and high-school students in the Hartford school system.

Parkville Program

Parkville teacher Pat Mairson rewards his star students by making them members of a roller-blading club. Currently supported by Trinity grant funds, forty students have traded in their wheels for skates and spend 2 hours per week at the Koeppel Center.

Trinity College Intramural and Physical Education Opportunities

2007-2008 will mark the first year the Koeppel Center will be open for a full season with lots of additional opportunities throughout the year. Plans are underway for intramural and course-based options. Already Hartford area alumni have formed a two-team intramural league that plays every Friday.

For more information about these and other programs at the Koeppel Community Sports Center please contact Rich Pettit at 297-4040 or richard.pettit@trincoll.edu