Oilers Help Rampage Housing Efforts
The Tulsa Oilers are ramping up their efforts to assist our partners, the Tulsa Rampage, this season. We’re beginning by helping them find host families for their incoming players. It is an exciting opportunity for your family to help a young man achieve his dreams and to be an integral part of Oklahoma’s only Junior hockey team.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be providing some detail about players that have signed with the Rampage to give you an opportunity to get to know their players before they arrive in mid-August. You may even find a player you’d specifically like to house!
This week we focus on two foreign players, two from the state of Wisconsin and one from Virginia.
* The first foreign player comes from Sweden. He’s an outgoing young man who hopes to live with a family that will help him get to know the area and what it’s like to live in the U.S. He has an older sister and loves the idea of having host brothers or sisters. His favorite hobby is hockey, including watching all the NHL games but he also likes to get out a lot. He’s had a brief visit to the U.S. in the past but is looking forward to living here throughout the season.
* The second foreign player hails from a suburb of London England and played for the Rampage most of last season. He’s only 17 but has already graduated from high school. He’s got an outgoing personality and loved being a part of the Rampage’s community service projects last season.
* Both of the players from Wisconsin are 19 years old and both have younger brothers. The first is an outdoorsman who loves to go camping, fishing, golfing, and throwing frisbees. He’s a big baseball fan who loves to go to baseball games. He hopes to live in a family with younger kids and dogs and cats. He say’s he’s the rare kind of kid who likes to keep his room clean!
* The second Wisconsin player also loves to be outdoors including fishing and going to the lake to swim or jet ski. He likes biking and riding motorcycles as well. When indoors, he likes video games, reading, watching TV and hopefully hanging out with a family that has kids. In the spirit of a good Wisconsin native, he made a point to mention that he loves Cheese!
* The 17 year old Virginia native has already graduated from high school and will be looking for a job to help supplement his expenses while he’s here. He loves all sports, loves to go golfing, play putt putt, and go bowling. He will not have a car while in Tulsa so he’ll need to be housed with another player that will be bringing a car. He wants to share his love for hockey by mentoring a younger hockey player.
The Rampage have been huge supporters of the TYHA and we hope to return that support to them. Please take the time to contact housing director Robyn Willey at robyn@tulsarampage.com or by phone at (918) 237-1156 to get further information about housing a player for the upcoming season.
