2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
2025 OGHA Annual General Meeting
Date:
Thursday June 26th, 2025
Location:
Virtual - Teams Link
Time:
7:00 pm
Agenda:
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Call to Order
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Approval of Agenda
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Approval of Minutes of Past AGM found here
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Welcome, introductions
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2024-25 Season run down and highlights.
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Review of the Financials found here
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BOD Elections
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Call out each name of those who expressed interest in advance as a nomination.
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Ask for a second to that nomination.
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Ask if the person accepts the nomination.
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Upon acceptance, request that each person say a few words about why they are running and what they bring to the association.
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Voting
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Results of the Election
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Meeting Adjournment
Current List of Candidates and Positions:
As of June 20, 2025, the current list of board members are:
Katie Curran - 2nd year of a 2 year term - not pursuing re-election
Amanda Williams - not pursuing re-election
Jennifer Flanagan - no pursuing re-election
Tim Wilshaw - 1st year of a 2 year term
Jennifer Williams - 1st year of a 2 year term
Mary Ruth Endicott - 1st year of a 2 year term
Olivier Cullen - 1st year of a 2 year term
Rob Smith - 1st year of a 2 year term
Shannon Donnelly (ex-officio member as GM of the Jr 67s)
As of June 20, 2025, there are 4 candidates that have come forward for a role on the board of Directors
Atefeh Mansouri
Maxwell Brennan
Tracy Ormos
Matt Young
Each board member is assigned a role on the board at the first board meeting following the AGM. Current roles are listed and outlined here.
Statement from the Board:
OGHA Board of Directors - 2024-25 Priorities and Progress
This year, the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Girls Hockey Association (OGHA) focused on four key priorities: program stability, financial sustainability, fairness in competitive tryouts, and advancing girls and women in hockey.
1. Program Stability
Our goal has been to support both strong house league and competitive programs. We recognize that these programs can sometimes compete for players, but we remain committed to ensuring accessible opportunities across all levels. Specifically, we aimed to maintain at least two house league teams at each age bracket to allow for a vibrant DS (Development Stream) program for players seeking more hockey. With national registration numbers in decline, we continue to prioritize growth and retention across all age groups and skill levels.
2. Financial Sustainability
Following a small financial loss last year, largely due to underutilized ice time, we implemented a centralized ice scheduler to optimize ice use. This helped reduce costs, improve scheduling efficiency, and contributed to a stronger financial position for the association this year.
3. Fairness in Competitive Tryouts
To further ensure integrity in our competitive program, we implemented an independent tryout coordinator to monitor each age group/level and continued to use independent evaluators during the Spring 2025 tryout process. The coordinator provided standardized assessment criteria and worked with the independent evaluators after each tryout to analyze results bringing further rigor and coordination to the tryout process.
4. Advancing Girls and Women in Hockey
We remain deeply committed to fostering an inclusive, empowering environment for girls and women in sport. This year, we took several meaningful steps, including:
- Designating female-only change rooms to ensure comfort, safety, and respect.
- Actively recruiting, mentoring, and supporting female coaches, and reinforcing their autonomy and leadership within a traditionally male-dominated sport.
- Welcoming players who are new to hockey at later ages and ensuring they have a clear, supported pathway to develop skills and thrive within the OGHA community.
Together, these initiatives reflect our ongoing commitment to building a strong, inclusive, and resilient hockey community—where every girl has the opportunity to play, grow, and lead.
