The 2024 Kiwanis Hockey Festival marked its 31st year of this wonderful combined fund raising and sports tournament event.   

Over $785,000 has been raised and distributed to local youth and community service projects and other Kiwanis sponsored projects in the past 32 years.  (No Hockey Festival in 2020 due to pandemic restrictions.)

The needs of various youth and community organizations are reviewed each year for future hockey festival donations by the 4 participating Kiwanis Clubs and distributed by them.

Over 100 Kiwanians spent well over 1800 hours throughout the year planning and supporting the event and we expect even more effort to go into our next festival.

Future Team Participation: The 2025 Kiwanis Hockey Festival will be Dec 29, 30 and 31st.

If you would like your NFHS sanctioned high school hockey team to participate in next season's Hockey Festival, please contact Vern Yetzer, vyetzer59@gmail.com . . Please include this information:

• team name and location

• do you have JV and Varsity teams,

• when do you need a response from our hockey festival committee,

• how many seasons would you like to participate in the festival. 

What else can you do to help?

If you or your organization wish to help the Rochester Area Kiwanis clubs make this year's Hockey Festival another successful event, please contact Festival Directors Vern Yetzer (507) 358-8489  vyetzer59@gmail.com   or Bill Kalmes at (507) 288-0142 w.kalmes@smithschafer.com

Be sure and stop in and thank any of our sponsors for their support of the Hockey Festival.  A complete list of all our supporters can be found under the "Major Sponsors" link
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Previous Hockey Festival Team winner history and photos available at this link: PrevChamps.htm