SHARKS LEGENDS GAME PHOTO's ON-LINE
Eighty-nine photographs from the Solway Sharks V's Sharks Legends 10th Anniversary Celebration game played at Dumfries Ice Bowl on the 9th of May are now on-line.

Click the following link to view the photo's.

DUMFRIES ICE BOWL SCOTLAND'S FIRST ICE HOCKEY CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
On Saturday the 9th of May, during the first interval of the 10th Anniversary Celebration game Dumfries and Galloway Council and the SIHL publicly signed a document to make Dumfries Dumfries Ice Bowl Scotland's first Centre of Excellence for Ice Hockey.

Over the last 6 months Dumfries and Galloway Council has been working hard with Scottish Ice Hockey Limited, with a view to developing a robust partnership agreement which will benefit ice hockey from grass roots level through to Excellence / National level. The partnership has also allowed the Ice Bowl the privilege and honour of being named Scotland's first Centre of Excellence for ice hockey.

The partnership will allow the SIHL to make use of vital resources in Dumfries such as ice time, dry land training facilities, fitness facilities and the state of the art audio visual technology at DGOne. It is planned that the national training programme will make use of dedicated ice time, (a minimum of 75 hours per year) to allow all national age groups to train and play; hopefully leading to greater success at Nottingham, Hull and greater representation on the GB front. It is also planned that national and Club coaches will be able to attend professional development courses hosted by D&G Council, as well as Dumfries being a base for SIHL coaching and referee course.

The partnership will also benefit our local players, club and development programme. Promoting ice hockey across the region, allowing our local players to learn from the best coaches in the country, and provide an aspirational target for our up and coming players. The partnership runs, initially, for 3 years. However, we can already see the benefits to our local set-up.

SHARKS AGM ANNOUNCED
The Solway Sharks have announced that the Annual General Meeting will take place in Dumfries Ice Bowl at 7:30pm on Monday the 29th of June 2009.

SHARKS SKIPPER & NETMINDER SIGN ON FOR ANOTHER TERM
The Solway Sharks are pleased to announce that club captain Mark Gallagher and starting netminder Gary Russell have put pen to paper and signed to play for the Solway Sharks next season.

In addition to leading the Sharks by example Mark played in all but one fixture in the 2008/09 season scoring twenty-one goals with thirty assists while spending just thirty-two minutes in the penalty box.

Gary Russell has had an excellent season in the Sharks cage and has proved himself to be the top keeper everyone believed him to be. Gary faced no less than 1,626 shots in his 2,642 minutes in the Sharks goal for a save percentage of 89.85% which doesn't truly reflect his performances between the sticks.

The Solway Sharks would like to welcome both players back into the Sharks family.

THREE SCORE BIG FOR CHARITY
On the weekend of May 2nd & 3rd Alan Crane, Scott McMeeken andeEx Shark John Downes completed the Gold Course of the Maggie's Bike and Hike making well over £1000 for the charity.

The three of them cycled thirty miles and then hiked forty-eight miles to complete the course and they had blisters on blisters by the time they had finished. They would like to thank all the people that sponsored them for this good cause.