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Apr 10, 2025 | David McCowan | 369 views
Introducing the U14 BB/B Red Jr Ranger Coaches
Welcome to the webpage for the 2025-26 U14 Kitchener Jr Rangers BB Red team! Please click link below for information about our coaches...


The team is led by head coach Dave McCowan. Dave has been involved with coaching hockey going back to initiation hockey and most recently has led the BB/B Kitchener Jr Rangers to back-to-back Alliance Championships at Tier 1. Dave is a Recreation Therapist that supports children and youth in mental health and pairs those clinical skills with his passion for competitive hockey to develop ‘complete’ hockey players. Dave fosters a culture within his coaching staff that aims to actively strive to understand the athlete, their individual strengths and goals, and then support them to work hard in applying their strengths to the team’s goals, and establish a winning culture fueled by motivated athletes. Effective communication with players and families, remaining open to feedback, building confidence and self-efficacy, emphasizing a team-first approach, focusing on a balance between hard work and fun, are all priorities. Dave prepares well-paced and engaging practices where coaches actively teach right in the moment.

Working right alongside Dave, for the past two years, is defensive coach Mike Ryan. Mike has a long-standing head coaching career from initiation right up to the seeded level. Most recently, Mike has led the league best d-core for the past two consecutive seasons.

Dave and Mike are both lifelong students of the game, continually focused on how the game is changing and where it is headed. They remain resilient about how best to develop young hockey players, and how to support their identity as a hockey player through participation in continuous learning. Dave and Mike commit themselves to bringing a well-informed, carefully thought out plan each season and to each individual practice and game along the way. They believe excellence comes with connectivity on and off the ice. This means having consistent messaging from the leadership group (coaches), everyone understanding their job within the team, and everyone pulling in the same direction.

Dave and Mike are supported each year by experienced coaches with excellent hockey acumen. The team is very excited to have secured their goalie-specific personnel for the 2025-26 season which will ensure another year of exceptional goaltender development.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Dave or Mike directly. To browse the team page for previous years, please follow the links below.

2023-24 Kitchener Jr Rangers Blue - Alliance Champions
Record: 22-5-5
Web: https://kitchenerminorhockey.com/Teams/9706/  

2024-25 Kitchener Jr Rangers Red - Alliance Champions
Record: 26-2-3
Web: https://kitchenerminorhockey.com/Teams/10393/

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Sponsors
Timbits
The Timbits Minor Sports Program is a community-oriented sponsorship program for children four to eight years old who participate in local house league sports teams. The program's philosophy is not based on winning or losing - but on learning a new sport, making new friends, and just taking time out to be a kid. Tim Hortons currently sponsors over 200,000 children who play on hockey, soccer, lacrosse, t-ball, baseball and ringette teams across Canada and in the United States. Each sponsored team is supplied with Timbits Minor Sports jerseys or T-shirts. Timbits hockey teams are often given the opportunity to play on-ice scrimmages during intermissions at Junior, American Hockey League (AHL) and National Hockey League (NHL) games and do so with our own KITCHENER JR. A RANGERS. Tim Horton's once again sponsor's our 40 entry level HL teams this year.
Desjardins Insurance
Proud Sponsors of youth Hockey, Desjardins Insurance is the insurance unit of Desjardins Group, the largest association of credit unions in Canada. Desjardins Insurance has two principal subsidiaries: Desjardins Financial Security and Desjardins General Insurance.
Scotiabank
Scotiabank returns as a PLATINUM LEVEL SPONSOR for yet another season. They have five Kitchener branches to serve you. Last season, local Scotiabank managers were instrumental in arranging to feature our Peewee Bisons on Hockey Night in Canada! Thanks Scotiabank!
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
Our friends at Toyota continue to support Kitchener Minor Hockey by returning as a House League Gold Sponsor yet again for this season. Toyota also sponsors the Toyota Challenge featuring teams from the region in competition and the opportunity to travel to Japan. The Toyota Hockey Challenge consists of round robin competition amongst top Kitchener, Waterloo & Cambridge teams, with the top two teams then competing in a one-game show down that will determine the team to represent the Tri-Cities in a once-in-a-lifetime cultural exchange to Japan. The team that wins the Toyota Hockey Challenge will travel to Hokkaido, Japan during March Break for a cultural exchange with the Tomakomai Allstars, all expenses paid by TMMC. Thanks Toyota!