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Position: Forward

Age: 21

Height: 5’7

Weight: 71kg

When did you start playing hockey? 5 years old.

How did you even get into Ice Hockey? Partially mighty ducks and then partially watching Wayne Gretzky’s biography “Above and Beyond” until finally Dad took me to Blacktown Ice Rink to do development league with Anthony Wilson.

What was your favourite cartoon as a kid? Pokemon

First pair of hockey skates you owned? A pair of blue Grafs

What do you do in your spare time? Muck around with Cars and bikes a lot. Go the gym.

What is the best meal you can cook? Can you even cook? A bbq and 2 minute noodles would be my specialty.

What has been your favourite Doggies moment to date? My first season as a rookie in the playoffs was a good experience.

Do you have any advice for the youngsters coming up? Concentrate on your skating and work ethic is everything.

Favourite Music: R’n’b, Hip Hop

Favourite Car: Zonda Pagani

Who was your first crush on? Cameron Diaz

Your way to keep up to date on your team

You may have seen the RSS Feed logo around on the Ice Dogs website and wondered what it is all about.  Basically by signing up for the Ice Dogs RSS Feed, you are sent an email every time an Ice Dogs article is released on the website and hence you can keep up to date on the latest updates and feature stories of the team.

We know the off season has been long and the news has been slow.  But that will all change as the season approaches.

This season the Ice Dogs aim to bring you more news and keep all our supporters up to date on everything that is going on with the team.  The RSS Feed allows us to do just that and is also handy as you then can visit the website knowing something new is up to read about.

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Wilson Assistant Captain of Mens team again

Anthony Wilson has just recently been named Assistant Captain of the Australian Side travelling to Mexico.   Adelaide Adrenaline’s Greg Oddy will move in as Captain and Melbourne Ice’s Lliam Webster is the other Assistant Captain. 

“I would like to congratulate Greg on his recent selection as captain. He led the Adrenaline to an AIHL championship last year and is a perfect fit for the Mens team” said Wilson.

The ‘A’ comes as no surprise to Wilson as it will be his 11th time enduring the role of Assistant Captain of the Australian side.  If you didn’t read the last Ice Dogs article, Wilson joins five other Ice Dogs on the Australian Mens ice hockey team: Chris Sekura, Andrew White, Tomas Manco, Todd and Scott Stephenson.

Anthony Wilson as Australian captain in 2008

Great News for the Ice Dogs with six players named in the Australian Mens Team for the 2010 Division 2 World Championships.  Chris Sekura and Anthony Wilson are back in the fold after being unavailable for selection in 2009.  Other Ice Dogs in the team are Tomas Manco, Todd Stephenson, Andrew White and Scott Stephenson.

The tournament is held in Mexico City and the squad departs for training camp April 4th.  The tournament will be Wilson’s 15th  international showing (he has also captained the Australian Mens team for 3 years and been an assistant captain for 10 years over this time).  “Captaining the Aussies is the greatest acheivement I have had in ice hockey.  I think we can win this tournament if the players show discipline, buy into whatever system we have and score” says Wilson.  Although the AIHL and NST veteran won’t officially be leading the roo’s this year his leadership is definitely unquestionable.  “Having Willo back in the mix is a massive boost to the National team again as we have a younger squad this year which needs a bit of guidance” says Ice Dogs Tomas Manco.

You will be able to keep up to date on the Mens team at www.iihf.com and hopefully the Ice Dogs twitter and Ice Dogs website.   

So why is this big news for the Ice Dogs?  “Having  six players going through the Mens team camp and tough international play puts us in good stead and shape to start the season strongly” answers coach Mark Stephenson.

This years mens team will be hunting for Gold after the great taste of Division 2 gold in 2008 and being relegated from Division 1 last year in Lithuania.