Dave Ogrean Public Relations Director FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 12, 1979)

1 0 Lake Circle Colorado Springs, Colo. 80906 COUNTDOWN TO LAKE PLACID CONTINUES; Phone: (303) 471-9400 ROSTERS FOR 1979 TWX : 910-920-4946 Cable Address : AHAUS CSP NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED

CHICAGO The Olympic ice hockey effort took another step down the road to Lake Placid and the 1980 Ol~pic Winter Games this week when Tommy Ivan, Festival Hockey Chairman, announced the seventy players who will compete in the second National Sports Festival this summer.

This year's Festival will be the final stage in the Olympic hockey team selection process, as Olympic coach and General Manager

Ken Johannson will invite twenty-six players to remain at the Colorado

Springs Olympic Training Center following the six-day pageant.

Ivan said that the 1979 gathering will again feature the regional team format, with squads representing New England, the Great Lakes area, the Midwest and a Central (At-Large) entry taking part in the ice hockey competition.

The United States Olympic Committee-sponsored event, designed to give America's top amateur athletes an Olympic-type competitive opportunity in non-Olympic years and to maintain public interest in amateur athletics, will this year feature over 2,500 athletes in thirty sports. Only three winter games are included in the Festival: ice hockey, figure skating and • short-track speed skating.

The staff of each NSF ice hockey entry will be composed of a General Manager, an active American college coach, an active AHAUS coach and • a former U.S. Olympic hockey player. The 1979 hockey competition will A.H.A. be a single round-robin affair extending over the six days of the Festival, July 27 to August 1. r~ - more - amateur hockey association of the united states . 1:1 1979 National Sports Festival hockey rosters (3) Dave Ogrean Public Relations Director MIDWEST 1 0 Lake Circle Colorado Springs, Colo. 80906 General Manager: Ron Woodey Phone: (303) 471 -9400 : , TWX : 91 0-920-4946 -Duluth Cable Address: AHAUS CSP Ass't. Coaches: Jack Barzee Jim McElmury CD Goalkeepers: Blaine Comstock Roseau Leafs Roseau, MN U. Minnesota White Bear Lake, MN Paul Joswiak Erie (NEHL) Mahtomedi, MN

Defensemen: Les Auge Oklahoma City (CHL) St. Paul, MN Bill Baker U. Minnesota Grand Rapids, MN Gerry Hanglsleben West Germany Swift, MN Jim Korn Providence College Minnetonka, MN U. Minnesota , MN Forwards: U. Minnesota Roseau, MN • Steve Christoff U. Minnesota Richfield, MN U. Minnesota Bloomington, MN John Harrington Minn.-Duluth Virginia, MN David Lundeen Johnstown (NEHL) Minneapolis, MN Don Madson Milwaukee (THL) Grand Rapids, MN Rob McClanahan U. Minnesota St. Paul, MN Don Micheletti U. Minnesota Hibbing, MN Minn. -Duluth Eveleth, MN U. Minnesota Duluth, MN

CENTRAL

General Manager: Andy Devine Head Coach: , Bowling Green Ass't. Coaches: CD Peter Loeb, Steve Alley

Goalkeepers: Mike Dibble Oklahoma City (CHL) Minneapolis, MN Peter Waselovich Warroad Lakers Int'l. Falls, MN

Defensemen: Jeff Brownschidle Notre Dame E. Amherst, NY Bob Grant Dartmouth College Milton, MA Bill Himmelright North Dakota Bemidji, MN John Slomin Brown University Duluth, MN Greg Woods Denver University Babbitt, MN • Forwards: Jim Armstrong Clarkson College Ithaca, NY David Christian North Dakota Warroad, MN CD Mark Johnson U. Wisconsin Madison, WI Scott Lecy U, Wisconsin Rochester, MN Dam Lempe Minn. -Duluth Grand Rapids, Joe Mullen , NY A.H.A. Tom Mullen Grand Rapids (IHL) New York, NY U. Minnesota Rochester, MN Tom Vannelli Switzerland St. Paul, MN r~ Kevin Zappia Clarkson College Massena, NY Jt###. 30 #.lt## • amateur hockey assoc1at1on of the un1ted states li 1979 National Sports Festival hockey rosters (2) Dave Ogrean Public Relations Director NEW ENGLAND 1 0 Lake Circle Colorado Springs, Colo. 80906 Phone : (303) 471 -9400 General Manager: Ron DeGregorio TWX : 910-920-4946 Head Coach: Charlie Holt, Cable Address : AHAUS CSP Univ. of New Hampshire Ass't. Coaches: Dick Movessvian CD Dick Lamby Goalkeepers: Boston, MA Mark Holden Brown University Weymouth, MA J ay Palladino Salem State Chelsea, MA

Defensemen: Jack Hughes Harvard University Somerville, MA Mike Mastrullo Brown University Billerica, MA Jack 0' Callahan Boston University Charlestown, MA Jim Walsh Northeastern Univ. Chestnut Hill, MA Bill Whelton Boston University Charlestown, MA

Forwards: Colin Ahern Providence College Tewksbury, MA • Paul Castraberti Yale University Burlington, MA Ralph Cox U. of New Hampshire Braintree, MA Mark Fidler Boston University Charlestown, MA Jon Fontas Saginaw Gears (IHL) Lexington, MA Mark Hetnik Boston University Brookline, MA George Hughes Harvard University Somerville, MA Daryl MacLeod Boston University Melrose, MA Frank Roy U. of New Hampshire Berlin, NH David Silk Boston University Marshfield, MA

GREAT LAKES

General Manager: Don Randle Head Coach: Bill Selman, St. Louis U. CD Ass't. Coaches: Carl Lindstrom Pat Rupp

Goalkeepers: Bruce Horsch Flint (IHL) Hasting, MN John Rockwell Michigan Tech Bloomington, MN

Defensemen: Dave Feamster Colorado College Redford, MI Ted Hue sing Michigan State Detroit, MI Tim Manning Univ. of Michigan Dearborn Hgts, MI Bowling Green Davison, MI • Northern Michigan Detroit, MI Forwards: Bill Army Boston College Providence, RI CD Bill Cotter Boston University Charlestown, MA Dave Delich Colorado College Eveleth, MN Toledo (THL) Winthrop, MA Craig Homola Univ. of Vermont Eveleth, MN A.H.A. Dan Lerg Univ. of Michigan Southfield, MI Paul Miller Boston University Billerica, MA Craig Roehl Spokane (PCL) St. Clair Shores, Milwaukee (IHL) Babbitt, MN r~ Bowling Green St. Clair Shores, amateur hockey association of the united states II