Cochrane teenager Ty Bauer has signed with the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League. “We’re really excited for him.
Cochrane teenager Ty Bauer has signed with the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League.
“We’re really excited for him. It’s a great opportunity, and I know for a 15-year-old to make a decision like that is a big one, ” said Ryan Hilderman, president of P3 Sports, where Bauer is a member of P3’s Cochrane Hockey Academy and has been skating with the organization since he was eight or nine years old.
“He’s starting to see some of the rewards for his efforts in the past few years. It’s pretty cool. ”
Bauer, a 6-foot-1 defenseman who played last season with the Airdrie Extreme Bantam AAA team, was selected by the Thunderbirds in the second round of the WHL bantam draft in May. Earlier this month, he took part in a Thunderbirds summer development camp in which the hockey squad got a chance to see him in action.
The official announcement of Bauer’s WHL Standard Player Agreement came from the team yesterday.
“Ty is a very solid all-round defenseman who skates very well and has a very impressive presence on the ice in all situations, ” the T-Birds general manager Russ Farwell said in a release. “He plays to impact the game every shift and will be a leader on our team in the future. ”
Hilderman said Bauer will now have a couple of years to “train hard and train smart ” before he hits the ice with the T-Birds. As a condition of the Standard Player Agreement, Bauer is guaranteed a WHL scholarship for every year he plays in the league, including tuition, fees and textbooks.
