overview
40+ Years of History. The Washington Little Capitals (Little Caps) is an elite Tier 1 hockey organization that formed in 1983. Little Caps teams, from Pee Wee to Midget, play in the Atlantic Youth Hockey League (AYHL) and Tier 1 Elite Hockey League (T1EHL).
Once players become Little Caps, we are committed to continuously evaluating and supporting their development throughout the season. This gives them consistent feedback and communication from their coach letting them know where they are making progress and where they still need to improve. Our coaches demonstrate patience and commitment to the players we select for our program. In turn, we expect our players to demonstrate hard work, commitment, and dedication to excellence at every practice and every game.
Our goal is to develop not just elite hockey players, but young men and women of character. As an elite sports program, we expect our players to maintain high standards both on the ice and in the classroom. We want to help our kids become the best hockey players they can be. We will provide our players with a great hockey experience, but also a great environment that promotes values of discipline and hard work. We will develop our players, and give them exposure opportunities so they can advance beyond our program. And we will instill habits of excellence in our players that will help them to be successful not just in hockey, but in life. We want our players and our program to develop the reputation so that coaches at any level ? from juniors to college ? know that when you recruit a Little Caps you are not only going to get a great player, but a great kid as well -- so that when a scout in a showcase watches one of our kids on the ice, see their habits, fundamentals and character, they can say: That's a Little Cap!