This Reporter happened by the Troy Sports Center, recently, to watch the Troy Sting Midget AA practice.

You will recall that this team was the 2007 Michigan State Midget A Champion and went on to take the Runner-Up Spot in the Nationals Tier II 16U at Great Lakes Sports City.

This isn't the first time that Sting MAA Head Coach Fred Costello has put together a Championship Team. His teams have gone to the Big Dance nearly every year since Squirts. And, Coach Costello's players, more often than not, move on from LCAHL to Higher Levels of Competition, which speaks well of his program!

Steven Oleksy, a Costello protégé, is a case in point. Oleksy, who started in LCAHL with the St. Clair Shores 1994 Mite AA Saints, began his association with Coach Costello on the Michigan Jaguars Squirt AA. In 2001, Steven played on Costello's Great Lakes Panthers Bantam AA Team which won the National Championship, in Georgia.

So, it is no surprise that, today, Steven is playing at a higher level. You will now find #22 Oleksy in his second year with Lake Superior State University, playing Defense for the Lakers, on scholarship.

This series of pictures highlights our Little Caesars Alumnus Steven Oleksy and the Troy Sting Midget AA ...

These photos were taken by Godfather92 with a Nikon SLR D200 using Sigma Lenses. Post Production included Adobe Photoshop Elements v2.0 and Microsoft FrontPage 2003.

The Webmaster is practicing, here, to learn how Puck Systems handles Photo Albums.

We call on all LCAHL Team Photographers to send us pictures. Shoot your pics at the highest resolution your camera allows and do not crop to less than 1,024 pixels wide ... bigger is better!

Tell us what the photos are about and supply captions for each shot. Tell us what camera/lenses you used. This will help all of us take Better Hockey Pictures!

Send your stuff to the Webmaster.

Anyhow, as Webmaster practice, this collection of photos was taken in the Fall of 2006 when the 92 Macomb Mavericks were pleased to have Philidelphia Flyers Captain Darien Hatcher join their Practice.

These photos were taken by Godfather92 with a Nikon SLR D70 using Nikkor Lenses. Post Production included Adobe Photoshop Elements v2.0 and Microsoft FrontPage 2003.