STELLAR DEFENSEMAN SIGNS TENDER WITH JR. THUNDERBOLTS FOR ’16-17 NA3HL SEASON MICHIGAN BORN JEREMY ROSS COMING TO EVANSVILLE TO BOLSTER TEAM’S BLUE LINE JR. THUNDERBOLTS NOW WITH FIRST THREE PLAYERS IN FOLD FOR UPCOMING CAMPAIGN
EVANSVILLE, IN— Continuing to move forward in building their second team for the upcoming 2016-17 NA3HL elite junior hockey league season, the Evansville Jr. ThunderBolts have landed another top-drawer newcomer to significantly improve the club’s defense for team season number two.
On this date, Jr. ThunderBolts General Manager/Head Coach Mark Cody has announced that defenseman JEREMY ROSS has signed his tender expressly to join the Evansville club for the upcoming 2016-17 NA3HL campaign.
ROSS, 6-0 180lb, comes to the Jr. ThunderBolts following an outstanding high school hockey career at perennial State of Michigan powerhouse Trenton High School. A three-year standout at Trenton HS, ROSS registered 1-goal, 5-assists, 6-points and 8-PIM in his final senior year with his Trenton team. Moreover, in his senior season, he earned nomination for MIHL All-State Honorable Mention and was also voted by high school coaches for the Hobey Baker Award for character, sportsmanship and academic achievement.
GM/Coach Cody is thrilled to have ROSS in his stable of promising defensemen for his initial season at the helm of the State of Indiana’s only elite junior hockey team and credits one of his present, incumbent players for making this acquisition happen. “Jeremy comes highly-recommended from current ‘Bolts player Brandon Rozema. Jeremy is a very smart, solid, puck-moving defenseman who will elevate the standards set for our back end enormously. He is a young man of great character and he will be expected to bring such qualities to our team for this upcoming season. I am really looking forward to seeing Jeremy in a ‘Bolts uniform.â€
The Jr. ThunderBolts newest blue line stalwart actually attained top billing on his Trenton title timber team as a precocious 10th grade star and never looked back in his ensuing high school career as he sparked Trenton HS to the 2013-14 MHSAA State Championship. In his following season of 2014-15, as a member of the school’s Junior class, ROSS engineered 6-assists, attaining his first of two consecutive MIHL All-State Honorable Mention distinctions.
Today’s signing of defenseman JEREMY ROSS brings the total to three (3) players presently listed on the Jr. ThunderBolts roster for the 2016-17 NA3HL elite junior hockey league season. Last week, the local hometown team announced the arrivals of newcomers, forward KORY KIFER and defenseman ANDREW WARE, both Evansville local products from the Thunder HS program which operated under the coaching auspices of Mark Cody in 2015-16.
