On Wednesday, March 5 the anticipated yearly Grads versus Teachers hockey game was held in 100 Mile House at the South Cariboo Rec Centre. This is the biggest event that the Dry Grad Committee puts together to raise money for Dry Grad each year. It has been going on for several years now with the community getting together to support us graduates.
Every year as a tradition for the graduate students, different sea creatures are chucked onto the ice every time a student scores a goal such as a lobster one year and an octopus another. This year there was frozen fish.
The students team was 21 strong on Wednesday while about 18 teachers and parents participated in the hockey game. Teachers from Peter Skene Odgen Secondary School, parents of the grad students and teachers from local elementary schools who had taught the Grade 12s all put in their best in the game.
In the first period of the game, Isaac Todd scored the first goal for the students! Throughout the game, Riley Beharrell, Curtis Bissat, Brock Ferguson, Harrison Findlay, Ty Kreschuk, Preston Lamy, Joshua Paddison and Lincoln Sutton all scored multiple times.
Many students, such as Lachlan Tanner, have been skating for about eight years and play for the 100 Mile House Minor Hockey League. Kolby Heit had also played hockey from the time he was four till around 14. They both played in the event of the game and did exceptionally well in helping score goals for the student.
Chris Lefluffy, one of the teachers who participated in the hockey game, has taught at PSO for 17 years and has played in the game for the last 12 years.
“As far as the hockey goes, there is a big discrepancy in experience, so some of us are just there to have fun and it is actually kind of neat to see students and some of the teachers, there will be people whose skill levels are much greater than you thought and just otherwise wouldn’t have known unless we got to see it in this sort of format,” Lefluffy remarked.
When finding out why students decided to play in the hockey game, Hayley Stobart said, “You can’t graduate without getting a chance to kick your teachers' butts!”
Throughout the game, teachers teased the students by tripping them with their sticks or putting them in headlocks.
Off the ice students like Tanner Tillotson, Destiny Hunter and Teagan Spies created a sign for their friend Claire Kreschuk to support her on the ice!
By the end of the night, the teachers won 15-13 but everyone had a great time and enjoyed the experience! When everything was totalled at the end of the night we raised around $3,503!
Thank you to everyone who came out to support the 2025 Dry Grad fundraiser and a big thank you to the arena and staff for their generous donation!
