{"id":23608,"date":"2014-10-21T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23608"},"modified":"2014-10-21T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:06:58","slug":"upland-country-day-school-nhl-chis-bala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=23608","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NHL player hosts clinic at Upland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_965064\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Chris-Bala-300x250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-965064\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-965064\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Chris-Bala\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Chris-Bala-300x250.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-965064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former National Hockey League player Chris Bala hosted a clinic at Upland Country Day School recently.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Upland Country Day School hosted a community ice hockey skills clinic\u00a0coached by guest instructor Chris Bala, a former NHL player and current\u00a0Varsity Coach at The Hill School.<\/p>\n<p>Bala played four years of Varsity\u00a0Hockey at the Hill School before being recruited by Harvard University,\u00a0where he played from 1997-2001. He was selected 58th overall by the\u00a0Ottawa Senators in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, and played in the NHL during\u00a0the 2001-02 season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He returned to his alma mater, The Hill School, in\u00a02007 as an Admissions Officer and Varsity Hockey Coach. The clinic had 25\u00a0youth participants aged 9 \u0096 12 from the Chester County area. Bala worked\u00a0with them on stick skills, shooting and skating drills. Upland&#8217;s on campus\u00a0rink is home to Upland&#8217;s teams as well as the local community through the\u00a0Chester County Skating Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Upland Country Day School hosted a community ice hockey skills clinic\u00a0coached by guest instructor Chris Bala, a former NHL player and current\u00a0Varsity Coach at The Hill School. Bala played four years of Varsity\u00a0Hockey at the Hill School before being recruited by Harvard University,\u00a0where he played from 1997-2001. He was selected 58th overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}