








Next Level Player Development Hockey Academy combines high-level on-ice hockey IQ development with NCAA-approved courses along with Honors and AP academics through Brighton Area Schools.
With a full support system behind every athlete, Player Development Specialists, Board Members, and Business Development Team, we don’t just develop players—we help build futures. No player left behind.
Next Level Player Development was built for families who refuse to choose between elite athletics and elite education — and for athletes who understand that greatness is earned in every area of life.
This is a pathway designed to challenge the athlete, support the student, and shape the leader.

Training is designed to build habits, detail, and awareness that translate to higher levels of play.
Student-athletes are developed within a respected academic pathway built for long-term success.
Players are supported as athletes, students, and future professionals through real-world mentorship.
This is a development system designed to prepare athletes for college, hockey, business, and life.
At Next Level, the standard is non-negotiable. We train with purpose. We coach with detail. We demand habits that translate to junior, collegiate, and professional levels.

Through our partnership with Brighton Area Schools, our student-athletes receive a structured, accredited, and respected academic experience. This isn’t an afterthought. It’s a pillar.
When your player moves on to Junior Hockey as a student-athlete, they will continue to have full access to BAS teachers, because in Junior Hockey, players will be attending school online. Your player will receive a diploma from Brighton High School.

Academic structure, accountability, and continuity are part of the athlete development model. Players are expected to grow in every area, not just on the ice.
Through our business development group, we stay with our players. We empower them to transition with confidence, build new skills, and design a life beyond the ice they are proud of.
Hockey is the vehicle. Character is the destination.

All aligned. All intentional. All driven by character.
We are building elite athletes. We are developing disciplined students. We are shaping confident leaders prepared for college, business, and life.
This is development without compromise. This is a pathway with purpose. This is Next Level Player Development.

I hereby give my permission for my child(ren) player to participate in the Next Level Player Development Academy or Program(s) or as known as (NLPD Hockey Academy or NLPD Academy or Program(s)) Participation in any program which involves physical activity exposes the skaters to certain risks and dangers. Accidents and injuries are always a possibility, and it is impossible to foresee and protect the skaters from all conceivable dangers. I hereby affirm that my child(ren) player has/have no conditions that would make it unsafe for him/her/them to
participate in Next Level Player Development Academy and program(s).
I understand that the Next Level Player Development Academy or Program(s) may exclude my child(ren) from skating or off ice workouts in the event that I or my child(ren) fail to abide by the NLPD Academy or Program(s), or Brighton Area Schools, health and safety protocols, disrupt, impede or interfere with the operations of the NLPD Academy or Program(s) or threaten the health, safety or welfare of other participants or Next Level Player Development Academy or Program(s) staff, and that no refund of any fees will be made in such circumstances. Medical Consent: I understand that the NLPD Academy or Program(s) will NOT be held liable and parent(s) accept responsibility for the costs of all such medical treatment.
Photography Release: In consideration of child(ren)’s participation at the NLPD Academy or Program(s) and without any further consideration from the NLPD Academy or Program(s), I hereby grant permission to the NLPD Academy or Program(s) staff and affiliates to utilize my child(ren)’s appearance, performance or voice in any and all manner and media throughout the world for the purpose of promotion, reporting or publication. The NLPD Academy or Program(s) may use my child(ren)’s, likeness, voice and biographical material in connection with publication, promotion, and distribution of such material. I understand that no royalty, fee or any other compensation of any kind shall become payable to me by reason of such release and use of any photograph on ice or off ice workouts
By signing this Waiver and Release of Liability, with full appreciation of the risk involved, on my own behalf and on behalf of my child(ren), I hereby voluntarily release and forever discharge the NLPD Academy or Program(s), its staff Arena (Hartland Ice House) or Brighton Area Schools, responsibility for any personal injury, disability, illness, damage, medical expense or death, arising from NLPD Academy or Program(s) or related to my child(ren)’s participation in NLPD Academy or Program(s). I agree, for myself and my child(ren), not to make any type of legal or equitable claim on the NLPD Academy or Program(s), or any of its trustees, officers, employees, staff, agents, insurers or contractors with respect to any injury I or my child(ren) may suffer, whether or not it arises through the negligence, omission, default or other action of anyone affiliated with the NLPD Academy or Program(s), including other skaters, I further agree that if any such claim is made, I will indemnify and defend the NLPD Academy or Program(s) with respect to any such claim, injury or damage.