10-11 Billet Info

Welcome to Paris Mounties Hockey!  As Billet co-ordinator for this season, I look forward to renewing friendships with our existing billet families and meeting new billet families.  As our new partnership with the Illinois Frontenacs continues, there will be opportunities for out of country players to play for the Mounties.

Being a billet family is both a wonderful and rewarding experience. This experience is a great way to get involved in the community, as well as develop some very special bonds with our Mountie players and their families. For our billets, this will be their first time away from home and they will be in need of a stable living environment for their move to our area. Part of our commitment to our players and their parents is to provide them with a good home.

In the billet homes, the players are encouraged to become involved with the family that so generously welcomed them. As a member of the household, the players are expected to share in the daily chores as well as maintain their own rooms and do their own laundry. On occasion, the players may have to look after their own meals, if the billets are away.

The players will have a very structured schedule for the entire time they will be placed in your home. Some players may still be in school and others are encouraged to find part-time employment. The team has a set curfew that all of the players need to abide by in order for our team to be successful. To help with the expense of housing a player, the organization provides our billets an allowance per player per month.

Below we have included the guidelines for billets for the season and a few testimonials from past/current billets.

If after considering the possibility of welcoming a player into your home you have more questions please do not hesitate to contact our billet co-ordinator, Rina Macdonald at 519-220-0788.

Paris Mounties, Billeting Guidelines and Rules

The following guidelines have been set and agreed on by both players and management. If any problems arise, please call Lothar, Tim or Peter.

1. Curfews are for the benefit of these athletes. Players are to be at their own billets by 10:30pm. Nights before a game, curfew is set at 10:00pm. On home game nights, all players are to be at their own billets by 12 midnight. Away games, the players are to be home within 1/2 hour of arrival back at the rink. Special nights will be given off by management.

2. Leaving the local area is not allowed. Players must get permission from management and notify billets well in advance.

3. Players, if registered, must attend all classes, either high school or university, including after away games. Notify the office at 519-442-1777 and the coaching staff if they will be late or absent. Players should give billets a timetable of their classes.

4. Players who are not in school, are encouraged to find a part time job.

5. Abuse of any substance will not be tolerated. It is a League Rule: offence of any substance will result in a 30 day suspension of playing in any hockey game.

6. Players are to inform their billets well in advance if they will not be home for a meal.

7. There are to be no visitors at billets home after curfew hours or at any time unless proper arrangements and understandings have been made by the players and their billets.***NO SLEEP OVERS***

8. Players shall live by their billets house rules. Communication is the key to success and things that are not acceptable in your home may have been in theirs. Unless these problems are addressed, peeves may fester into larger problems. (ie: shower use, telephone usage, dishes, shoes in the house, tidiness, etc.)

9. Players should take the initiative to make their own meals, do their own laundry and volunteer around the house when billets require assistance.

10. Players and billets should discuss the meals best suited for both. Player should eat a balanced diet. High carbohydrate, low fat diets are ideal. Vegetables are important to maintain proper tissue and cell repair.

11. The most important rule is that of common sense and good communication. Respect is a two-way program.

Dress code for home games

*Shirt and tie 

*Sweater or sport jacket 

*Dress or casual pants and Dress shoes

This past season was a first for the Mounties in terms of a billet.  We billeted a player from Fon du Lac Wisconson and one from Aurora Ontario.  We know it was a great experience for the family, the player and the player's family. We're sure it will be that way for you too.

Thank You For Your Interest.