The Herb Brooks Foundation (HBF) will induct the Brodt Family into the HBF Youth Hockey Hall of Fame at this year’s annual HBF Golf Classic, honoring the family’s long-standing commitment to the development of hockey in Minnesota.

Jack, Vic, Kerry, Winny and Chelsey Brodt will be honored at an awards luncheon at Noon on June 16 at the Welcome Center of the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn. 

Members of the Brodt family have been involved with hockey in Minnesota for decades, with generations of Brodts contributing to a rich hockey tradition in Roseville, a Twin Cities suburb. Whether playing mites, peewees, bantams, high school, collegiate, professional, or international, the Brodts have solidified themselves as a vital piece of Minnesota’s storied hockey history. 

Jack Brodt, the senior leader of the Brodt clan, played hockey for Alexander Ramsey High School, and has been a staple of the Roseville community since 1962. Much has changed since Jack’s playing days at Alexander Ramsey, including the name of the school, which later became Roseville Area High School.

“My whole high school career was played outside at the rink at Alexander Ramsey High School,” Jack said. “When I was playing it was all outdoors at the local playgrounds or Como Lake.”

Jack still actively plays hockey himself, in addition to supporting his children who have carved their own names into Minnesota hockey lore. “Hockey is something that you can do all your life. It’s just the enjoyment of playing the game itself that kept my wife and myself and all my kids interested,” Jack commented.

Jack and his wife, Marlene, can be assigned responsibility for much of the hockey talent in the Brodt lineage.

“We started them off skating when they were about 18 months old,” Jack said. “My wife would take them every single day, she’d take them Monday to Friday then I’d take them Saturday and Sunday. In the winter they skated every day.”

The road was not always smooth for the Brodt children, but their persistence paid off and the on-ice skills they developed at a young age kick started their successful hockey careers.

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