The Bracknell Blizzard Ice Hockey Club came into existence due to a growing number of people who had watched the Bracknell Bees or other local sides and had always wanted to play the game but never had the chance. In 2005 Wendy Brown, David Lawrence and Chris Orritt set the club up and managed to get Mike Holt, Carl Hyland and Dave Johnston to be coaches, however the latter remained at the club for only a few months before moving on.The first official Blizzard training session was on 10th December 2005 at JNLC Bracknell.
The club is self funding with those who play paying to do so in both games and training, however the club is always looking for sponsorship oppertunities.

It wasn’t long before word had rapidly spread that there was a new ‘learn to play’ club in Bracknell and training sessions regularly had 30 people attending, which was a mixture of some people who had played before but the majority were new to the sport. The club remained un-registered for the first year but by October 2006 played it’s first game against the newly formed WD1 Bracknell Firebees winning 13 - 5. Soon after this, the club applied to the English Ice Hockey Association (EIHA) Rec section to become a registered recreational club opening up many opportunities to play against other similar teams across the country. Initially 32 people registered themselves to the team allowing them to play in the EIHA games.

The club played it’s first EIHA registered games on 17th and 18th March 2007 against the other Bracknell Rec side the Bracknell B52’s.
Despite losing heavily in both games, the hunger remained and the club earned it’s first ever registered EIHA win on 23rd June 2007 against the Medway Madness by a score line of 4 - 3 which was particularly impressive as with 20 minutes to go Medway were ahead 3 - 1.

In September 2007 the club entered the first Southern Conference (run by the Medway Madness) with 5 other local sides however, despite being the only club to finish all 10 of it’s games, the conference folded in May 2008 due to teams not fulfilling fixtures leaving the club to just playing challenge matches. The club structure changed in April 2008 to allow for management and coaching roles to be clearly defined to ensure that the club had a stable future that would allow for further development. It was at this point that Michael Wale (Mini) came on board as the new head coach with Mike Holt and Carl Hyland supporting him. In May/June 2008 the club played it’s first overseas games when invited to play the Rhine Ice Pirates in Cologne, Germany.
This has lead to a good relationship building between the 2 clubs in which it is hoped that future games will be arranged on both sides of the English Channel.

In January 2009 having not played a competitive match for over a year, the club entered the first Thames Valley Cup but unfortunately were placed in a tough group (with the B52’s and the Met Police) and failed to make it past the group stage despite some good performances. Spurred on by this the club decided to try and re-start the Southern Conference and in April 2009 Chris Orritt had managed to get 4 other teams to compete.
The Conference was a success on an organisational and team level with every game being completed and the Blizzard reaching the playoff final narrowly losing out by an aggregate score of 12 - 9 to the Guildford Smoke. In 2010 the club went one stage better by winning the Southern Conference group stage and playoff competitions.

In December 2010 the club will be 5 years old and will continue to go from strength to strength. The club is entering the 4th Conference in 2011 with more teams and is looking to defend it's titles this time with a mixture of those beginners from the start and people who have played previously who have joined the club.