29th July 2010
High Performance Coaches Workshop in Robin Hood Country!
The Welsh Hockey Union held its High Performance Coaching workshop over 2 days earlier this month at the FIH Samsung Champions Trophy in Nottingham. It was very well attended by Welsh international squad Head Coaches and Lead Specialists.
27th July 2010
Welsh Women Hockey Players Help Launch Olympic Stamps
The Welsh Senior Women's hockey squad are helping to launch the second of Royal Mail's London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games stamps.
U-21s off to Europe
The Men's and Women's U-21 squads will shortly be departing for Austria and Italy respectively for their EuroHockey Junior Nations Trophy tournaments. With both squads determined to improve on their results of two years ago (Men 5th, Women 6th) a number of new caps have been included. The Women's tournament unusually features 10 teams so it promises to be a long and hard tournament. Match scores and reports will be made available as soon as possible after each game.
Men's squad details Women's squad details
Equity in Hockey Questionnaire
Welsh Hockey are in the process of working towards the Equality Standards for Sport, an important set of standards to help us work towards making sure our sport is open and accessible to all members of the community.
An important part of this work is in establishing the profile of our current members. To assist us in the monitoring of our Equal Opportunities Policy and progressing this important work we hope members will take the time to complete our on-line questionnaire.
Download "Question and Answer" sheet explaining our equal opportunities monitoring and the reasons for doing it. For additional information about the Equality Standards for Sport please visit www.equalitystandard.org
Complete our on-line questionnaire
Sign up for the Level 1 Umpire Award!
A Level 1 Umpiring Award is being run in Llanelli on Wednesday 18th August. If you are interested in attending please download and complete the application and send to: Rae Ellis, Hockey Development Officer, Sports Development Department, Business Support Unit (Leisure), Parc Amanwy, New Road, Ammanford SA18 3EP
Download flier/application form
Tony Rhys-Jones Memorial Match
Cardiff & UWIC will face their Capital City rivals Whitchurch in a memorial match on Saturday 31st July at 14:00 at UWIC. All proceeds raised on the day will be passed to the Stroke Foundation so please support this very worthwhile cause.
Annual mixed international against England
This coming Saturday (24th July) sees the annual mixed international against England taking place at the National Hockey Centre, Cardiff at 14:45. Wales will be determined to overcome the reverses of the past two seasons and will be looking for plenty of vocal home support to help them along at this free entry match.
Please feel free to download and distribute the poster
EGM passes proposed changes
At the reconvened EGM held on Monday 12th July at SWNC, Cardiff and Colwyn Bay CC, the 25 clubs, schools and associations in attendance passed the proposed changes to both the Articles of Association and new membership registration fees. The AGM for 2009/10 will be held on Sunday September 19th at 14:00.
U18’s travel to Cork for 4 Nations
The U18 Boys and Girls left Cardiff on the long bus journey to Cork yesterday morning. Everyone was in high spirits until they saw the sea conditions at Fishguard!
The girls (sponsored by Positive Weather Solutions Ltd) will start their tournament against England at 20:00 this evening with the boys starting theirs tomorrow at 12:00 also against England. With neither squad having played this opposition this season they will have to be on the top of their game against a strong England contingent. Full squad details of the Boys can be found here and Girls here.
Match scores and reports will be made available as soon as possible after each game.
Women's Champions Trophy
Live web tv coverage of all matches in the tournament being held on Nottingham is available at http://www.laola1.tv/en/int/home/ with the next matches due to be played tomorrow (Thursday)
12th July 2010
Hockey superstar at school awards night
Wales and Great Britain international Sarah Thomas joined Welsh rugby international Gethin Jenkins and Paralympic gold medallist swimmer David Roberts at Tonyrefail Comprehensive Sports Award Night last Friday. Sarah was asked to present the hockey awards for the young players who showed promise throughout the school year.
Wales v New Zealand
As part of their preparation for the forthcoming 4 Nations tournament in England, New Zealand (World ranked 7th) played a training game against Wales. The first half was goalless with both sides struggling to string passes together, although the Welsh keeper Iwan Williams was the busier and had to make two fine saves to deny the Kiwis. In the second half both sides started to find spaces to work with and New Zealand struck their first goal in the 46’ after a defensive lapse again was heavily punished. Within a minute Wales conceded a second from the Kiwis 4th penalty corner. Goals continued to flow from New Zealand as in the 50’ they scored a third after a fast counter when precision passing opened the welsh defence and added a 4th in the 60’. Wales did create chances in the last quarter but could not finish. Wales certainly held their own for the first 45 minutes but once again conceded goals in quick concession.
8th July 2010
Welsh Internationals join the Wembley Legends in Nottingham
As part of the Women's Champions Trophy event being held by the England Hockey Board at Highfields Sports Club, Nottingham, a Wembley Legends match will be played between a team of ex-England stars and an Invitation team of former internationalists from Wales and Scotland.
7th July 2010
Tony Rhys-Jones
It is with deep regret that we have to advise you that Tony passed away earlier this morning. Tony was known to a huge number of people within hockey and it was only a couple of months ago that he was seen supporting his beloved Cardiff & UWIC HC at the EuroHockey Clubs tournament in Cardiff.
7th July 2010
Wales U-16 Girls go down to Ireland
A competitive start by a highly motivated Welsh team saw practices from the training field put into practice. Wales weathered a series of attacks and responded well to much of the Irish play
Welsh Hockey EGM
Those of you who attended the EGM on Sunday 4th July will be aware that due to the requisite number of Trustees (voters) in attendance not forming the necessary quorum, it was advised that the EGM will be reconvened next Monday evening (12th July) at 18:30 at Sophia 2, Sport Wales National Centre (formerly WIS) Cardiff and Colwyn Bay Cricket Club using telecommunication technology. The original Agenda will remain with no changes will made. Proxy votes which had been forwarded by clubs, schools and appropriate organisations will still be valid for the 12th July although if any club, school or appropriate organisations wish to attend and vote at the reconvened meeting the representation form should be completed and either forwarded to WHU by post, emailed to chris.brewer@welsh-hockey.co.uk or brought to the meeting itself.
If any club, school or appropriate organisations wish to change their proxy vote then please complete a new form and forward it to the WHU (as above) not less than 48 hours before the meeting i.e. by 18:30 on Saturday 10th July. Proxy forms cannot be accepted at the meeting itself.
All documents and forms are still available to download below.
EGM Voting information: Explanation of voting rights for all clubs, schools, associations
For further information please contact the WHU office.
6th July 2010
U-16 Boys go down to a strong Belgium
After a long weekend and in the heat, the boys were beginning to show signs of fatigue. They started very promisingly though... all in all, the trip was successful, and the development of these boys is very noticeable and encouraging.
6th July 2010
Newport School takes Welsh Hockey Title
A Newport primary school has won a national hockey title for the first time, beating competition from 153 schools and nearly two hundred teams from across Wales.
6th July 2010
Wales U21 Women find it tough going in the Celtic Cup
The Wales U21 Women were on the receiving end of some uncompromising hockey at the Celtic Cup in Cookstown. Whilst Wales managed some good moves and movement during each of their 3 matches, they were punished for not taking chances and for losing possession. There were some good individual performances but every player will need to step up to the plate if their capability is to be realised. Indeed, this was a wake up call on the value of maintaining possession and making it count against some strong teams which, if they learn from it, will stand them in good stead for the European Trophy at the end of July.
5th July 2010
Vets 60's+ Home Nations tournament
Wales hosted the Home Countries international tournament on 3rd July 2010 in Swansea. Wales fielded an Over 60s second team in the Over 65s competition, in which only the Scotland-England result counted towards the home championship. There was also a programme of friendlies on Sunday 4th July.
Men Announce Squad for New Zealand Match
The Senior Men play New Zealand at Loughborough University on Saturday 10th July starting at 12:00. New Zealand are in the UK ahead of a GB tournament in Nottingham. The Welsh squad includes 2 debutants, Nils Lloyd-Penny (Birmingham Uni.) and Rhys Gowman (Whitchurch).
2nd July 2010
Wales' largest independent weather forecasters sponsor the Welsh U18 Girls
Welsh Hockey is delighted to confirm that Positive Weather Solutions have signed a two year sponsorship agreement for the Welsh U18 Girls Hockey squad. The sponsorship was launched when Wales played France at The National Hockey Centre in Cardiff over the weekend of 26/27 June.
2nd July 2010
France has the edge over a developing Welsh squad
Last week-end Wales entertained France for what is now a regular fixture on the Under 18 Boys calendar. Coach Mike Yeoman was taking this opportunity to introduce several promising players from the Under 16s squad to see how well they would respond to competition and the next level.
2nd July 2010
Wales Under-21 Women head for Belfast
The Welsh U21 Team for the Junior Celtic cup to be held in his weekend was selected last weekend. The team is a blend of youth and experience with some of the players having represented Wales at Senior Level. At the other end of the spectrum several young talented players have been included in the squad.
2nd July 2010
Wales Under-18 Girls run France close
Wales U18 Girls hosted the French U18 Girls team in Cardiff last weekend. In blistering heat both teams competed well to start with and, to the delight of the enthusiastic crowd the home team took the lead after ten minutes.
