Sheffield Hockey Club

We’re really looking forward to what looks like to be a very full and interesting season and we can’t wait to welcome you all back onto the pitch! Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve got planned and some key dates for your diary.

Junior sessions

Coaching sessions will take place on Sunday mornings from 9:00am-12.00pm at Abbeydale.

 Under 9: 9:00am-10:00am

 U10 -U12 Girls and Boys: 9:00am-10:30am

 U14-U16 Girls and Boys: 10:30am-12:00pm

 YYHL

We have entered eight teams into the Yorkshire Youth Hockey Leagues for U10-U16 Girls and Boys. There are six match days for each team throughout the season.

This season the club is levying a £3 match fee per player for each match day.

The EH central calendar is available for download from this website, see policies and downloads.

 Indoor

Yorkshire also plans to introduce indoor hockey sessions; these will be held in Bradford and will be after Christmas. Indoor hockey is a fast, exciting game that sadly fell into decline when artificial pitches with floodlights meant that we were able to play and train through the winter months. Over the past three years a lot of emphasis has been put back into the indoor game both at England and National League level.

 Junior Umpiring

Some of you have already taken the Foundation Umpire Award, we would like to think that all of you  have access to achieve this qualification by the end of the season should you wish to. We would also expect that those with an umpiring qualification would help out at least once during the season with the U12’s & possibly the U14 match days.

 Senior Hockey

U14 & U16 players may receive an invitation from the Club Captain to train with the Senior section of the club on Tuesday or Thursday night, with an additional possibility that they are asked to play in senior matches at weekends.

 Performance Juniors

In line with England Hockey’s Talent ID Programme, the Sheffield Hallam Performance Theme Group is planning to select a group of ‘Performance Juniors’ for additional coaching sessions under the guidance of our Centrally Contracted Coaches. This group will be selected by the Performance Coaches currently working in the clubs senior programme, with the age group coaches making their recommendations.    

The ‘Junior Performance Training Group’ will be selected mid to late October and it is intended that these training sessions will replace, and not be in addition to, the players’ existing training commitments.

 Communication

The Junior Exec will be using email as the preferred method of communication this season so please ensure that we have details of all e-mail addresses that we can use to send out details of matches, training etc.

Volunteering

Last but not least volunteer positions at the club are yet to be filled. If anyone is interested in being part of the junior campaign this season please refer to the vacancies tab of this website.

Contact details

If you have any questions or problems please not hesitate to contact me, e-mail [email protected]

Simon Law

Sheffield Hockey Club

Hockey Development Officer

Dates for your diary:

Junior registration evening           

Tuesday 6^thand Thursday 8^thSeptember

 6:30-7:30pm

Abbeydale Sports club

Junior Hockey starts

Sunday 11th September

Break for Christmas

Sunday 11^thDecember

New Year Restart

 Sunday 8^thJanuary 2012

Finish

Sunday 1^stApril 2012

Easter Camp

 2^nd-5^thApril 2012

Junior Awards

Saturday  28^thApril 2012

Bank Holiday Camp

5^th, 6^th, 7^th May 2012