This weekend sees the first league games for most sides (other than the ladies 3s who were quick out the blocks last weekend). If you can pop down before your game or stay after to support other teams it really does make a difference. This is also the first time that both our firsts teams are playing together in same season in north leagues! At home we have 10:30 Ladies 3s vs Canalside Terriers 1 Read more…
Most of you will be up to speed with the pre season plans for the hockey club with fitness training, summer league and the eagerly awaited September fixtures where pre-season friendlies will be a chance to assess whether all that summer activity has paid off. There are also a couple of other events at AWMA that you may want to attend although perhaps the 2 events are somewhat counter-productive. Firstly, the annual beer festival organised Read more…
As we enter the 2nd week of the Ladies Hockey World Cup, many of you will be keenly following the progress of former Adel junior Suzy Petty (number 11) in the England midfield. Whilst Alex Danson, Maddy Hinch and the other Rio gold medallists grab the headlines, Suzy has put in some serious running in the midfield engine room when given pitch time and with the possibility of 4 games in the next 7 days Read more…
As the ladies summer league draws to a close, mixed and mens summer leagues get ready to do battle with the heat and the World Cup fixture list (hockey and football), some of our members are continuing their hockey playing activities away from Adel and travelling across Europe in the process. At one end of the scale we have 13 year old George Chaffer who began this season recovering from a broken leg and champing Read more…
You might think May and June are the quiet months for the hockey season but if anything they seem busier than the winter months from my experience. Since the end of season dinner there have been many developments and I wanted to sum these up in one article and ensure everyone is up to speed. Firstly, congratulations to all of our teams who finished top of their league and went to the YHA dinner on Read more…
Monday nights this time of the year tend to be 7-a-side half court pitches in the Adel summer league as a way of keeping up some off-season fitness and allowing everyone to catch up on the gossip over the last week. The biggest talking point this week was the need to wrap up the game as quickly as possible and rush home to see the start of the new series of Love Island (although I Read more…