What a season….!

For those of you wondering what its like to go to the England Hockey Awards evening as opposed to having to follow it via Twitter, as her last task in an official capacity before jetting off to Australia, an account of the evening and a summary of the ladies 1s overall season has been written by departing Ladies Club Captain and Midfield Maeastro, Helen Goacher. The England Hockey Awards evening in Reading had to be Read more

Wanted – bigger trophy cabinet….

After national recognition at the weekend for the ladies section at the England Hockey awards evening in Reading, the eagle eyed among you will have noticed that there is a congratulatory message on the Yorkshire Hockey Association website. If you did spot this (http://www.yorkshireha.org.uk/news.php ) then you might also have spotted that it makes reference to a further award which seems to have escaped everyone’s attention.  At the end of season Yorkshire Hockey dinner in May, Read more

The perfect ending?

For those of you who have missed the big sporting news from the weekend, and I don’t mean Mourinho to Manchester United or Jonny Bairstow winning the Test match for England on his home ground at Headingley, it was the England Hockey Award evening and dinner in Reading on Saturday night. After a long wait where lots of international players, coaches and umpires were rewarded for their respective success, the prizes for the club teams Read more

Team of the Year?

One day to go to the EH awards evening in Reading tomorrow where the invincibles from Leeds Adel Ladies first team will be well represented to see if they will win the EH Ladies Club Team of the Year award. After winning the league with a 100% record, and after squeezing through the tense play offs with a goal from a penalty corner after the full time whistle, plus a strong cup run in the Read more

County championships

This weekend sees the county championships take place at Wakefield for the ladies and Cannock for the men. Doing battle for Yorkshire will be one of our talented young players, Emma Bickley, which is a tremendous achievement for Emma and we all wish her well representing the white rose county over the weekend. As well as Emma on the playing side, Cheshire ladies have realised the quality of coaching at Adel and Sam Ransley and Read more