StickforLife World Record Attempt & NE14HOCKEY 7-a-side Field Hockey Festival - August 27th to 30th 2010, Peterborough

Why not come and be part of history and send a team to the StickforLife World Record Attempt & NE14HOCKEY 7-a-side Field Hockey Festival - August 27th to 30th 2010, in Peterborough.

The progress for the 2010 World Record Attempt & Sevens Festival is coming along nicely. Team confirmations are coming in for the 7's festival including a team all the way from Germany. Entry this year is £140 which includes a evening entertainment on the Friday and Saturday nights.

The event dates are the 27th to the 30th of August (Friday to Monday)

The event is taking place in Peterborough, and coincides with the 32nd Peterborough Cambra bear festival running from the Tuesday to the Saturday.

We will be running a BBQ onsite from Friday afternoon till Sunday afternoon offering bacon rolls for breakfast and the usual burgers and hotdogs throughout the weekend.

The venue is also a 2 minute drive from a Mc Donald’s and a large Sainsbury’s which also has a Fish and Chip shop, a Boots Chemist and several cash points if BBQ's aren't your thing.

The World Record attempt will start at Midday on the Friday and will finish on the Saturday night. The Festival will run on the Saturday, Sunday for mens and mixed and possibly on the Monday (depending on interest from teams).

Free camping is limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

We're also looking for shirt sponsors with packages costing from £200 per shirt. Limited to 32 and 6 have already been sold. Sponsors include, Little Tigers Day Nursery and KPMG.

Visit http://www.stickforlife.co.uk/ for more details.

Scottish Hockey Assistant Development Officers

Nine Assistant Development Officers, employed through the Future Jobs Fund Programme, will start this week at National Sports Centre in Largs

Scottish Hockey is to employ the 500th Future Jobs Fund employee and they will be one of these Nine Assistant Hockey Development Officers.

The Under Secretary for State for Scotland, Anne McKechnie, will attend on Thursday, whilst the new staff is undertaking their first aid training.

Scottish Hockey have received praise for the innovation and drive to get the project moving and being able to recruit and employ nine quality people at once.

The employees have a range of experience, with one currently representing Scotland at U21 level.

Ben Glencross, Development Manager said “This opportunity has helped hockey and the young people involved. We aim to develop their skills and confidence through working with a range of people, to allow them to take those skills and find further employment, whilst at the same time promoting and increasing participation in hockey.”

Once trained the coaches will work at local level, which will provide stronger links with our clubs.

Colleen Reid, Coach Education Development Manager and Steven Percy, Youth Development Officer will be at Largs this week supervising their training.

Further information of the role of Assistant Development Officers;

They will compete a UKCC level 1 coaching course, Child Protection Training and First Aid training.

They will then be deployed back to their local authority to support the delivery of hockey in the area. This will strengthen hockey’s links with the clubs in the area.

They will work with existing development staff to deliver hockey, organize activities, run festivals and promote hockey.

GB Women Help Sport Relief

Members of the Great Britain women’s hockey team rose to the challenge of supporting Sport Relief on Tuesday as they dribbled their way to the fastest mile with a hockey stick and ball in a time of four minutes and four seconds, smashing their target of Svetlana Masterkova’s one mile track record of four minutes 12 seconds.

The six participating squad members, Reading’s Laura Bartlett, Alex Danson and Emily Maguire and Leicester’s Crista Cullen, Hannah MacLeod and Kerry Williams - ‘dribbled’ the mile in a relay format in an exact time of four minutes, four seconds and 87 milliseconds.

The Sport Relief ‘Stick and Ball Mile’ took place during the squad’s training session at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre in Buckinghamshire and was filmed for the BBC’s South Today programme.

Cheered on by their watching Great Britain teammates, each member of the group ran one half of the pitch per shuttle before passing the ball on to the next athlete. In total they ran 17.6 lengths of the pitch.

Defender Crista Cullen explained afterwards why the squad had been so keen to take part: “We’re at a very exciting stage of our preparations ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games in London and it is nice to be able to take part in Sport Relief to benefit the young people of this country and others around the world, many of whom will hopefully be inspired by the Olympics.”

Forward Alex Danson added, “It was great fun doing the Sport Relief Mile in our own unique way. We were ecstatic to break the world record but more importantly we are so happy we had the opportunity to do our small bit for such a great charity like Sports Relief. It shows how anyone can take part and have a lot of fun, but best of all, it doesn’t have to just involve running!”

You can rise to your challenge by entering the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile on 21 March. Just 60 miles north of Bisham Abbey NSC, Milton Keynes is playing host to one of the largest Sport Relief Miles in the UK, with other Miles happening all over the UK. To find and enter your nearest Mile visit Sportrelief.com

Irish Hockey Local Lotto

The Irish Hockey Local Lotto which was launched just under 2 weeks ago has proved popular with the hockey public with over 100 people signing up to play in just 13 days.

The hockey local lotto was set up to provide the association and teams with a fun and simple way to fundraise. The lottery players also get to choose exactly where their money and support is channelled and they make this decision when they sign up to play, for example they can select senior women, u16 boys or grass roots and development" the choice is entirely up to them.

The lottery starts off with a Jackpot prize of 1,000 euro and if you match all four numbers the cash prize is yours! Also to ensure there is a winner every week the IHA will also choose two lucky dip winners to collect 20 euros each. The first draw for the Lottery will be made on the last day of the ESB & Men’s Senior Interpros on Sunday 28th March in grange road and there after the lottery will be done on a weekly basis every Tuesday starting from Tuesday 6th April.

So if you want to be in with a chance to scoop a 1000 Euro and support your favourite Irish hockey team go to Irish Hockey now!

2010 World Cup - Day 10 + Semi-final Draw

In the first game of the day Germany comfortably overcame New Zealand 5-2 and went to the top of the group. The Netherlands then knew a draw would do and this perhaps made them a little tentative. In any case Korea won a close affair 2-1 and a couple of more goals for Korea would have put out the Dutch on goal difference.

As it is Germany will play England and Australia will play Netherlands in the semi finals of the competition on Thursday. Tomorrow is a rest day

Germany 5 v 2 New Zealand HT 2-0 | 2015-03-09 16:35
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Netherlands 1 v 2 South Korea HT 1-1 | 2015-03-09 18:35
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Canada 2 v 3 Argentina HT 0-1 | 2015-03-09 20:35
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2010 World Cup - England book Semi-final place

England made it 4 from 4 today when they beat hosts India in the last match of the day. Earlier Australia beat Spain and look certain to fill the other semi final spot as they have the best goal difference in the group by far. If England fail to beat Spain and OZ win their last match then they will qualify as top of the group.

Australia 2 v 0 Spain 2010-03-06 16:35
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South Africa 4 v 3 Pakistan 2010-03-06 18:35
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England 3 v 2 India HT 1-0 | 2010-03-06 20:35
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Spot the Ball Competition - Week 10

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Week 10 is now open!

Don't forget the previous 9 weeks which are also still open!

Spot the Ball Competition - Week 9

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Week 9 is now open!

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Spot the Ball Competition - Week 8

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Week 8 is now open!

Don't forget the previous 7 weeks which are also still open!

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SealSkinz Spot the Ball - 6 Weeks Now Open

Week 6 is now open - the first 5 weeks are all still open which gives you 6 chances to win waterproof sports gear (socks, gloves or hats) suitable for field hockey, football, rugby, golf or watching from the stands.

PC Field Hockey Game - First Animation

We are proud to announce the first animation for the PC Field Hockey Game. PCFHG located on the PCFHG website:

http://www.fieldhockeygame.co.uk/videos/

Argentina makes Qualifier final for 2010 World Cup

The last day of pool play at the BDO Hockey World Cup Qualifier in Quilmes saw the Czech Republic defeat Chile, the USA forcing Belgium to a draw, and Argentina securing their place in the final with an easy win over Ireland.

Czech Republic 2 v 1 Chile HT 2-0 | 2009-11-21 11:05
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Belgium 3 v 3 USA HT 1-0 | 2009-11-21 13:05
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Ireland 0 v 4 Argentina HT 0-3 | 2009-11-21 15:05
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Irelands chances of reaching the World Cup in New Delhi in March 2010 were dashed this afternoon after they were defeated 4-0 by Argentina in Quilmes, Buenos Aires. However the score-line does not reflect a game in which they played hard and never gave up. Ireland opened well in the first 10 minutes, retaining possession, good two touch hockey and controlled movement but once again by line defence let them down in the 12th minute when the Argentines slipped past 2 defenders for a tap in from close range. Argentina took a 2-0 lead in the 18th minute with a well taken penalty corner just inside the right post and went 3-0 ahead in the 23rd minute from a deflected penalty corner. Half-Time: Ireland 0  Argentina 3 Ireland regained composure in the second half and were unlucky not to reduce the deficit in the early stages. Argentina were a awarded a penalty stroke in the 49th minute when a forward was alleged to have been fouled on a goal scoring opportunity. The stroke was calmly taken to make it 4-0 Ireland played the remainder of the match all out with every player giving 100% effort but it was to no avail. Ireland finish on equal points with Czech Republic but with a +8 goal difference and will play them tomorrow for third place. The match will start at 1505 hrs (Irish time) tomorrow.

Todays final games are as follows.

Chile v USA 2009-11-22 09:35
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Ireland v Czech Republic 2009-11-22 09:35
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Argentina v Belgium 2009-11-22 14:35
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Ireland, Belgium & Argentina stay unbeaten at the last 2010 World Cup Qualifier

Chile 1 v 4 Ireland HT 1-0 | 2009-11-15 11:05
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Belgium 9 v 0 Czech Republic HT 3-0 | 2009-11-15 13:05
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USA 1 v 6 Argentina HT 0-4 | 2009-11-15 15:05
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On the second day or play at the BDO Hockey World Cup Qualifier in Argentina, Ireland wrestled down Chile, Belgium dispatched the Czech Republic, and Argentina booked a win against the USA. All day one winners thus booked their second consecutive victory, thereby neatly splitting the table in two.

The day started off with the encounter between Chile and Ireland. As yesterday, Chile went into the game overflowing with their can-do attitude, and they were rewarded midway through the first half with a goal from Thomas Kannegiesser. Subsequently, an open battle with few chances on either side ensued.

Holding on to their lead unil the end of the first half, Chile received the first blow to their plans for points when Alan Sothern scored a field goal shortly after the return from the break. Building on his euqalizer, the Red Devils pulled ahead with ten minutes to go at the hands of John Jermyn, while Alan Sothern added two goals in the last three minutes of the match to complete his second half hattrick and establish the 4:1 end result - a disappointing scoreline for Chile who as on day one have put down a solid effort and pulled ahead with an early goal only to see the tables turned on them for a 1:4 defeat.

Report Courtesy of World Hockey. For further deatils visit World Hockey