Notice is hereby given of the 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Nottinghamshire Hockey Association
The meeting will be held on Wednesday 27th April 2016, 7:15pm for 7:30pm
AT: Nottingham Hockey Centre (Upstairs Conference room)
Clubs are expected to send TWO voting members to this meeting.
The Agenda, Minutes of the previous AGM, officers reports and any other relevant papers will be placed in this post on the NHA website before the meeting.
Would clubs please forward any nomination for Executive posts (along with proposer and seconder details) to be received by the Secretary no later than 5pm on 13th April 2016.
Please note: Andy Smith and Giles Hulme are standing down from their respective posts, therefore there are currently vacancies for a Deputy Discipline Administrator and a representative to East Midlands Hockey Umpiring Association (EMHUA)
Please also forward any nominations for Honorary Life Membership of the Association by 15th April 2016, along with a brief explanation as to why you have nominated them.
Regards
Gareth Parr
Hon.Secretary
(Links will become active as reports become available)
Promotion for Nottinghamshire in last years County Championships means a new, tougher challenge for head coach Amo Soar and his new assistant James Hewitt.
The preliminary tournament will be held on 7th-8th May 2016 at Woking Hockey Club in Surrey.
Please can you pass this information on to all male players within your club and emphasise to those players likely to come along that, at the very least, the first two training sessions and selection are fully open to all, AND FREE.
This is a great opportunity to train alongside some different people to usual, maybe learn some new skills and challenge yourself.
With Notts clubs fairing well this season we are hoping to represent as diverse a spread of the County teams as possible.
The training/selection session dates for your diary are…..
Wednesday 6th April 7:30-9pm – Training & Trials OPEN TO ALL
Wednesday 13th April 7:30-9pm – Training & Trials OPEN TO ALL
Wednesday 20th April 7:30-9pm – TBC
Wednesday 27th April 7:30-9pm – TBC
Wednesday 4th May 7:30-9pm – TBC
(The TBC will likely be a squad practice match and final squad training – attendees will be informed)
All training is at Highfields on the Water.
Please arrive at 7:00pm to all of the sessions so we can maximise the pitch time.
As mentioned earlier, the preliminary tournament for entry into Finals day will be held at Woking Hockey Club on 7th – 8th May 2016. An overnight stay will be required and will be supported by the County Association.
If we finish in the top 2 of the group we will qualify for the Semi-Final / Final on Saturday 21st May (TBC) at Cannock HC.
To qualify to play for Nottinghamshire you must meet one of the following criteria;
Play for a Nottinghamshire affiliated club
Have played for Nottinghamshire previously and not played for another county since
Live in Nottinghamshire
Attend a School or University affiliated to Nottinghamshire
Have been born in Nottinghamshire
Criteria will be applied in the above order of preference.
All selected players will receive a NHA Polo shirt – Anyone can order additional kit from our on-line shop.
Please feel free to invite others along to the training sessions if they meet the above criteria.
Can we also ask that players e-mail gareth@nottshockey.org.uk so we have rough idea on our many players are coming.
All attending players should also fill out and print the attached Player Details Form and bring it with them when they attend. No player will be able to participate in the final squad without one!
You may be aware that Nottinghamshire County Council are consulting on their budget proposals and that it is currently live with consultation ending on 5 February 2016.
The details for the Sports Service team (currently seconded into the County Sports Partnership) are on the link below. In summary, the proposal is to reduce the current team of 6.6 posts by half starting 1 April 2017 and then to remove funding altogether from 1st April 2018.
As a key partner of Sport Nottinghamshire, we need your help to help make the case to retain the Nottinghamshire County Council sports service team. Please distribute this request through your networks and submit your views by the deadline of 5th February 2016. Views can be from individuals and organisations.
Although we fully appreciate the financial position Nottinghamshire County Council find themselves in, we are very concerned that a complete removal of the sports service team will have a hugely detrimental impact on the County. This would reduce our ability to perform a wide variety of important services, including supporting under-represented communities, attracting external income, developing new sporting programmes and supporting major events.
If you have any queries regarding this, please feel free to call any one of the team on 0115 848 3469.
Thank you for your support.
Kind regards,
Ken Pollard
On behalf of the Sport Nottinghamshire team.
The Sport Development Team at Clumber Park have been in post for a couple of months and are busy organising lots of different sporting offers to their visitors. Currently they are planning their summer holiday programme where they will be running informal, fun sport challenges one of which they hope to be hockey.
They’ve recently hosted a very successful tennis event (as part of a national partnership with the LTA). Coaches from local clubs came along to Clumber to promote their clubs and have chats with visitors whilst they made their way round 8 or so tennis challenges e.g. how many times can you bounce a ball, or how many forehands can you hit over the net etc. It was a really good fun event which over 200 people took part in. The LTA used this to promote their Great British Tennis Weekend.
They will be duplicating this format with a number of different sports and would like to have some local clubs along when they run their hockey activities? They would love to have coaches or club volunteers at the event just to mix in with the visitors and promote what their clubs offer (and maybe recruit some new members!).
They hope to run the event around 5-6 times over the 7 week holiday so there will be a range of dates which hopefully one or more might work for people.
If you’d like to get involved, please contact
Lucy Newbury (Lucy.Newbury@nationaltrust.org.uk)
National Trust Sport Development Officer
Clumber Park Estate Office, Blyth Road, Nr Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 3AZ
T: 01909 511015
@newbury_lucy
When : Sat 22 August
At : Ladybay Ground, West Bridgford, Nottingham
Start : 10am
Cost : £80 per squad of up to ten. ( 3 men 3 ladies and a GK on pitch at any time)
Bar open all day – and other refreshments
Hope to have Eurohockey on big screen in clubhouse too
Team will be expected to provide an umpire
Tournament organiser Lynne Morgan : 0115 965 4745/07801 011 320
On a sunny, but breezy, Saturday at Old Loughtonians Hockey Club in Essex, Nottinghamshire Hockey Association’s senior men’s County squad faced their sternest test of the last few season, a promotion battle into the second tier of England Hockey’s County Championships.
A strong squad by all accounts, but one that would only travel with 16 due to the last minute withdrawal of 2 players (one due to work commitments and one to a bereavement) Notts were confident going into their semi-final against Herefordshire.
Manny Soar forces the Herefordshire ‘keeping into a good save early on in their County Championships Semi Final
Notts started well and pinned Herefordshire deep in their own half for prolonged periods. Notts skipper, Adam Innocent, and Manny Soar forced Herefordshire’s goalkeeper into some smart saves early on, but it wasn’t until 2 minutes from half time when the sustained pressure paid dividends and Mark Northcott struck to put Notts ahead.
Notts’ skipper, Adam Innocent, scores Notts 5th v Herefordshire
With the winner of this game guaranteed promotion, Notts forged ahead in the second half and made their possession count. A converted Penalty Stroke by Sam Dixon and a fine finish by Adam Henfry saw Notts 3 ahead. Herefordshire tried forcing themselves back into the game and pulled a goal back from a Penalty Corner with 8 minutes to go, only for Nortcott to double his tally and restore Notts 3 goal lead just 2 minutes later. Hereford scored another with 5 minutes to go to raise their hopes, only to have them dashed by a double strike by Notts skipper Innocent. The first a rifling strike from the top of the D into the bottom corner and the second a cheeky lob to the far post which the Herefordshire ‘keeper could only watch helplessly. Final score Notts 6 v 2 Herefordshire and on to the final at 3pm.
With Notts primary aim of getting promoted into ‘B’ division confirmed it was a relaxed, but tiring squad that faced Surrey, returning after several years’ absence from the competition, in the ‘C’ division final.
Surrey were confident, having only conceded 3 goals in their last 5 games, but after several near misses when it looked easier to score, it was Notts who made it count first when Northcott finished from a clever Penalty Corner routine. Northcott struck again from an overtime Penalty Corner at the end of the first half to double his and Notts tally.
Notts ‘keeper, James Wakeland, and Matt Orridge concentrate through a crowd during a Surrey PC in the C Division Final
The second half started with a ding-dong battle. Sam Dixon extended Notts lead just 2 minutes into the second half only for Surrey to pull one back just 2 minutes later. Sixty seconds later Surrey scored again to reduce the deficit to one. Just 5 minutes passed before Notts Alex Davies finished calmly after some good work by Sam Dixon to restore Notts 2 goal advantage. But, as the short-handed Notts squad began to tire, Surrey started to get the upper hand. Surrey scored from a Penalty Corner and then from free play to bring the scores level. With 5 minutes left Surrey controversially took the lead and it was an exhausted Notts squad that conceded their 6th goal of the game with seconds remaining to lose 4-6.
After several seasons back in the competition Nottinghamshire now seem to have a stable core of squad players and will be looking to improve further in next year’s competition. For full details of Nottinghamshire Hockey Association news, including how you could get involved in hockey in the county, visit www.nottshockey.org.uk
Notts HA Squad – Promoted from C Division
Nottinghamshire Squad
Amo Soar – Head Coach
Phillip Rhodes – Assistant Coach (not present in photo)
Sara Parr – Manager
John Short – Boots HC
James Wakeland – Newark HC
Nathaniel Hammond – West Bridgford HC
Ben Docherty – Boots HC
Josh Dixon – Newark HC
Alex Whitt – Boots HC
Matt Orridge – Mansfield HC
Sam Dixon *Belper HC, England U16/U18
David Ebbage – South Nottingham HC
Henry Baldwin – West Bridgford HC
Luke Davies – Boots HC, South Africa U16/U18
Oliver Matharu – West Bridgford HC
Adam Henfry – Boots HC
James Hewitt – South Nottingham HC
Manny Soar – Boots HC
Mark Northcott – *Burton HC
Alex Davies – Newark HC
Adam Innocent – Boots HC
*Note the England Hockey County Championships is open to players of affiliated Clubs within the County, plus those born and/or living in the County.
Hockey for Heroes are a Charity organisation raising funds for Help for Heroes. The 2015challenge consists of one team of 26 players taking on 33 games of Hockey and the 3 Peaks Challenge over 10 days! (From Thursday 21st May – Saturday 30th May 2015).
The team will be in the East Midlands on Sunday 24th May 2015, at Nottingham Trent University (Clifton Campus). From 12 noon onwards, the games are:
12.00 – Game 10 – West Bridgford HC v H4H
14.00 – Game 11 – Boots HC v H4H
16.00 – Game 12 – Nottingham HC v H4H
18.00 – Game 13 – South Nottingham HC v H4H
Hockey for Heroes hope to raise over £30,000 for the Help for Heroes charity, and we would love to see as many of the Midlands hockey family coming down to show their support as possible. Please encourage your club members to attend.
Notice is hereby given of the 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Nottinghamshire Hockey Association
The meeting will be held on Wednesday 29th April 2014, 7:15pm for 7:30pm
AT: Highfields (Upstairs Conference room)
Clubs are invited to send TWO voting members to this meeting.
The Agenda, Minutes of the previous AGM, officers reports and any other relevant papers will be placed in this post on the NHA website before the meeting.
Please also forward any nominations for Honorary Life Membership of the Association by 15th April 2015, along with a brief explanation as to why they have been nominated.
Regards
Gareth Parr
Hon.Secretary
(Links will become active as reports become available)
It’s all change for the Nottinghamshire Men’s County side for the County Championships in 2015, with Amo Soar and Phil Rhodes taking on the head and assistant coach roles respectively.
The preliminary tournament will be held on 9th-10th May 2014 at the Dorcan Academy in Swindon.
Please can you pass this information on to all male players within your club and emphasise to those players likely to come along that, at the very least, the first two training sessions and selection are fully open to all, AND FREE.
This is a great opportunity to train alongside some different people to usual, maybe learn some new skills and maybe challenge yourself.
With Notts clubs fairing well this season we are hoping to represent as diverse a spread of the County teams as possible.
The training/selection session dates for your diary are…..
Tuesday 7th April 7-9pm – Training & Trials OPEN TO ALL
Tuesday 14th April 7-9pm – Training & Trials OPEN TO ALL
Wednesday 22nd April 7-9pm – Training & Trials OPEN TO ALL
Tuesday 28th April 7-9pm (may be 7:30-9:30pm TBC) – TBC
Wednesday 6th May 7-9pm – TBC
(The TBC will likely be a squad practice match and final squad training – attendees will be informed)
All training is at Highfields on the Water.
Please try to arrive 15 minutes early to all of the sessions so we can maximise the pitch time.
As mentioned earlier, the preliminary tournament for entry into Finals day will be held at the Dorcan Academy, Swindon on 9th – 10th May 2015. An overnight stay will be required and will be supported by the County Association.
If we finish in the top 2 of the group we will qualify for the Semi-Final / Final on Saturday 30th May at Old Loughtonians, where another overnight stay is probable and, if necessary, as before, will be supported by the Association.
To qualify to play for Nottinghamshire you must meet one of the following criteria;
Play for a Nottinghamshire affiliated club
Live in Nottinghamshire
Attend a School or University affiliated to Nottinghamshire
Have been born in Nottinghamshire
Criteria will be applied in the above order of preference.
Please feel free to invite others along to the training sessions if they meet the above criteria.
Can we also ask that players e-mail gareth@nottshockey.org.uk so we have rough idea on our many players are coming.
All attending players should also fill out and print the attached Player Details Form and bring it with them when they attend. No player will be able to participate in the final squad without one!
Following on from the appointment of Amo Soar and Phillip Rhodes as the coaching team, Nottinghamshire Hockey Association are inviting applications for the post of;
Senior Men’s County Manager
This is an ideal opportunity to assist in the county squads tournament organisation and administration.
Initially, the role will include informing potential players of trials and coaching sessions and inviting potentially suitable players along.
Then, as well as liaising with Tournament Directors and Tournament Officials you will also be required to attend tournament meetings, pass on relevant rules and regulations info to coach and players, assist in pitch side paperwork and ensure (as far as practical) player eligibility.
Depending on experience, the manager may also have some input into the squad selection process.
Please respond, to the Nottinghamshire Hockey Association secretary, Gareth Parr via email – gareth@nottshockey.org.uk by 27th March 2015.
Interviews, if necessary, will take place in early April 2015.
