We are delighted to say that we are tentatively getting back into hockey! England Hockey has released guidance on how this can be done in a safe way.
We look forward to seeing our team mates and welcoming new members - please get in touch if you’d like to join us!
Come down and join us for a friendly knock-around at Ashmole Academy over the summer period before our season starts in September.
We love seeing new faces, so come along and get involved! The sessions will run on the following dates from 8-9pm:
25th June
9th July
23rd July
6th August
20th August
The Facebook event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1118066598381362/
Congratulations to the players from Hendon & Mill Hill and Southgate HC who took 5th place at the Women's Over 50s Summer Championships at Nottingham Hockey Centre on Sunday 9th June.
News article from England Hockey:
Fourteen clubs from across the country descended on Nottingham Hockey Centre on Sunday 9 June for the inaugural Womens’ Over 50s Summer Championships.
With a seven-a-side format, the morning’s play saw teams divided into 4 pools Bedford, Bretforton, Dewsbury Kirklees and Redland Pool A, Canterbury, North Notts, Kingston upon Hull and Westberries Elderberries Pool B, Sevenoaks, Stratford and Timperley Pool C and Southgate, St Albans and Winscombe in Pool D. After the round robin matches new pools were formed for the afternoon session with the top two from each morning pool progressing into the Championship and the remaining teams into a plate group.
Winscombe came out on top of the six team plate group and it was good to see all teams secure at least a point.
Dewsbury, Timperley, Kingston and Southgate played Pool E with Dewsbury and Timperley wiinning 2 games each and drawing the game against each other, Dewsbury progressing to the gold medal match by 1 goal. Pool F between Canterbury, St Albans Redland and Sevenoaks was an even tighter affair with Canterbury, Redland and Sevenoaks finishing on equal points, with Redland coming out on top.
The final was a very tight affair, with Dewsbury converting a penalty corner in the last minute to take the title, over Redland. In the bronze medal game Timperley beat Canterbury 2-1.
There was very positive feedback from teams and they were grateful too to the local umpires who officiated on the day.
On Saturday 13th April we gathered at the Pineapple pub in Kentish Town to celebrate the 2018/19 season. Alongside food, quizzes and speeches we paid tribute to our former club captain Theresa D’Abreu who sadly lost her battle to cancer at the beginning of the 2018/19 season.
The award winners on the night were as follows:
Top Goal Scorer - Caroline Hunt
Most Improved Player - Tyla Thackwray
Players’ Player (1st Team) - JoJo Anderson
Players’ Player (2nd Team) - Laura Smith
We also introduced a new award this season, the Theresa D’Abreu award for the player who has gone above & beyond for the club, the first recipient of this award was Caroline Hunt.
Congratulations to all our award winners!
A friend of the club created an illustrated map of all the Ladies Middlesex hockey clubs, it has each of the Middlesex ladies league club logos illustrated on it in the respective parts of London and the clubs are surrounded with illustrations of some local London landmarks.
If you look closely there's one extra club "medallion" on there with a "T" and a green ribbon in - this was added to pay respect to Theresa D'Abreu - Hendon & Mill Hill's former club captain who died in October last year. We had a flood of messages from other clubs including condolences and well wishes which was lovely, we truly felt the love from the hockey family, thanks to all the clubs who reached out.
If you would like a copy of the print, the artist is selling A3 sized (unframed) copies for £20 (+ p&p), with 20% of the proceeds going to Theresa's nominated charity, the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust - https://aclt.org/
If you could share this message with anyone in your club (past & present) who would interested, that would be highly appreciated.
If you'd like to order one please email hmhhockey@gmail.com and we’ll send payment details and can answer any other questions.
Check out Claire’s TedX talk about life after a cancer diagnosis - we’re so proud of her for speaking out about her experience. We’re very lucky to have her as a member of our club - inspirational!
