Archive for September, 2006

No U16 training this sunday, however training on 8th October.

So after an exciting tournament in Germany for the men where a fantastic performance saw England finish 5th an improvement of 6 places on their world ranking it is now the turn of the Women to push back with the Samsung Women’s Hockey World Cup 2006. This tournament is taking place in Madrid, friends [...]

What a start to the season.  Reading travelled to Eastcote on Saturday with the knowledge that in last years trip Reading ended on the wrong side of an 8-1 scoreline.  This year, with a good influx of new players, Reading started brightly when Holly Rabys good run ended with her firing the ball from the [...]

Reading Hockey Club have made an agreement with The University of Reading to assist them with their Hockey Scholarship programme. Hockey is currently one of the focus sports at the university’s SportsPark. As part of the agreement our Mens and Ladies coaching teams will be involved in the selection/award process. With a [...]

EHL National Cup Round 1
Sunday 24th September 2006
Epsom 1 Reading 7
Alison Pope, Emma Thomas (2), Erin Ruxton, Alex Smith, Claire Kerr, Emily Malden
Reading Ladies played their second game of the weekend with their cup opener against South Premier side Epsom on Sunday. Buoyed by a successful league opener the girls arriver at Therfield school [...]

Slazenger EHL Division 2 South
Saturday 23rd September 2006
Reading 3 Bournemouth 0
Claire Kerr 1, Emma Thomas 1
It was a winning start to their EHL campaign for this season as Reading Ladies 1XI secured a comfortable victory over newly promoted Bournemouth. There were some familiar faces on the Bournemouth side as former coach Dave Rutherford and [...]

This year’s Berkshire Cup was again held as a tournament, a one day event
on a glorious late summer’s day at Braywick, Maidenhead.
The day started brightly for Performance Director Downer, as he failed to
keep down the pint of water he had just necked after waking up. Still
completely ship faced from Titch’s leaving party the night before, [...]

The venue for the Eurohockey Mens Club Championship 2007 is HC Bloemendaal the team who beat Reading to win the Eurohockey Cup Winners Cup 2006 held at Sonning Lane over Easter this year. We look forward to seeing many of our Dutch friends again and hopefully taking gold on their turf this time!
The [...]

2 goals from Simon Mantell helped England secure a nail biting 4-3 win against New Zealand this morning to give them a guaranteed top 6 placing.  A brilliant result and improvement on their 11th placed FIH ranking. 
Mantell converted a PC on the stroke of half time to take the England boys into the break 2-1.  Glenn Kirkham [...]

It will be Australia v Korea and Germany v Spain in the World Cup semi-finals. A draw between the top two in Pool B saw Champions Trophy winner The Netherlands left to play for a 5-8 spot as Korea are perhaps the only surprise package in the semis line up. A fine 3-1 [...]