Archives for the ‘About Hockey’ Category

Argentina Update

By Reading Hockey Club • Feb 3rd, 2012 • Category: About Hockey, Events, Home Page, News

Reading Ladies are featuring prominently in the success of the GB side playing in the Champions Trophy in Argentina, with 6 from the Ding in the squad. Details of the tournament, results and match reports so far, including their semi-final win against Korea are on the GB hockey website. You can follow their progress live [...]



LEAD COACH – Adult & Junior Hockey

By Reading Hockey Club • Jul 5th, 2011 • Category: About Hockey, News

Reading Hockey Club is one of the leading clubs in the country with the ambition to be a pre-eminent European club. Currently the Club has 11 Men’s and 7 Women’s teams and a thriving Junior section with 400 players. Our plan is to create a centre of excellence for club, university and school hockey. A [...]



Playing Updates

By Reading Hockey Club • Apr 4th, 2011 • Category: About Hockey, Home Page, Match Reports, News

Club Captains Johnny Downer and Sue Newman have summarised the season so far as it comes towards an end. Click for reports on Men’s and Ladies’ sections respectively…



Men’s Section Update

By Reading Hockey Club • Apr 4th, 2011 • Category: About Hockey, Match Reports, News

From Club Captain Johnny Downer… I don’t want to spoil my end of season report which is announced at the end of season awards dinner (make sure you have your ticket for an excellent night on April 30th!) – so this update is brief and to the point: The Men’s 1s have faced a tough [...]



Ladies Section Update

By Reading Hockey Club • Apr 4th, 2011 • Category: About Hockey, Match Reports, News

From Club Captain Sue Newman… The season is not quite over for the Ladies Section; a mixture of catch up games due to snow postponement and, excitingly, EH playoffs for our 1st XI. With their International players away on duty for a large portion of the season leading up to the Christmas break, the Ladies [...]



EHB Youth Panel

By Reading Hockey Club • Mar 12th, 2011 • Category: About Hockey, News

The England Hockey Board National Youth Panel (NYP) comprises nine young people aged between 17 and 22 years.  They are tasked with assisting the delivery of a number of high profile hockey events and tournaments in the national programme including the SuperSixes, the National Mini Hockey Finals and home based Junior Internationals etc.  EHB are [...]



Spot the Rustler

By Reading Hockey Club • Mar 3rd, 2011 • Category: About Hockey, News, Rustlers


A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity!

By Reading Hockey Club • Nov 28th, 2010 • Category: About Hockey, News

The call has gone out for London 2012 Ball Patrol – anyone aged between 18 and 25 on 1st January 2011 who has a working knowledge of hockey is invited to enter a BALLOT to get put on the longlist of potential Ball Patrol Squad Members – the deadline is December13th…  We’re hoping to have [...]



Jonty’s Melbourne Update

By Reading Hockey Club • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: About Hockey, Home Page, M1

Before we came out to Melbourne the Australians invited us to join in with Movember, a campaign to raise money for Prostate cancer and mens health by growing a moustache throughout November. Obviously, we accepted the challenge readily and apointed our two Movember captains in the shape of our two ‘net minders’ Nick Brothers and [...]



Cup Semi Final v Bowdon

By Reading Hockey Club • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: About Hockey, Events, Home Page, News

The men face Bowdon in the semi final of the National KO Cup on Saturday 3rd May 2008. We are hoping that a number of members will be making the trip ‘up north’ with the team to watch the semi-final action on 3rd May. Bowdon have organised extra parking, on-site catering and extra bars, so [...]