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About |
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Edinburgh University Hockey Club is one of the largest clubs the University has to offer. With 7 men teams and 8 women teams, this club caters for a massive range of abilities. One of the key things about the club is achievement, but it isn't everything, with one of the best active social lives of any of the Edinburgh clubs. You will often find us all in the pub after a days hard work on the hockey field.
Pitch side
We train at the National Scottish Hockey Academy pitches at Peffermill (see directions), which is home to two great water-based astroturf pitches. But what makes the club is the excellent training we are subjected to, with fully qualified hockey coaches, including the coach of the Women's Great British Olympic team, Dennis Hay, who coached his team to Olympic bronze.
Which team is for me...
We cater for a huge variety of players. With our 1s competing in National 1 League against international players all the way to our 8s who compete in East District Division 2. As a club we hope that there will be a team for you, that will provide you with relevant coaching to improve your hockey.
With training sessions throughout the week, and matches taking place on Wednesday, for SUCS and BUCS, and Saturday for all the other leagues, there is plenty to get your nails into. We play in a wide range of leagues which allows all of teams to play other teams at or around the same skill level as them.
If you fancy trying your hand at some coaching or umpiring, the club provides you with opportunities to participate in coaching and umpiring courses. We pride ourselves in having a vast array of excellent umpires at our disposal, however we are always looking for more, as without umpires... we can't play games! So we're really keen to find people who love wearing yellow and can blow a whistle really loud!
This all sounds a bit serious to me...
We are always striving to be one of the highest achieving clubs in Edinburgh, but this doesn't detract from the social side of the club. We have regular social events like Pub Golf and Mummies and Daddies. There are also Christmas and team meals to enjoy. Koko is our new sponsor for the 2010/2011 season and is where most teams will frequent after games for drinks and match teas on both Wednesdays and Saturdays! It is a great way to meet other members of the club across our eight teams as well as members from the men's hockey club. Every year we go on a Hockey Tour to a different venue, where we put our hockey and drinking skills to the test. As well as this there is an annual hockey ball in a posh hotel for everybody to show off their gladrags!
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